# Mary Lou Williams played a boogie-woogie the duo launched into On Green Dolphin Street … Video, Photos

- Link: https://jazzblues.eu/2020/11/23/mary-lou-williams-played-a-boogie-woogie-the-duo-launched-into-on-green-dolphin-street-video-photos/
- Published: 2020-11-23T22:41:39+01:00
- Author: https://JazzBlues.EU

**On February 28, 1978, pianist Mary Lou Williams was at Les Mouches, a restaurant
and cabaret on New York’s 11th Avenue and 26th Street. **

She was joined by singer-electric bassist Carline Ray. After Williams played a boogie-
woogie the duo launched into _On Green Dolphin Street, I Can’t Get Started, My Blue
Heaven, Medi II, Over the Rainbow, St. Louis Blues,_ unknown, _Surrey With the Fringe
on Top_ and unknown.

As saxophonist Bill Kirchner notes:

[⌊Carline-Ray⌉⌊Carline-Ray⌉[
 _Carline Ray was the wife of bandleader Luis Russell
and the mother of singer Catherine Russell. A member of the International Sweethearts
of Rhythm in the 1940s, she played guitar as well as electric bass. She had a master’s
from the Manhattan School of Music and subbed for Junior Mance teaching at the New
School Jazz Program in New York. She died in 2013 at age 88._

[⌊Mary-lou-williams-tisherome-king⌉⌊Mary-lou-williams-tisherome-king⌉[
 A special thanks to Jim Eigo of Jazz Promo Services for sending along a **[link to a video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcLwQn9PDE4)** of the
Les Mouches performance, originally made for the Visiondisc Corp. that just went
up at YouTube…

![Screen Shot 2020-04-22 at 8.32.10 PM](https://marcmyers.typepad.com/.a/6a00e008dca1f08834025d9b491876200c-
500wi)

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