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Additional authors

1. Woodard, Alfre, 1953-
2. Lindo, Delroy, 1952-
3. Williams, Mary Lou, 1910-1981
4. Paradox Films (Larchmont, N.Y.), production company
5. Independent Television Service, production company
6. National Black Programming Consortium, production company

Found in

1. African Diaspora International Film Festival collection

Description

1. 1 videodisc (68 min.) : sound, black & white, with color sequences; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

1. Documentary of Pittsburgh-born jazz pianist/composer/arranger, Mary Lou Williams. As a pianist, arranger, and composer, she helped to shape the sound of 20th-century America, and managed to re-define herself with every passing decade.

Uniform title

1. Lady who swings the band.
2. African Diaspora International Film Festival collection.

Subject

1. Williams, Mary Lou, 1910-1981
2. Women composers -- United States -- Biography
3. African American composers -- Biography
4. Arrangers (Musicians) -- United States -- Biography
5. Pianists -- United States -- Biography
6. Women jazz musicians -- United States -- Biography
7. African American jazz musicians -- Biography
8. Women composers
9. African American composers
10. Arrangers (Musicians)
11. Pianists
12. Women jazz musicians
13. African American jazz musicians
14. United States

Genre/Form

1. Documentary films.
2. Biographical films.
3. Filmed performances.
4. Biographies.

Call number

1. Sc DVD-2553

Note

1. "She fought to create in a world that could not see past her race or gender"--Cover.

Credits (note)

1. Producer, Carol Bash. Sandra Christie, film editor. Cinematographers, Robert Shepard, James Richards, Michael Chin, Sumi Tonooka. Composer (original score). Wycliffe Gordon, musical director. Paradox Films presents a co-production of ITVS in association with the National Black Programming Consortium .
2. Commentary by Tammy Kernodle, Farah Griffen, Stanley Crouch, Gary Giddens, Robert O'Meally, and others.

Linking entry (note)

1. Forms part of the African Diaspora International Film Festival collection.

Title

1. Mary Lou Williams : the lady who swings the band / directed by Carol Bash.

Publisher

1. [Larchmont, New York] : Paradox Films, [2015]

Type of content

1. two-dimensional moving image

Type of medium

1. video

Type of carrier

1. videodisc

Performer

1. Voices: Alfre Woodard (as the voice of Mary Lou Williams), Wendell Pierce, and Delroy Lindo.

Credits

1. Producer, Carol Bash. Sandra Christie, film editor. Cinematographers, Robert Shepard, James Richards, Michael Chin, Sumi Tonooka. Composer (original score). Wycliffe Gordon, musical director. Paradox Films presents a co-production of ITVS in association with the National Black Programming Consortium .
2. Commentary by Tammy Kernodle, Farah Griffen, Stanley Crouch, Gary Giddens, Robert O'Meally, and others.

Linking entry

1. Forms part of the African Diaspora International Film Festival collection.

Added author

1. Woodard, Alfre, 1953- narrator.
2. Lindo, Delroy, 1952- narrator.
3. Williams, Mary Lou, 1910-1981.
4. Paradox Films (Larchmont, N.Y.), production company.
5. Independent Television Service, production company.
6. National Black Programming Consortium, production company.

Added title

1. Lady who swings the band.
2. African Diaspora International Film Festival collection.

Found in:

1. African Diaspora International Film Festival collection

Other standard identifier

1. 885007671985

Research call number

1. Sc DVD-2553