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Mary Lou Williams : the lady who swings the band
- Title
- Mary Lou Williams : the lady who swings the band / directed by Carol Bash.
- Publication
- [Larchmont, New York] : Paradox Films, [2015]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | DVD | Use in library | Sc DVD-2553 | Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound |
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- Additional Authors
- Found In
- African Diaspora International Film Festival collection
- Description
- 1 videodisc (68 min.) : sound, black & white, with color sequences; 4 3/4 in.
- Summary
- Documentary of Pittsburgh-born jazz pianist/composer/arranger, Mary Lou Williams. As a pianist, arranger, and composer, she helped to shape the sound of 20th-century America, and managed to re-define herself with every passing decade.
- Uniform Title
- Lady who swings the band.
- African Diaspora International Film Festival collection.
- Subjects
- Women jazz musicians
- Pianists
- Arrangers (Musicians)
- Women composers
- Filmed performances
- Biographical films
- Documentary films
- Biographies
- United States
- Williams, Mary Lou, 1910-1981
- African American jazz musicians > Biography
- Women jazz musicians > United States > Biography
- Pianists > United States > Biography
- Arrangers (Musicians) > United States > Biography
- African American composers > Biography
- Women composers > United States > Biography
- Genre/Form
- Documentary films.
- Biographical films.
- Filmed performances.
- Biographies.
- Note
- "She fought to create in a world that could not see past her race or gender"--Cover.
- Credits (note)
- Producer, Carol Bash. Sandra Christie, film editor. Cinematographers, Robert Shepard, James Richards, Michael Chin, Sumi Tonooka. Composer (original score). Wycliffe Gordon, musical director. Paradox Films presents a co-production of ITVS in association with the National Black Programming Consortium .
- Commentary by Tammy Kernodle, Farah Griffen, Stanley Crouch, Gary Giddens, Robert O'Meally, and others.
- Linking Entry (note)
- Forms part of the African Diaspora International Film Festival collection.
- Call Number
- Sc DVD-2553
- LCCN
- 885007671985
- OCLC
- 1052672501
- Title
- Mary Lou Williams : the lady who swings the band / directed by Carol Bash.
- Publisher
- [Larchmont, New York] : Paradox Films, [2015]
- Type of Content
- two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
- video
- Type of Carrier
- videodisc
- Performer
- Voices: Alfre Woodard (as the voice of Mary Lou Williams), Wendell Pierce, and Delroy Lindo.
- Credits
- Producer, Carol Bash. Sandra Christie, film editor. Cinematographers, Robert Shepard, James Richards, Michael Chin, Sumi Tonooka. Composer (original score). Wycliffe Gordon, musical director. Paradox Films presents a co-production of ITVS in association with the National Black Programming Consortium .Commentary by Tammy Kernodle, Farah Griffen, Stanley Crouch, Gary Giddens, Robert O'Meally, and others.
- Linking Entry
- Forms part of the African Diaspora International Film Festival collection.
- Added Author
- Woodard, Alfre, 1953- narrator.Lindo, Delroy, 1952- narrator.Williams, Mary Lou, 1910-1981.Paradox Films (Larchmont, N.Y.), production company.Independent Television Service, production company.National Black Programming Consortium, production company.
- Added Title
- Lady who swings the band.African Diaspora International Film Festival collection.
- Found In:
- African Diaspora International Film Festival collection
- Other Standard Identifier
- 885007671985
- Research Call Number
- Sc DVD-2553