Mary Lou Williams, often described as the first lady of jazz, will have her final piece of work debuted at Duke University after it was recently discovered and finished by Anthony Kelley, a professor of the practice of music at Duke University.
As WUNC reports, Williams’ influence on the jazz genre can be felt through the work of Thelonious Monk and Dizzy Gillespie, whom she influenced.
Her last known work, “History: A Wind Symphony,” which was unfinished when she died in 1981, had been considered a lost work until Williams found her notes.
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