WILLIAMS, MARY LOU Loving mother of Phil and Karen and devoted wife of Carl, passed away peacefully on December 4, 2011, at the age of 79. Born and raised in Michigan she made her home in Poway and ...

The title sounds like something from the fertile imagination of Charles Mingus. A blindfold listening test might throw up Sun Ra. "A Fungus Amungus," however, is Mary Lou Williams and nothing but.

In celebration of Con Chapman's 2023 book Kansas City Jazz: A Little Evil Will Do You Good, we spin a full-throttle hour of Kansas City jazz—saluting the sound, the swagger, and the city that helped ...

Mary Lou (Williams) Force passed away on October 20, 2025. She was born May 9th, 1936. Preceded in death by her father Horace, mother Grace, brothers Frank Arnold “Bus” Williams and Joseph Saunders ...

Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections. Please visit our website to learn more about submitting a request. The ...

Smithsonian Institution, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, 600 Maryland Ave., S.W., Suite 2001, Washington ...