You are seeing–and hearing, if you click the audio button on the lower-right corner of the homepage–the musical stylings of Mary Lou Williams, often called the first lady of the jazz keyboard. Williams was a composer, arranger, and pianist who recorded more than 100 records, collaborating with the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, and Duke Ellington. She’s photographed here in 1943 by photographer Gjon Mili, who often hosted jazz jam sessions at his New York City studio.
Swinging into International Jazz Day
Today in History
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Hezké svátky
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Weaverbird nests at Kenya’s Samburu National Reserve
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Remembering Krakatoa
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At the shore of an inland sea
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An uncommonly cool critter
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Art in the chapel
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A palace for the public
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Great Backyard Bird Count
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Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
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A good time in the Badlands
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Wind Cave National Park celebrates 120 years
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A peek at an explosive peak
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Fallen but not forgotten
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America s Playground by Derrick Adams
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Corfe gets creepy
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National Public Lands Day
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Of moles and liquid nitrogen
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Thomsons gazelles, Maasai Mara, Kenya
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Mont-Saint-Michel
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2022 Winter Paralympics