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Our First Lady of Jazz: Celebrating Mary Lou Williams

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The Duke Chapel Choir joins forces with a host of guest artists to present “Our First Lady of Jazz,” a concert blending vocal jazz, gospel, spirituals, and the blues in a celebration of Black sacred music, featuring the works of Mary Lou Williams.

Williams was a composer and jazz pianist who taught at Duke University, and occasionally performed in the Chapel and with the Chapel Choir. She wr…