Prologue Rarely had anyone seen Mel Karmazin so angry. Before him on his nearly bare desk, open to a page of dry statistical columns, lay the latest Arbitron ratings. They showed that WKTU, a station ...

Imagine a pianist playing concerts with Benny Goodman and Cecil Taylor in successive years (1977-78). That pianist was Mary Lou Williams. In a career which spanned over fifty years Mary was always on ...