Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In celebration of Women’s History Month, the Columbus Jazz Orchestra will pay tribute to women who defined, expanded and elevated ...

To listen to the wild and vivifying art jazz of Paris-based Franco-American Eva Blanche is to hear music at a crossroads — a cross-genre reinvention that places the dramatic flair and sense of ...

From smoky clubs to sold-out arenas, Black women have been the heartbeat of jazz and blues for over a century. Today’s artists are blending tradition with bold new sounds, keeping the genres alive and ...

The Washington Women in Jazz Festival was born out of the necessity for more feminine representation in the genre. The festival’s founder, Amy K. Bormet, is a vocalist and pianist who noticed the lack ...

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation has announced the lineup and schedule for its 2020 free concert series, Chanteuse: Celebrating New Orleans Women in Music, as well as a Sync Up event. The ...

The talented all-female ensemble will play at St. Paul’s Mears Park as part of the Twin Cities Jazz Festival. MinnPost’s journalists are out in the community to report on the things that are happening ...

The fourth “Celebrating Women in Jazz” concert, produced by Chris “Big Dog” Davis, will be back by popular demand on Saturday at noon in the DoubleTree by Hilton Reading Grand Ballroom. Chris “Big Dog ...

“Griot Songs” is the project that composer Omar Thomas has wanted to do ever since he formed his Large Ensemble in 2008. It is a soul stirring, heady examination of how Thomas views his role as an ...

Oral historian Veronica Johnson discusses the Detroit Women in Jazz Oral History Project. Oral historian Veronica Johnson has partnered with the Detroit Sound Conservancy to create the Detroit Women ...