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unusual facts about Mary Lou Williams



Bill Coleman

After a sojourn to Cairo, Egypt, Coleman returned to the U.S. in March 1940, and worked throughout the 1940s with a variety of top groups including bands led by Benny Carter (1940), Teddy Wilson (1940-41), Andy Kirk (1941-42), Ellis Larkins (1943), Mary Lou Williams (1944), John Kirby (1945), Sy Oliver (1946-47), and Billy Kyle (1947-48).

Brooklyn Jazz Hall of Fame and Museum

Members of the Brooklyn Jazz Hall of Fame include: Hubie Blake, Cal Massey, C. Scoby Stroman, Ahmed Abdul-Malik, Joe Carroll, Carmen McRae, Betty Carter, Noel Pointer, Betty Roché, Art Blakey, Kenny Durham, Hazel Scott, Mary Lou Williams, Roland Alexander, Cecil Payne and Max Roach.

Jack Fallon

Fallon worked in the 1950s as an accompanist to Mary Lou Williams, Sarah Vaughan, and Lena Horne, and also served as a sideman in the ensembles of Humphrey Lyttelton, Kenny Baker, and Ralph Sharon.

Ronnie Boykins

In the course of his career, Boykins also worked with Mary Lou Williams, Marion Brown, Sarah Vaughan, and Daoud Haroom, among others.

Sonny Dallas

Moving to New York in 1955, he began performing and recording with the likes of Sal Salvador, Tony Scott, Chet Baker and Buck Clayton, Lee Konitz, Warne Marsh, Phil Woods, Gene Quill, Zoot Sims, Al Cohn, Elvin Jones, Mary Lou Williams, Bill Evans, George Wallington, Jackie Paris and Lennie Tristano, with whom he was most closely associated.


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