1910
Mary Lou Williams, American pianist and composer (died 1981)
Mary Lou Williams, American pianist and composer (died 1981)
Mary Lou Williams, American pianist and composer (died 1981)
Mary Lou Williams
American jazz pianist and composer (1910–1981)
- Born
- 1910
Mary Lou Williams was an American jazz pianist, arranger, and composer. She wrote hundreds of compositions and arrangements and recorded more than one hundred records. Williams wrote and arranged for Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman, and she was friend, mentor, and teacher to Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Tadd Dameron, Bud Powell, and Dizzy Gillespie.