When Mary Lou Williams arrived at Duke in 1977 as the University’s first artist-in-residence, she was already an icon in the ...

(1)St. Martin De Porres 6:32 (M.L.Williams, A.S. Woods), (2)It Ain't Necessarily So 4:41 (G. & I. Gershwin), (3) The Devil 4:00 (MLW, Ada Moore), (4)Miss D.D. 2:28 (MLW), (5)Anima Christi 2:40 (MLW), ...

The spirit of the Lou is back in its West Campus home. Supporters and devotees of the Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture who had waited nearly two years for the gathering place to reopen ...

student Hamida-Jackson Little suggested naming the center after Mary Lou Williams. Jackson-Little, who graduated from Duke in 1983 and is now a lawyer in Atlanta, recalls taking a class taught by ...