Jazz trios and solos and sacred choruses with acc. of piano or jazz ensemble. All compositions by Mary Lou Williams except as noted. Mary Lou Williams, piano ; with, variously: Grant Green, guitar ; Budd Johnson, bass clarinet, tenor saxophone ; Jimmy Mitchell, vocal ; Theodore Cromwell, Percy Heath, Larry Gales, bass ; George Chamble, Tim Kennedy, Percy Brice, drums ; The Ray Charles Singers, Howard Roberts, conductor ; The George Gordon Singers. Recorded in New York City at Cue Studios and Nola Studios, Aug. 1962-Nov. 1963. Compact disc. Program notes by Eddie Meadows and Peter F. O'Brien (29 pages : illustrations) inserted in container.
Contents:
St. Martin de Porres (6:32) -- It ain't necessarily so / George and Ira Gershwin (4:41) -- The devil (4:00) -- Miss D.D. (2:28) -- Anima Christi (2:40) -- A grand night for swinging / Billy Taylor (2:48) -- My blue heaven / George Whiting and Walter Donaldson (3:06) -- Dirge blues (3:21) -- A fungus a mungus (2:57) -- Koolbonga (3:21) -- Forty-five degree angle / Denzil Best (2:50) -- Nicole (3:37) -- Chunka lunka (3:07) -- Praise the Lord (5:55).
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