[o] Other: Class Materials

Title: Mary Lou Williams [videorecording] : Music on My Mind / directed and edited by Joanne Burke ; produced by Joanne Burke and the Film and Video Workshop, Inc.
Published: New York, NY : Distributed by Women Make Movies, 1990.

1) How did Mary Lou Williams begin to play professionally as a child?

2) Who was the leader of the first big band that she played with?

3) What does she consider the most significant ages of "jazz?"

4) Why did she stop playing when she was living in Paris?

5) How did her music change after she returned from Paris to the United States?

6) Who were some of the musicians who came by her apartment to exchange musical ideas during the 40s?

7) What was the name of her suite of compositions that became the first symphonic "jazz" performed at Carnegie Hall during?