Celebrating Mary Lou Williams–Live at Birdland New York is a live album by Trio 3, a jazz group consisting of saxophonist Oliver Lake, bassist Reggie Workman and drummer Andrew Cyrille.

One of the mainstays and redeeming traits of this live program relates to the musicians' inimitable styles amid their technical faculties and keen interpretative powers... these crafty musicians inject several nooks and crannies into the mix, their distinct voices elevating the core concept of this project, amid their shrewd plan of attack, to a higher realm.

"[4] Bill Shoemaker, writing for Point of Departure, commented: "Celebrating Mary Lou Williams is one of the better recordings of 2011 and is among the very best tribute albums of the past several years.

"[6] In a review for Jazzwise, Kevin Le Gendre stated: " The gig highlights the warm, leisurely, almost airborne quality of some of Williams' themes, several of which have subtle gospel implications that make for an almost sophisticated spiritual in places.

Lake is in particularly good form and his considerable variations of attack and timbre, from the evanescent and airy to the urgent and piercing, serve the range of moods well.