The Baddest Female Drummers, Percussionists & Bandleaders
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Nneka Samuel
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Mary Lou Williams
A self-taught pianist and arranger, Mary Lou Williams not only wrote her own genre-bending music, but she also wrote and arranged for musicians like Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman and mentored greats like Miles Davis and Charlie Parker. One of jazz’s greatest musicians, she was one of the first women to found her own label, Mary Records.
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