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Summary:

Documentary of Pittsburgh-born jazz pianist/composer/arranger, Mary Lou Williams. As a pianist, arranger, and composer, she helped to shape the sound of 20th-century America, and managed to re-define herself with every passing decade.

Table of Contents:

• Excerpts performed by Mary Lou Williams: Night life ; Clean pickin' ; Now cut loose ; Mary's idea ; Gjon mili jam session ; Nancy is in love with the colonel ; Scorpio (Zodiac suite) ; Credo (Mass)
• Lonely moments / performed by Geri Allen, Terri Lyne Carrington, and Esperanza Spalding.

Contributors:

Bash, Carol , film producer, film director

Christie, Sandra (Sandra Marie) , editor of moving image work

Woodard, Alfre, 1953- , narrator

Pierce, Wendell , narrator

Lindo, Delroy, 1952- , narrator

Williams, Mary Lou, 1910-1981

Allen, Geri , instrumentalist

Carrington, Terri Lyne , instrumentalist

Spalding, Esperanza, 1984- , instrumentalist

Gordon, Wycliffe , musical director

Tonooka, Sumi , composer

Paradox Films (Larchmont, N.Y.) , production company, publisher, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prn, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pbl

Independent Television Service , production company, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prn

National Black Programming Consortium , production company, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prn

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English
Translated from (original): English

Alternate Titles:

Lady who swings the band

Subjects:

Williams, Mary Lou, 1910-1981

Women composers — United States — Biography

African American composers — Biography

Arrangers (Musicians) — United States — Biography

Pianists — United States — Biography

Women jazz musicians — United States — Biography

African American jazz musicians — Biography

African American composers

African American jazz musicians

Arrangers (Musicians)

Pianists

Women composers

Women jazz musicians

United States

Genres:

Motion pictures

Biographical films

Biographies

Documentary films

Filmed performances

Nonfiction films

System Details:

DVD-R; Dolby Digital 2.0.
NOTICE: This is a DVD-R and may not play on all DVD players.

Performers:

Alfre Woodard (as the voice of Mary Lou Williams), Wendell Pierce, and Delroy Lindo ; commentary by Tammy Kernodle, Farah Griffen, Stanley Crouch, Gary Giddens, Robert O'Meally, and others.

Production Credits:

Stacey Holman, co-producer ; Stanley Nelson, executive producer ; original music by Sumi Tonooka ; Wycliffe Gordon, musical director ; edited by Sandra Christie.

General Notes:

Public performance rights included.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (70 min.) : sound, black and white, with color sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

Physical Characteristics:

4 3/4 in.; burning; monochrome; polychrome

Audio Characteristics:

digital; optical; stereo; Dolby Digital 2.0; sound

Film Characteristics:

wide screen

Digital Characteristics:

video file; DVD video

Call Numbers:

ML410.W7134 MAR 2015 DVD

OCLC Numbers:

953836194