From the Jazz at Lincoln Center Radio Archives:
Mary Lou Williams Centennial
Broadcast date:May 6, 2010
Pianist and composer Mary Lou Williams was always ahead of her era. In a fifty-year career, she changed with the times, but always kept her soulful style. A century after her birth, pianists Geri Allen, Geoffrey Keezer, and Dan Nimmer join the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra to honor the perpetually contemporary First Lady of Jazz. Wendell Pierce hosts.

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