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Mary Lou Williams — At Rick’s Café Americain — Storyville

by John Sunier | Aug 29, 2011 | Jazz CD Reviews

Williams was a prolific composer and arranger for Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman, a trusted artistic adviser to Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Miles Davis, as well as composer of a Catholic jazz mass.