tracks

St. Martin De Porres
It Ain't Necessarily So
The Devil
Miss D.D.
Anima Christi
A Grand Night For Swinging
My Blue Heaven
Dirge Blues
A Fungus A Mungus
Koolbonga
Forty-Five Degree Angle
Nicole
Chunka Lunka
Praise The Lord

notes

Tracks 1-9 & 14 originally issued by Folkways Records in 1964 as 'Mary Lou Williams Presents' F 2843; all tracks recorded in New York City at Cue Studios and Nola Studios between August 1962 and November 1963. Tracks 10-13 previously unreleased.

Reissue compiled, annotated, and produced by Fr. Peter F. O'Brien, S.J., on behalf of the Mary Lou Williams Foundation.

℗© 2004 Smithsonian Folkway Recordings

credits

Bass – Larry Gales (tracks: 5, 14), Percy Heath (tracks: 6 to 8, 10 to 13), Theodore Cromwell, (tracks: 2, 4)
Bass Clarinet – Budd Johnson (tracks: 5)
Choir – The George Gordon Singers, (tracks: 5, 14), The Ray Charles Singers (tracks: 1, 3)
Compiled By, Liner Notes, Reissue Producer – Fr. Peter F. O'Brien, S.J.,
Conductor – Howard Roberts, (tracks: 1, 3)
Design, Layout – Sonya Cohen Cramer
Drums – George Chamble (tracks: 2, 4), Percy Brice (tracks: 5, 14), Tim Kennedy (tracks: 6 to 8, 10 to 13)
Guitar – Grant Green (tracks: 5, 14)
Liner Notes – Eddie Meadows
Liner Notes [Edited By] – Jacob Love
Mastered By – Pete Reiniger
Photography By – Carl Van Vechten, Chuck Stewart, Dennis Stock, Tom Caffrey
Piano – Mary Lou Williams
Reissue Producer [Production Managed By] – Mary Monseur
Reissue Producer [Production Supervised By] – Atesh Sonneborn, Daniel Sheehy
Tenor Saxophone – Budd Johnson (tracks: 14)
Vocals [Solo] – Jimmy Mitchell (tracks: 5, 14)

companies

Recorded At – Nola Recording Studios
Recorded At – Cue Studios (2)

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