A-one and a-two and a-you know what to do...!
Come on down and swing along with the best ragtime, stride, and jazz musicians in town.
Upper Terrace (at the base of the William Cullen Bryant Statue behind the New York Public Library)
Deanna Witkowski
Mary Lou Williams Biographer
Jazz Journalists Award for Biography of the Year (2022)
“Witkowski plays with muscular swagger.” - All About Jazz
Known for her adventurous, engaging music that heals the soul, pianist, composer, and author Deanna Witkowski moves with remarkable ease between Brazilian, jazz, classical, and sacred music. Her first book, Mary Lou Williams: Music for the Soul, is the winner of the 2022 Jazz Journalists Association Award for Biography of the Year. Her companion recording, Force of Nature, remained in the top ten most-played albums on jazz radio for more than ten weeks in 2022. Earlier this year she taught a six-week course on Mary Lou Williams for Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Swing U adult education program. Witkowski is a newly-minted PhD with her degree in jazz studies from the University of Pittsburgh.
Thank you for the music!
Many thanks to Sam Ash Music Stores for their support through the years.
