The Mary Lou Williams Festival All-Star Quintet
Live at The Kennedy Center for The Performing Arts
Washington DC USA
2010-05-20
Part of the "Jazzset" series, hosted by Dee Dee Bridgewater.
Broadcast (2011-03-06) by 88.3 WBGO-FM, Newark, NJ USA.
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Track List:
01 - Radio Intro by Dee Dee Bridgewater (:42)
02 - Miss D.D. (M.L. Williams) (7:29)
03 - Pisces (M.L. Williams) (9:46)
04 - Interlude (:30)
05 - Background on the Players (1:35)
06 - What's Your Story Morning Glory (M.L. Williams/J. Lawrence/P.F. Webster) (5:18)
07 - If That's True (E. Spalding) (10:49)
08 - Dee Dee Intro (:27)
09 - Cotton Tail (E. "Duke" Ellington) (10:56)
10 - Happy Birthday to Dee Dee (:35)
11 - All Blues (M. Davis) (8:16)
12 - Outro by Dee Dee Bridgewater (1:08)
Total Running Time: 57:39
Personnel:
Grace Kelly - alto saxophone
Geri Allen - piano
Esperanza Spalding - bass
Terri Lyne Carrington - drums
Dee Dee Bridgewater - vocals
Info:
Grace Kelly:
http://www.gracekellymusic.com/default.aspx?matrix=1 (official site)
Geri Allen:
http://www.geriallen.com/ (official site)
Esperanza Spalding:
http://www.esperanzaspalding.com/ (official site)
Terri Lyne Carrington:
http://www.terrilynecarrington.net/ (official site)
Dee Dee Bridgewater
http://www.deedeebridgewater.com/ (official site)
The Kennedy Center Women in Jazz Festival 2010:
http://www.kennedy-center.org/programs/jazz/womeninjazz/
Radio Credits:
Thanks forever to the late Billy Taylor, founder of
The Mary Lou Williams Festival.
Kevin Struthers - The Director of Jazz, with Jean Thill
Location Recording - Greg Hartman and Big Mo
Assistant - Drew Doucette
Surround Sound remix by Duke Markos
Studio Engineer - Ginger Bruner
Producer - Becca Pulliam
Executive Producer - Thurston Briscoe III
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March 3, 2011
Calling them "stars" is putting it mildly. This amazing group delivered an exuberant,
committed, one-night-only concert at the 15th Annual Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz
Festival. Then, each — one by one — took off to fly higher and higher.
Alto saxophonist Grace Kelly is only 18. With NEA Jazz Master Phil Woods, who does not
suffer fools, Kelly recently released a new album called Man With the Hat. In this
group, Geri Allen takes Mary Lou Williams' seat at the piano. Allen is a professor at
the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and her CD Geri Allen & Timeline Live — one
of two albums she released last year — is up for the 2011 NAACP Image Award for
Outstanding Jazz Album.
Bassist Esperanza Spalding just won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist, a
history-making upset. Drummer Terri Lyne Carrington — who went to Japan with Spalding's
group immediately after Grammy night — teaches at Berklee College of Music, arranged
Williams' music for this group and split the role of festival emcee with vocalist and
JazzSet host Dee Dee Bridgewater. Bridgewater, by the way, is also a recent Grammy
winner for her album of music by and for Billie Holiday.
Half the music in this set is by Mary Lou Williams; last May, when this program was
taped, marked the centennial of her birth. Spalding contributes a tune, and the set
ends with a jam session on two standards: "Cotton Tail" and "All Blues." One by one
in "Cotton Tail," Bridgewater faces off with T.L.C., Allen and Spalding, and finally
coaxes Kelly out of the wings and into the zone. The group's extraordinary
improvisation provides the climax of the night.
Something extra happens before the soft landing of "All Blues." A hint: Candles were
burning, and Bridgewater was surprised.
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