Videos: Trudy Pitts

Trudy Pitts wasn't as well known or as prolific as Shirley Scott, but the organist was a tasty player just the same. Sadly, she didn't record nearly enough, releasing just seven leadership albums starting in 1967 compared with Scott's several dozen albums beginning in the late 1950s. To be fair, Scott's recording career goes back even further, to the late 1940s, leaving Scott plenty of time to establish herself as a name player. Pitts came up in the late 1960s, when recording opportunities were drying up, especially for women in jazz. To read blogger Doug Payne's appreciation of Pitts after she died in 2010, go here. My brief appreciation is here. A special thanks to Andrew J. Sordoni III, who sent along a link to the first video below. I added a few:

Here's Trudy Pitts and her husband, Bill "Mr. C" Carney ...

Here's Part 1 of an interview with Pitts...

And here's Part2 of the Pitts interview...

Here's Pitts on piano...

Here's Pitts playing Amazing Grace...

And here's Pitts reinventing A Child Is Born...