Free Spirits (album)
{{Infobox album
| name = Free Spirits
| type = Album
| artist = Mary Lou Williams Trio
| cover = Free Spirits (album).jpg
| alt =
| released = 1976
| recorded = July 8, 1975
| venue =
| studio = C.I. Recording, NY
| genre = Jazz
| length = 68:19
| label = SteepleChase
SCS-1043
| producer = Nils Winther
| chronology = Mary Lou Williams
| prev_title = Zoning
| prev_year = 1974
| next_title = Live at the Cookery
| next_year = 1975
}}
Free Spirits is an album by pianist and composer Mary Lou Williams recorded in 1975 and released on the SteepleChase label in 1976.[https://ratical.org/MaryLouWilliams/MLWdiscography.html Mary Lou Williams discography], accessed January 13, 2017[http://www.jazzlists.com/SJ_Label_Steeplechase_1000.htm Jazzlists: Steeplechase Records 1000/31000 series discography], accessed January 13, 2017[http://steeplechase.dk/wordpress/mary-lou-williams-free-spirits-sccd-31043/ SteepleChase Productions ApS: album entry], accessed January 13, 2017
Reception
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = Allmusic
| rev2 = Penguin Guide to Jazz
}}
Allmusic said it "Includes great trio cuts".{{AllMusic|first=Ron|last=Wynn|class=album |id=mw0000405860 |title=Free Spirits – Review |accessdate=January 13, 2017}} The Penguin Guide to Jazz selected this album as part of its suggested Core Collection.{{cite book|last = Cook|first = Richard|author-link = Richard Cook (journalist)|author2=Brian Morton |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings|origyear = 1992|edition = 9th|series = The Penguin Guide to Jazz|year = 2008|publisher = Penguin|location = New York|isbn = 978-0-14-103401-0|pages = 1511|chapter = Mary Lou Williams}}[http://www.tomhull.com/ocston/nm/notes/pjazz-core.php Penguin Guide to Jazz: Core Collection List], January 13, 2017
Track listing
- "Dat Dere" (Bobby Timmons) – 4:48
- "Baby Man, #2" (John Stubblefield) – 7:56 Bonus track on CD reissue
- "Baby Man" (Stubblefield) – 8:31
- "All Blues" (Miles Davis) – 6:59
- "Temptation" (Nacio Herb Brown, Arthur Freed) – 5:08
- "Pale Blue" (Buster Williams) – 4:27
- "Free Spirits #2" (Stubblefield) – 5:04 Bonus track on CD reissue
- "Free Spirits" (Stubblefield) – 5:25
- "Blues for Timme" (Mary Lou Williams) – 5:37
- "Ode to Saint Cecile" (Mary Lou Williams) – 5:55 Bonus track on CD reissue
- "Surrey with the Fringe on Top" (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 2:58 Bonus track on CD reissue
- "Gloria" (Mary Lou Williams) – 5:31