DESCRIPTION
On this album, Mary Lou Williams presents a history of jazz in speech and in music, from meditations on learning ragtime and blues as a child to performances of her own compositions, including "Night Life," which was captured on her first recording in 1930 and became a Kansas City classic.
Tracklist:
- Medi I (Modern Blues, Jazz)
- Medi I with Voiceover
- Anima Christi - Lord Have Mercy - a Spiritual
- Medi I with Voiceover
- Who Stole the Lock Off the Henhouse Door
- Medi I with Voiceover / My Mama Pinned a Rose on Me
- Swing Speech
- Kansas City Swing
- Hesitation Boogie 1
- Old Blues 1
- New Blues 1
- Speech / a Fungus a Mungus / Medi I
UPC: 093070286023
Label: Folkways Records
Release Date: 5.30.12
Format: CD
TRACK LIST
Tracklist:
- Medi I (Modern Blues, Jazz)
- Medi I with Voiceover
- Anima Christi - Lord Have Mercy - a Spiritual
- Medi I with Voiceover
- Who Stole the Lock Off the Henhouse Door
- Medi I with Voiceover / My Mama Pinned a Rose on Me
- Swing Speech
- Kansas City Swing
- Hesitation Boogie 1
- Old Blues 1
- New Blues 1
- Speech / a Fungus a Mungus / Medi I
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