Value Please - Mary Lou Williams & Group Featuring Leon Thomas

[Ady Potts]

Just digging in some of my boxes & found this. Mary Lou Williams & Group Featuring LEON THOMAS - YOU KNOW BABY /  PITTSBURGH - MARY. MINT-. Can't find it on popsike 

 

Any one know a current value please ?

 

 

 

[TheBigO]

Lst one I saw last year was at £300 Pottsy, haven't seen it listed for ages. Great belting toon btw

[Ady Potts]

Cheers Neil 

[pow wow mik]

I sold one for 300 about 6 years ago, might get a bit more for it now

[Godzilla]

I think there may have been a recent press of this

[Godzilla]

Yep.

https://www.juno.co.uk/products/mary-lou-group-you-know-baby-reissue/523163-01/

[Swifty]

Mary's got a bloody deep voice , I think I heard her busking on Canal Street ( we were lost , honest !!)

[Winsford Soul]

Never heard of her or her group.

Steve

[Sutty]

Mary Lou Williams was a very influential jazz pianist, not a vocalist, she ran an open house and taught Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker & Thelonious Monk amongst others. In the world of piano playing she was without doubt a genius.

 

She's made 100's of recordings including some really unusual albums including 'black Christ of the Andes' featuring a choir, and 'Mary Lou's Mass' featuring Carl Hall on vocals. Mary was her label. I've got a couple of 10" albums by her that are fantastic modal jazz trio pieces. I never knew about the 45 in this thread until a few years back and it sounds completely pants to me, and I'm not sure why Leon Thomas got involved either cos he's done loads of better stuff as well, but each to their own! Jazzman released a track each off the lp's mentioned above worth checking but they're jazz not um whatever the 45 here is ( sounds like something from a 50s strip movie to me lol)

 

Cheers Sutty

 

Edited September 18, 2014 by Sutty

[pow wow mik]

Mary Lou Williams was a very influential jazz pianist, not a vocalist, she ran an open house and taught Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker & Thelonious Monk amongst others. In the world of piano playing she was without doubt a genius.

 

She's made 100's of recordings including some really unusual albums including 'black Christ of the Andes' featuring a choir, and 'Mary Lou's Mass' featuring Carl Hall on vocals. Mary was her label. I've got a couple of 10" albums by her that are fantastic modal jazz trio pieces. I never knew about the 45 in this thread until a few years back and it sounds completely pants to me, and I'm not sure why Leon Thomas got involved either cos he's done loads of better stuff as well, but each to their own! Jazzman released a track each off the lp's mentioned above worth checking but they're jazz not um whatever the 45 here is ( sounds like something from a 50s strip movie to me lol)

 

Cheers Sutty

Appreciate your love for the amazing 'black christ...' lp, but 'you know baby' is r&b, you know, the popular black music of the time?

like lionel hampton, sun ra etc. good on her for branching out, she was obviously pretty hip, venturing into funk in the 60s too.

I dont think it's the best track; productions a bit tinny and that ending irritates but it's a pretty cool slab of jazzy r&b, early 60s would be my guess.]