Mary Lou Retton, the first American woman to win Olympic all-around gold in gymnastics, was arrested May 17.

Born Mary Elfrieda Scruggs in Atlanta on May 8, 1910, Mary Lou Williams was one of the most influential jazz musicians in the history of the American art form. Equally gifted as a pianist, composer, ...

When Mary Lou Williams arrived at Duke in 1977 as the University’s first artist-in-residence, she was already an icon in the jazz world, having earned monikers like “The First Lady of Jazz ...

During a trip to Europe in 1953, accomplished 20th-century jazz pianist and composer Mary Lou Williams was exhausted, emotionally drained, and facing financial peril when a friend took her to a small ...

The full name of the piece references Mary Lou Williams, a jazz pianist, writer and composer who, like Wilson and Bearden, was from a family that moved from the American South to Pittsburgh.

Courtesy of Seven Oaks Funeral Home Mary Lou Murphy Lassen Williams, 91, of Water Valley, Mississippi, passed away peacefully in her sleep at home on Wednesday afternoon, September 18, 2024. Mary ...

With viral obit, local music matriarch Mary Lou Westerberg gets her due The mother of Replacements rocker Paul Westerberg and DJ Mary Lucia lived for the Twins.

Mary Lou Williams, an icon of swing jazz, left an unfinished work when she died in 1981. Now Duke will debut a completed composition on April 13.

Jazz musician Mary Lou Williams and Louisa Crane were united in their dream of a better world, full of good deeds and great music.

New World Symphony honors legendary pianist and composer Mary Lou Williams with the help of Miami-born singer and composer Carmen Lundy.

Chicago trumpeter and bandleader Orbert Davis wrote ‘Women Out of Time’ to confront a long-vexing inequity in jazz: Women such as Nina Simone and Mary Lou Williams were promoted as singers ...