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Piano Divas - Milestones Of Jazz Legends / Lil Hardin Armstrong, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Mary Lou Williams, Barbara Carroll, Nina Simone, Hadda Brooks, Jutta Hipp, Hazel Scott, and many more / Documents 10x Audio CD / 600534
UPC 4053796005342
Lillian Hardin Armstrong (née Hardin; February 3, 1898 – August 27, 1971) was a jazz pianist, composer, arranger, singer, and bandleader. She was the second wife of Louis Armstrong, with whom she collaborated on many recordings in the 1920s.
Her compositions include "Struttin' with Some Barbecue", "Don't Jive Me", "Two Deuces", "Knee Drops", "Doin' the Suzie-Q", "Just for a Thrill" (which was a hit when revived by Ray Charles in 1959), "Clip Joint", and "Bad Boy" (a hit for Ringo Starr in 1978). Armstrong was inducted into the Memphis Music Hall of Fame in 2014.
Toshiko Akiyoshi (秋吉敏子 or 穐吉敏子, Akiyoshi Toshiko, born 12 December 1929) is a Japanese-American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and bandleader.
She received fourteen Grammy Award nominations and was the first woman to win Best Arranger and Composer awards in Down Beat magazine's annual Readers' Poll. In 1984, she was the subject of the documentary Jazz Is My Native Language. In 1996, she published her autobiography, Life with Jazz, and in 2007 she was named an NEA Jazz Master by the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts.
Mary Lou Williams (born Mary Elfrieda Scruggs; May 8, 1910 – May 28, 1981) was an American jazz pianist, arranger, and composer. She wrote hundreds of compositions and arrangements and recorded more than one hundred records (in 78, 45, and LP versions). Williams wrote and arranged for Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman, and she was friend, mentor, and teacher to Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Tadd Dameron, Bud Powell, and Dizzy Gillespie.
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10 x CD, Box Set
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Tracklist:
CD 1
Lil Hardin Armstrong and her orchestra: Chicago - The Living Legends
Lil Hardin Armstrong and her orchestra
Hadda Brooks - The Queen Of The Boogie
CD 2
Mary Lou Williams plays in London
Mary Lou Williams / Barbara Carroll - Ladies In Jazz
CD 3
Barbara Carroll Trio - Barbara
Bess Bonnier Trio - Theme For The Tall One
CD 4
Marian McPartland - At The London House
Toshiko Akiyoshi - The Many Moods Of Toshiko
CD 5
Hazell Scott - Relaxed Piano Moods
Hazell Scott -Round Midnight
CD 6
Beryl Booker - A Girl Met A Piano & Bonus Tracks
Shirley Scott Plays The Duke
CD 7
Joyce Collins Trio - Girl Here Plays Mean Piano
Jutta Hipp - At The Hickory House Volume 2
CD 8
Elmo Hope - Hope-Full Solo Piano And Duo Piano With Bertha Hope
Joanne Grauer Trio
CD 9
Dorothy Donegan - At The Embers
Dorothy Donegan - Live!
CD 10
Nina Simone Sings Ellington!
Red Mitchell Feat. Lorraine Geller Presenting Red Mitchell
