Brunswick 7178 Mary Lou Williams Drag ‘Em/Night Life 1930
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Mary Lou Williams (1910-1981) was an Afro-American jazz pianist, composer and vocalist who, while still in her teens, got a job as a pianist with the Andy Kirk orchestra. She arranged music for both Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman and later mentored many of the modern jazz greats like Thelonius Monk and Dizzy Gillespie. This Brunswick is her first record, the piano solos “Drag ‘Em” and Night Life,” both recorded in Chicago on April 24, 1930. Wear, few light scratches, plays fine. Some label damage. Condition V/V+
NOTE: I grade records by a rating system that has been standard in the industry for decades. Still, it can be a subjective undertaking. I am more likely to grade by how the record reproduces aurally (I use a 78 Shure cartridge with a 1950s Voice of Music turntable that has been fit into a 1946 Magnavox Belvedere radio-phonograph) than by how it looks visually. Sometimes a record that appears substantially worn plays very well and sometimes the opposite is true.
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