New Recordings Revive James P. Johnson and Mary Lou Williams Rarities
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on September 8, 2023
This September, audiences will at last possess a more dynamic, more elegant — and just plain improved — sense of how New York City’s jazz and classical scenes converged in the 1940s.
Was eight decades a galling length of time to have waited? Naturally. But better late than never.
The belated occasion is because of a pair of new recordings. Each one has located and dusted off a holy grail artifact, dating from an era when Black composers . . .
