{"product_id":"soul-on-soul-9780252043604","title":"Soul on Soul","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFirst time in paperback and e-book!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The jazz musician-composer-arranger Mary Lou Williams spent her sixty-year career working in—and stretching beyond—a dizzying range of musical styles. Her integration of classical music into her works helped expand jazz''s compositional language. Her generosity made her a valued friend and mentor to the likes of Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, and Dizzy Gillespie. Her late-in-life flowering of faith saw her embrace a spiritual jazz oriented toward advancing the civil rights struggle and helping wounded souls. \u003cp\u003eTammy L. Kernodle details Williams''s life in music against the backdrop of controversies over women''s place in jazz and bitter arguments over the music''s evolution. Williams repeatedly asserted her artistic and personal independence to carve out a place despite widespread bafflement that a woman exhibited such genius. Embracing Williams''s contradictions and complexities, Kernodle also explores a personal li\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Recommended.\" --\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Diligently chronicles the life and times of the extraordinary innovator.\"--\u003ci\u003eJazz Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Kernodle’s \u003ci\u003eSoul on Soul\u003c\/i\u003e serves as an essential text, working to set the record straight on one of the genre’s most significant—and conspicuously ignored—composers.\" --\u003ci\u003eDownBeat\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The music and life of Mary Lou Williams and [this] admirable biographie ought to be required material in American history, music, and women’s studies courses. Maybe then the jazz Williams created will receive the universal embrace it deserves.\" --\u003ci\u003eWomen's Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400449794391,"sku":"9780252043604","price":87.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252043604.jpg?v=1730470712","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/soul-on-soul-9780252043604","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}