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 ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - FEBRUARY 01: Terri Lyne Carrington performs during the Producers & Engineers Wing GRAMMY Week Celebration at The Village Studios on February 01, 2023 in Los Angeles, ...

To kick-off Women’s History Month, the Utah Jazz are sharing their plans to amplify the voices and contributions of women through a series of activations taking place during designated game nights at ...

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 ...

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 ...

For too long, Black women composers and musicians have not received the recognition that they deserve. Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre and the Jazz Institute of Chicago are bringing some of them into the ...

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 ...

The Utah Jazz unveiled today a dynamic lineup of events and activations that will celebrate the achievements and contributions of women throughout Women’s History Month. Fans can engage in programming ...

A jazz star since the 1940s, Anita O'Day was a singer like no other, combining the rhythmic chops of Ella Fitzgerald with the hard-knocks soul of Billie Holiday, and it's high time someone captured ...