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Mary Lou Williams
Mary Lous Mass
Genres: Jazz, Pop

Track Listings (24) - Disc #1
1. Willis
2. O.W.
3. Praise the Lord
4. Old Time Spiritual
5. The Lord Says
6. Act of Contrition
7. Kyrie Eleison (Lord, Have Mercy)
8. Gloria
9. Medi I and Medi II
10. In His Day/Peace I Leave With You/Alleluia
11. Lazarus - Mary Lou Williams, Henry, Sonny
12. Credo
13. Credo [Instrumental]
14. Holy, Holy, Holy
15. Amen
16. Our Father
17. Lamb of God
18. It Is Always Spring - Mary Lou Williams, Thomas, Leon [1]
19. People in Trouble
20. One - Mary Lou Williams, Thomas, Leon [1]
21. Praise the Lord (Come Holy Spirit)
22. Jesus Is the Best - Mary Lou Williams, Virga, Thomas
23. Tell Him Not to Talk Too Long
24. I Have a Dream

CD Details

All Artists: Mary Lou Williams
Title: Mary Lous Mass
Members Wishing: 2
Total Copies: 0
Label: Smithsonian Folkways
Release Date: 2/22/2005
Genres: Jazz, Pop
Styles: Modern Postbebop, Swing Jazz, Traditional Jazz & Ragtime, Bebop
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 093074081525

Synopsis

Album Description

The long-awaited reissue of Mary Lou Williams's magnum opus of religious jazz: Mary Lou's Mass. Newsweek called the score "an encyclopedia of black music, richly represented from spirituals to bop to rock." This is Williams's "Music for Peace," a landmark recording which addressed many of the social ills of the 1960s and 70s. It is perhaps the most openly religious jazz recording made at that time. In her own words, it is "Music for the Soul." 32-page booklet, extensive notes, photos, 60 minutes.

CD Reviews

Classic

William R. Nicholas | Mahwah, NJ USA | 09/06/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Religous music is a style any jazz person can return to. Jazz has its roots in gospal, and everyone from Ray Charles to Archie Shepp had beginings and revisted the genre often, like a musical gas station.

Yet no artist approches this baliwick the same. Mary Lou William's take is outstanding. The music is soaked absoultely in the blues, but with its chiors and sterling playing, has the depth and sophistication of the highest music.

This album is highly advanced and highly listenable. It is rare that you will find music instinctive to like, but you will on Mary Lou's mass."