Morning Glory A Biography Of Mary Lou Williams.

Mary Lou Williams - pianist, arranger, composer, and probably the most influential woman in the history of jazz - receives the attention she has long deserved in the definitive biography by a leading scholar of women in jazz. The illegitimate child of an impoverished and indifferent mother, Williams began performing publicly at the age of seven when she became known admiringly in her native Pittsburgh as "the little piano girl of East Liberty," p...