Ekep Nkwelle will perform with Marilyn Maye and Catherine Russell at 92 NY July 20. Joining forces at 92NY’s annual “Jazz in July” series on July 20 will be Marilyn Maye, Catherine Russell and Ekep ...

When a friend told Judy Chaikin about a woman who claimed to be a big band drummer in the 1940s, the Los Angeles-based filmmaker at first didn’t believe her. From that initial conversation six years ...

If you Google “all-female jazz groups,” you’ll learn of the existence of ARTEMIS pretty quickly. The musicians attached have changed throughout the years, but the ensemble of women has always featured ...

Star jazz vocalist, Tammy McCann takes us on an unforgettable musical journey in celebration of the indelible mark left by female jazz musicians throughout history. The Encore Musical Theatre Company ...

The music industry has been blessed with numerous talented female singers across different genres such as rock, jazz, soul, ...

Close your eyes and imagine seeing a jazz band playing live. There’s a good chance you were imagining a group of men performing. Women jazz musicians are relatively rare. Denver based jazz pianist ...

As a woman in jazz and a formally trained student who studied jazz history, I knew that this was the case. When I got involved in this music in the 1990's and early 2000's I didn't see a lot of female ...

The members of the jazz ensemble Straight Ahead (L-R) are Alina Morr, Kymberli Wright, Marion Hayden, Ingrid Racine and Gayelynn McKinney. Next weekend, the Women in the Arts Festival will be back in ...

Jazz is a celebration of spontaneity—a genre for visionaries, risk-takers, and rebellious spirits who live in the moment. Nowhere is this spirit more embodied than in Monika Herzig’s Sheroes, an ...

Jazz Aspen Snowmass has partnered with the Colorado Conservatory for the Jazz Arts to bring a version of CCJA’s existing She-Bop jazz workshop to Carbondale on Oct. 18 and 19. This two-day jazz ...

We made a full immersion in the sounds of poems, words, structures, poetic forms; we read their stories and transformed them into melodies, into sonorous, liquid emotions, uniting our different ...