Live at the Keystone Korner

Artist: Mary Lou Williams
Label: Highnote
Category: Music

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Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 632375709723
EAN: 0632375709723
ASIN: B000068Q3E

Release Date: 2002-07-09

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Tracks:

Spoken Commentary by Mary Lou Williams
History of Jazz According to Mary Lou: Spiritual III/Fandangle/Old ...
Night in Tunisia
Jeep Is Jumpin'
It Ain't Necessarily So
Gloria
I Can't Get Started
Mary Lou's Blues
St. Louis Blues
Stormy Weather
Roll 'Em
'Round Midnight
Surrey With the Fringe on Top

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Customer Reviews:

The Piano Mother.......2006-02-22

I bought this cd because I already had an old LP version of Williams' solo recital from the Montreux Jazz Festival, 1978. This recording is even better, with Ms Williams working up a piano trio frenzy on blues, boogie woogie and standards, as well as some of her own tunes. The material is excellent, and the performance is tight, swinging, harmonically complex, and the whole thing maintains an incredible down-home feeling. Hearing this live recording makes me wish that I had been there myself...or that I had an extra grandmother this hip.

Swingin' stuff from Mary Lou.......2003-07-20

I first heard Mary Lou Williams when she did a guest spot in 1978 during Benny Goodman's 40th anniversary concert at Carnegie Hall. Her version of Roll 'Em (which she also wrote) was an incredible highlight of that evening. Since then I have purchased many of Williams' records and this is perhaps her best. She always sounded better live and her swingin' style was best showcased in front of a live audience. It's impossible to listen to her play and sit still. Just try it... it's not something the average person could do without going stark ravin' mad.

The versions here of such standards as Stormy Weather and St. Louis Blues have power, style and swing. Mary Lou's incredible jazz virtuosity at the piano is a total delight. Her thumping style will set toes tapping for as long as these discs keep spinning. The only clunker in the bunch is an uptempo version of Surrey with the Fringe On Top, a very curious selection for a jazz artist to choose. But aside from this small complaint, the rest of the album shines. Highly recommended addition to your jazz collection.

Excellent!.......2002-12-24

This is a great recording and a welcome surprise for me in 2002! Mary goes through the whole history of jazz in 13 tunes. You can hear spirituals, ragtime, Kansas City Swing and bop. If you want to know what swing is all about just listen to this recording. It's almost impossible to keep your head from swinging and bopping. I enjoyed her beautiful rendition of "It Ain't Necessarily So", a slow tune where you can really feel the blues. Her playing of "St. Louis Blues" is well worth the price of the CD, she tears the piano up. I wish I was there back in 1977.

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