Mary Lou Williams. Playing piano with A girl choir, New York, 1975

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Mary Lou Williams playing piano with a girl choir, New York, 1975.

Mary Lou Williams (by name Mary Elfrieda Scruggs) was an American jazz pianist, arranger, and composer. She wrote hundreds of compositions and arrangements and recorded more than one hundred records. A musical prodigy, at the age of two, she was able to pick out simple tunes and by the age of three, she was taught piano by her mother. She became a professional musician at the age of 15, citing Lovie Austin as her greatest influence. She married jazz saxophonist John Williams in november 1926.

b. May 8, 1910 in Atlanta, Georgia.
d. May 28, 1981 in Durham, North Carolina.

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