Mary Lou's Mass
ASIN: B0007727TS
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This CD is a 1970 papally commissioned "Jazz Mass," with seven previously unreleased tracks by pianist/composer Mary Lou Williams (1910-81). It was inspired by her conversion to Catholicism in the 1950s. Like her other work, Mary Lou Williams Presents: Black Christ of the Andes, her ebullient, blues-based piano lines brilliantly fuse jazz, R&B, Latin, and liturgical music. This mostly choral-based recording features vocalists Milton Grayson, Honi Gordon, French horn virtuoso David Amram, and percussionist Ralph McDonald. On "Praise the Lord (Come Holy Spirit)," Williams melds Psalms 148 and 150 with funky dance beats, while "Holy, Holy, Holy," swings with a bossa nova lilt. The spectral "Lamb of God," rings with a chilling Mingusonian air, and the CD closes with "Tell Him Not to Talk too Long," and "I Have a Dream," two hymns recorded in Rome, in memory of Martin Luther King, Jr. --Eugene Holley, Jr.
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The long-awaited reissue of Mary Lou Williams's magnum opus of religious jazz: Mary Lou's Mass. Newsweek called the score "an encyclopedia of black music, richly represented from spirituals to bop to rock." This is Williams's "Music for Peace," a landmark recording which addressed many of the social ills of the 1960s and 70s. It is perhaps the most openly religious jazz recording made at that time. In her own words, it is "Music for the Soul." 32-page booklet, extensive notes, photos, 60 minutes.
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This CD is a 1970 papally commissioned "Jazz Mass," with seven previously unreleased tracks by pianist/composer Mary Lou Williams (1910-81). It was inspired by her conversion to Catholicism in the 1950s. Like her other work, Mary Lou Williams Presents: Black Christ of the Andes, her ebullient, blues-based piano lines brilliantly fuse jazz, R&B, Latin, and liturgical music. This mostly choral-based recording features vocalists Milton Grayson, Honi Gordon, French horn virtuoso David Amram, and percussionist Ralph McDonald. On "Praise the Lord (Come Holy Spirit)," Williams melds Psalms 148 and 150 with funky dance beats, while "Holy, Holy, Holy," swings with a bossa nova lilt. The spectral "Lamb of God," rings with a chilling Mingusonian air, and the CD closes with "Tell Him Not to Talk too Long," and "I Have a Dream," two hymns recorded in Rome, in memory of Martin Luther King, Jr. --Eugene Holley, Jr.Album Description
The long-awaited reissue of Mary Lou Williams's magnum opus of religious jazz: Mary Lou's Mass. Newsweek called the score "an encyclopedia of black music, richly represented from spirituals to bop to rock." This is Williams's "Music for Peace," a landmark recording which addressed many of the social ills of the 1960s and 70s. It is perhaps the most openly religious jazz recording made at that time. In her own words, it is "Music for the Soul." 32-page booklet, extensive notes, photos, 60 minutes.Jazz Music: