Mary Lou Williams - The History of Jazz

2012 CD release. 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.

    1 Medi I (Modern Blues, Jazz)
    2 Medi I with Voiceover
    3 Anima Christi - Lord Have Mercy - a Spiritual
    4 Medi I with Voiceover
    5 Who Stole the Lock Off the Henhouse Door
    6 Medi I with Voiceover / My Mama Pinned a Rose on Me
    7 Swing Speech
    8 Kansas City Swing
    9 Hesitation Boogie
    10 Old Blues
    11 New Blues
    12 Speech / a Fungus a Mungus / Medi I