| LC control no. | n 82025133 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | ML417.W515 Biography |
| Personal name heading | Williams, Mary Lou, 1910-1981 |
| Variant(s) | Scruggs, Mary Elfrieda, 1910-1981 Winn, Mary Elfrieda, 1910-1981 Burleigh, Mary, 1910-1981 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Located | Pittsburgh (Pa.) Amherst (Mass.) Durham (N.C.) |
| Birth date | 1910-05-08 |
| Death date | 1981-05-28 |
| Place of birth | Atlanta (Ga.) |
| Place of death | Durham (N.C.) |
| Field of activity | Jazz Music |
| Affiliation | Bel Canto Foundation University of Massachusetts Amherst Duke University |
| Profession or occupation | Pianists Arrangers (Musicians) Composers Jazz musicians African American women musicians |
| Found in | Her Mary Lou Williams boogie-woogie piano transcriptions, 1943. Walker-Hill, H. Piano music by Black women composers, c1992 (Williams, Mary Lou; b. 5-8-1910, Atlanta, Ga.; d. 5-28-81; jazz pianist, arranger, and composer) New Grove dict. of jazz (Williams, Mary Lou (née Scruggs, Mary Elfrieda); b. May 8, 1910, Atlanta, d. May 28, 1981, Durham, NC; pianist and composer) Classic blues from Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, p2003: container (Mary Lou Williams) insert (born Mary Elfrieda Winn, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1910; died 1981; prolific composer and arranger; worked with Andy Kirk's Clouds of Joy and Duke Ellington) Dahl, Linda. Stormy weather, c1984: page 61-62 (Mary Lou Williams, née Mary Scruggs, also known as Mary Elfrieda Winn and when her mother remarried, as Mary Burleigh; born 1910 in Atlanta, Georgia; married baritone sax player John Williams in 1927; pianist, composer, and arranger) African American women, 1993: pages 558-559 (Mary Lou Williams; born in Atlanta, Ga. and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; founder of the Bel Canto Foundation in 1957 to assist jazz artists in rehabilitation from drug and alcohol abuse. Founded her own record company, Mary Records in part to support the Foundation. After her conversion to Roman Catholicism, she began to write masses and sacred works, best known of which is "Music for Peace", or "Mass for the Young or the Young Thinking" better known as "Mary Lou's Mass". Taught at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst 1975-1977 and at Duke University until her death.) |
| Associated language | eng |
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