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 ...
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 ...
Voices honoring female jazz and blues legends Billie Holiday, Phyllis Hyman, Nancy Wilson and Bessie Smith drifted through Aretha's Jazz Café, in Detroit's Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts, ...
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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 ...
WITH US. A LOCAL LIVE MUSIC SERIES HAS A LOT TO CELEBRATE TODAY. SIREN SERIES. JAZZ IS HOLDING ITS THIRD BIRTHDAY SHOW TONIGHT AT FOOTNOTES COFFEE AND COCKTAILS, AND THE EVENT IS EVEN FREE TO ATTEND, ...
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 ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The Alabama Women in Jazz program will host ...
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 ...
For activists, maintaining momentum in the fight for social change sometimes leads to downplaying the victories they’ve attained. Acknowledging progress can feel like permission to ease up on the ...
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, ...
We are thrilled to present this series, not just to showcase the incredible talents of Japan's top female pianists, but also to celebrate the global language of jazz. This series highlights the ...