''Free Spirits'' is an album by pianist and composer
Mary Lou Williams recorded in 1975 and released on the
SteepleChase
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label in 1976.
Reception
Allmusic
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said it "Includes great trio cuts".
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The Penguin Guide to Jazz'' selected this album as part of its suggested Core Collection.
January 13, 2017
Track listing
# "Dat Dere" ( Bobby Timmons) – 4:48
# "Baby Man, #2" (John Stubblefield
John Stubblefield (February 4, 1945 – July 4, 2005) was an American jazz saxophonist, flautist, and oboist.
Early life
Stubblefield was born and raised in Little Rock, Arkansas. He studied music at the Association for the Advancement of Crea ...
) – 7:56 Bonus track on CD reissue
# "Baby Man" (Stubblefield) – 8:31
# "All Blues
"All Blues" is a jazz composition by Miles Davis first appearing on the influential 1959 album ''Kind of Blue''. It is a twelve-bar blues in ; the chord sequence is that of a basic blues and made up entirely of seventh chords, with a VI in the t ...
" (Miles Davis
Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926September 28, 1991) was an American trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music. Davis adopted a variety of music ...
) – 6:59
# "Temptation
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" ( Nacio Herb Brown, Arthur Freed) – 5:08
# "Pale Blue" (Buster Williams) – 4:27
# "Free Spirits #2" (Stubblefield) – 5:04 Bonus track on CD reissue
# "Free Spirits" (Stubblefield) – 5:25
# "Blues for Timme" (Mary Lou Williams) – 5:37
# "Ode to Saint Cecile" (Mary Lou Williams) – 5:55 Bonus track on CD reissue
# "Surrey with the Fringe on Top
"The Surrey with the Fringe on Top" is a show tune from the 1943 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical ''Oklahoma!''. The piece was recorded in 1952 by jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal, which influenced trumpeter Miles Davis
Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, ...
" (Richard Rodgers
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, Oscar Hammerstein II
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) – 2:58 Bonus track on CD reissue
# "Gloria" (Mary Lou Williams) – 5:31
Personnel
* Mary Lou Williams – piano
The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...
*Buster Williams
Charles Anthony "Buster" Williams (born April 17, 1942) is an American jazz bassist. Williams is known for his membership in pianist Herbie Hancock's early 1970s group, working with guitarist Larry Coryell from the 1980s to present, working in th ...
– bass
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*Mickey Roker
Granville William "Mickey" Roker (September 3, 1932 – May 22, 2017) was an American jazz drummer.
Biography
Roker was born into extreme poverty in Miami to Granville (Sr.) and Willie Mae Roker. After his mother died (his father never lived wi ...
– drums
A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...
References
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1975 albums
Mary Lou Williams albums
SteepleChase Records albums