Mary Lou Williams: “The little piano girl of East Liberty”
Atlanta, Georgia, May 8, 1910 Durham, North Carolina, May 28, 1981 “You got to play, that’s all… working with men… you automatically become strong… though that doesn’t mean you’re not feminine.” Mary Lou Williams Mary Lou’s childhood and adolescence Mary Lou Williams, born Mary Elfrieda Scruggs, was a jazz pianist, composer, and arranger born in […]
