Women have always had a lot of the big names in jazz: Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald. These artists broke barriers in the male-dominated genre; the trails they blazed are carried forth ...
René Marie, vocals: Friday, Sept. 1, 6 p.m. and Sunday, Sept. 3, 8:30 p.m. Tia Fuller, saxophone: Friday, Sept. 1, 9:30 p.m. Akiko Tsuruga, B3 organ: Saturday, Sept ...
In celebration of Women's History Month, the American Jazz Museum is hosting the event Believe In: Women in Jazz. The fundraiser looks at some of jazz's biggest female artists and includes a ...
*Praise is pouring in from the Jazz community for the inaugural Jazz Music Awards, which had its broadcast premiere on January 1, 2024, on PBS Passport’s on-demand platform, as well as the nine PBS ...
The talented all-female ensemble will play at St. Paul’s Mears Park as part of the Twin Cities Jazz Festival. Ten years after forming the Jazz Women All Stars, Patty Peterson and her ensemble of ...
Leading Ladies: A Celebration of Women in Jazz honors the vital contributions of female jazz artists through a series of performances. The lineup includes acclaimed artists such as Jazzmeia Horn, CC + ...
Singer and pianist Julia Lee thrilled and scandalized audiences with her hits like “King Sized Papa” and “Snatch and Grab It.” From the "Queen of the Blues" to the irreplaceable Myra Taylor, learn ...
Visiting Detroit for the opening of "New Standards" — the Carr Center's multimedia exhibition celebrating women's contributions to jazz — legendary civil rights activist and scholar Angela Davis ...
Two guitarists, one bassist, one drummer, a cellist, a violinist, a saxophonist and two singers — that's nine incredibly talented musicians — make up the all-female band, Burst into Dames. This ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. At the end, everyone came out for a performance of “On the Sunny Side of the ...
This album is revealing. Of the 10 women jazz artists who have recorded for Concord Jazz, 8 ½ are vocalists. The full non-vocalist is Marian McPartland who plays piano, the other area of major ...
For too long, Black women composers and musicians have not received the recognition that they deserve. Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre and the Jazz Institute of Chicago are bringing some of them into the ...