under-recognized Black female jazz performers and composers. Dr. Angela M. Wellman is an award-winning musician, scholar, educator, and activist. As a third-generation musician, Wellman has performed ...

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 ...

Reflecting upon her extraordinary 25-year career as one of Los Angeles’ premiere and most respected jazz producers, Barbara Brighton connects powerfully with—and continues to wholeheartedly embody—an ...

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 ...

photo - A celebrated saxophonist Joie Taylor has backed jazz stars like Delfayo Marsalis, Javon Jackson and Larry Coryell at Maui Jazz & Blues Festival shows. Courtesy photo Performing at the Maui ...

Emma Giulia (aka Emma Julia Feldhandler-Mugnaini or Emma Feld-Mugnaini) is a French Guitarist and Composer born in Paris in 1999. She started playing guitar at the age of 6 with blues/rock guitar ...

Before touching her lips to her trumpet mouthpiece and leaning into the opening notes of “Billie’s Bounce” by jazz legend Charlie Parker, Allie Molin issued an apology. It’s allergy season, she said, ...

Belle Noire: An Ode to Black Songstresses of Eras Past is a new theatrical concert which celebrates Black women vocalists from the early jazz era through the height of swing, including Lena Horne, ...

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