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 ...
Sometimes it can seem like the jazz world is a man's, man's, man's world (as James Brown would say), but there have always been excellent female musicians creating jazz on par with that of their male ...
This story about “The Woman King” composer Terence Blanchard first appeared in “The Race Begins” issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine. Terence Blanchard’s resume is full of big accomplishments: The jazz ...
In a directory of jazz venues in the metro area, Hey Nonny is on few fans’ shortlist. Heck, it may not even crack their long list. But in two short years, the downtown Arlington Heights venue has gone ...
AND VINE DISTRICT TODAY, BUT ONLY IN JAZZ AT NOON AT THE BLUE ROOM AT 18TH, AND BARNES. THE MELODY IN CELEBRATION OF JAZZ AND FOR SOME IN MEMORY OF ADAM MACBETH, PROBABLY ONE OF THE GREATEST ...
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 ...
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 ...
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