Mary Lou Williams Rutgers Interview Block 913 (Q13101)

I went through Rome but I had been to Rome -yes, I think that's when we put on the first jazz mass but it didn't really go through. They had newspapers out from everywhere, from all other countries and everywhere else, because there had never been a jazz mass in Rome. What they did, what really stopped it, the Italians like to be told what they're going to do but everybody was afraid to tell t ...