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The Legacy of Mary Lou Williams. The United States Army Field Band Jazz Ambassadors [Fort Meade, Md.], 2007.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 April 2010

E. Taylor Atkins
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Journal of the Society for American Music , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , May 2010 , pp. 261 - 263
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References

1 Mary Lou Williams and Cecil Taylor, Embraced (Pablo, 2620–108, 1977).

2 See, for instance, Marian McPartland, Plays the Music of Mary Lou Williams (Concord Jazz 4605, 1994); Dave Douglas, Soul on Soul: A Celebration of Mary Lou Williams (RCA Victor 63603, 2000); and the Mary Lou Williams Collective, Zodiac Suite Revisited (Mary 1, 2006).

3 Louis Armstrong, Ambassador Satch (Columbia C840, 1956; reissued on Columbia/Legacy 88697492022, 2009); and Louis Armstrong; Dave Brubeck; Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross; and Carmen McRae, The Real Ambassadors (Columbia 5850, 1962; reissued on Columbia/Legacy: 57663, 1994). von Eschen, Penny, Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004)Google Scholar provides the first full-length historical treatment of this complex story. See also Monson, Ingrid, Freedom Sounds: Civil Rights Call Out to Jazz and Africa (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), ch. 4CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and Atkins, E. Taylor, ed., Jazz Planet (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2003), xvii–xvixGoogle Scholar.

4 Tucker, Sherrie, Swing Shift: “All-Girl” Bands of the 1940s (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2001), 20Google Scholar.