MARY LOU WILLIAMS PRESENTS BLACK CHRIST OF ANDES

Mary Lou Williams, the "First Lady of Jazz," was an extraordinary pianist, composer, arranger, and master of blues, boogie woogie, stride, swing, and be-bop. Williams’ complex harmonies and brilliant phrasing, rooted in spirituals and blues, border on the avant-garde. Black Christ is both a powerful secular statement and a call to the divine. Duke Ellington said, "[She was] beyond category—a pianist who sums up in herself the full essence of jazz and expresses it with skill and perception that few other jazz musicians have even approached." Originally issued in 1964, this CD contains an additional 4 unreleased tracks, new extensive liner notes, and historic photos. 53 minutes.

1 St. Martin de Porres
2 It Ain't Necessarily So
3 The Devil
4 Miss D.D
5 Anima Christi
6 A Grand Night for Swingers
7 My Blue Heaven
8 Dirge Blues
9 A Fungus a Mungus
10 Koolbonga
11 Forty-Five Degree Angle
12 Nicole
13 Chunka Lunka
14 Praise the Lord