Back in the big band era, women on the bandstand played their roles as “girl singers,” not instrumentalists. Ella Fitzgerald got her start with the Chick Webb Orchestra. Sarah Vaughan worked with the ...

It is rare that a jazz musician is just a jazz musician. In order to survive you almost always have to have another gig, teach, or work in some auxiliary role to your music life. A musician who ...

For quite some time, people have bemoaned the fact that there are few women jazz artists. To some extent this claim has been true, amplified by the circumstance that many women jazz musicians have ...

On Friday, March 24 at 8 PM, Flushing Town Hall will present Octogenarian Women of Jazz during Women's History Month. Flutist/tenor saxophonist Carol Sudhalter, beloved as Flushing Town Hall's house ...

Tia Fuller, a badass saxophonist and former member of Beyoncé’s all-woman band, is one of the festival’s four headliners. MinnPost’s reporters work hard to bring you news about what’s happening in MN.

Jazz musician Isabel Udell ’19 said she’d like to see more women start playing jazz at Bowdoin and elsewhere, to set off a cascade. “You need more women to attract more women,” she said. So, she ...

Re: that last post from Friday, I actually drew up a first draft which started completely differently. I've modified and fleshed it out as a supplement to the women and jazz thoughtpiece. And yes, I ...

When FSU’s Opening Nights Performing Arts festival director Christopher Heacox first arrived in Tallahassee in 2013, one of the first meetings he had was with Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, FSU alumna, dance ...

The musicians wanted permission to go backstage and see what boy’s band was back there playing, see how this thing was done. ‘It was pantomime, they got to have a band back there,’ they said. ‘Ain't ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - One of the most fascinating things about music is discovering just what leads to its creation. In many works, the inspiration comes through in the lyric, and that's fine. Hey, I'm a ...

Because sometimes you're just craving worms, and you need to open up a new can. Assuming that it is an inherently good thing to promote female participation in jazz, a world which has historically ...