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On this album, Mary Lou Williams presents a history of jazz in speech and in music, from meditations on learning ragtime and blues as a child to performances of her own compositions, including InchNight Life,Inch which was captured on her first recording in 1930 and became a Kansas City classic. Album Tracks 1. Medi I (Modern Blues, Jazz) 2. Medi I with Voiceover 3. Anima Christi - Lord Have Mercy - a Spiritual 4. Medi I with Voiceover 5. Who Stole the Lock Off the Henhouse Door 6. Medi I with Voiceover / My Mama Pinned a Rose on Me 7. Swing Speech 8. Kansas City Swing 9. Hesitation Boogie 10. Old Blues 11. New Blues 12. Speech / a Fungus a Mungus / Medi I
