Monday Music: My Blue Heaven (Mary Lou Williams)

Read about jazz great Mary Lou Williams in Smithsonian's Folkways Magazine, Mary Lou Williams: Jazz for the Soul. From the article:

Mary Lou Williams lived and played through all the eras in the history of jazz: the spirituals, ragtime, the blues, Kansas City swing, boogie-woogie, bop or modern, and musics beyond—playing the new music of each era, a claim that is difficult to dispute. She had perfect pitch, was entirely self-taught (her mother had never allowed a teacher to interfere with her), and often as a child spent twelve hours at a stretch at the piano.

And here is Mary Lou Williams at the piano:

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