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Fall 2010
Mary Lou Williams
  • Mary Lou Williams: Jazz for the Soul
    Cover Story
    Mary Lou Williams: Jazz for the Soul

    The music poured from the piano. On a large platform inside the oval mahogany bar at New York’s Hickory House, the last surviving establishment offering jazz on West 52nd Street...

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  • ¡Y Que Viva Venezuela!
    video spotlight
    Eddy Marcano Discusses/Rehearses for ¡Y Que Viva Venezuela!

    While in rehearsals for the Smithsonian Folkways album ¡Y Que Viva Venezuela!, violinist Eddy Marcano discusses the influence of his maestro Alberto Valderrama.

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Published November 2010

  • Folkways Magazine is produced by the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage.

Special Thanks

  • Megan McShea
    Audiovisual Archivist, Archives of American Art Smithsonian Institution
  • Beth Blenz-Clucas
    BethPR

Mary Lou Williams Feature

  • Fr. Peter F. O’Brien, S.J., is a Roman Catholic priest and a member of The Society of Jesus (the Jesuits). He met Mary Lou Williams in 1964, when they became fast friends. He managed her musical career from the fall of 1970 until her death in 1981. He is now Executive Director of The Mary Lou Williams Foundation, which has two purposes: to advance the work of Mary Lou Williams and to bring jazz to children. He serves as a priest at Resurrection Parish in Jersey City, New Jersey.

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