Format: CD, Album, Reissue
Country: US
Released: 2004
Genre: Blues, World, & Country
Style: Blues, Ragtime
[Tracklist]
01 St. Martin De Porres (6:32)
02 It Ain't Necessarily So (4:41)
03 The Devil (4:00)
04 Miss D.D. (2:28)
05 Anima Christi (2:48)
06 A Grand Night For Swinging (3:06)
07 My Blue Heaven (3:21)
08 Dirge Blues (2:57)
09 A Fungus A Mungus (3:21)
10 Koolbonga (3:21)
11 Forty-Five Degree Angle (2:50)
12 Nicole (3:37)
13 Chunka Lunka (3:07)
14 Praise The Lord (5:55)
[Credits]
Mary Lou Williams (piano) Jimmy Mitchell (vocals) George Gordon Singers (choir) Ray Charles Singers (choir) Larry Gales (bass) Percy Heath (bass) Theodore Cromwell (bass) Budd Johnson (bass clarinet) Budd Johnson (tenor saxophone) Grant Green (guitar) George Chamble (drums) Percy Brice (drums) Tim Kennedy (drums)
Reissue Producer and Liner Notes: Fr. Peter F. O'Brien, S.J., Reissue Producer: Mary Monseur, Atesh Sonneborn and Daniel Sheehy, Liner Notes: Eddie Meadows and Jacob Love, Designer: Sonya Cohen Cramer, Photographer: Carl Van Vechten, Chuck Stewart, Dennis Stock and Tom Caffrey, Engineer: Pete Reiniger
[Notes]
Mary Lou Williams, the "First Lady of Jazz," was an extraordinary pianist, composer, arranger, and master of blues, boogie woogie, stride, swing, and be-bop. Williams' complex harmonies and brilliant phrasing, rooted in spirituals and blues, border on the avant-garde. Black Christ is both a powerful secular statement and a call to the divine. Duke Ellington said, "[She was] beyond category—a pianist who sums up in herself the full essence of jazz and expresses it with skill and perception that few other jazz musicians have even approached." Originally issued in 1964, this CD contains an additional 4 unreleased tracks, new extensive liner notes, and historic photos. 53 minutes.
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