How To Swing Like Mary Lou Williams (Featuring Helen Sung)

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How To Swing Like Mary Lou Williams (Featuring Helen Sung) with tags npr, npr music, national public radio, live, performance, helen sung, mary lou williams, roll em, piano, jazz piano, how to, how to play, swing piano, swing, turning the tables, jazz, cover, homage

Mary Lou Williams was a groundbreaking composer, arranger, performer and mentor. She was also known as "the lady who swings the band," thanks to her mastery of swing, "jazz's unique approach to rhythm," says Helen Sung. Sung is a renowned jazz pianist and award-winning composer who won the Mary Lou Williams Jazz Piano Competition in 2007. We asked her to explain what "swing" is and what makes it so central the sound of jazz, and to show us how to do it.