The First Lady of the Jazz Keyboard: Mary Lou Williams, 1972 & 1977 Fellow in Music Composition
We reached out to two Fellows whose admiration of Mary Lou Williams (1972 and 1977 Music Composition Fellow) is well-documented. Farah Jasmine Griffin, a 2021 Fellow in General Nonfiction who wrote the book Harlem Nocturne, said, “Mary Lou Williams’ gifts as composer, arranger, musician, mentor and humanitarian are so capacious we have yet to come