She’s been at least intriguing since she first came on the scene as a fearless 27-year-old back in 2008, splashing new colors on the jazz skies with her crystalline intonation, oddball intervals, and ...

The talented all-female ensemble will play at St. Paul’s Mears Park as part of the Twin Cities Jazz Festival. Ten years after forming the Jazz Women All Stars, Patty Peterson and her ensemble of ...

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 ...

‘I would sing in public, and everyone would be like, “She’s got the voice of a divorced woman in the body of a 13-year-old girl,”’ says singer-songwriter Laufey Lín Jónsdóttir (Gemma Warren) Words of ...

It’s been a good year for jazz, diverse in every way—styles, influences, tastes, and demographics too. I didn’t aim the list to turn out this way, but four of the albums’ leaders are women, and five ...

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 ...

Long overlooked in the annals of jazz history, women were not just muses or vocalists—they were creators, innovators, and fearless pioneers of a genre that continues to pulse with their legacy.

RED BANK, NJ — This Thursday, the non-profit organization Jazz Arts Project will launch its “Summer of Jazz” festival with a performance by the Grace Fox Big Band. Led by the "trailblazing trumpeter" ...

It started with handwritten original big band music and a love of jazz. Sara Vaas went home to Ohio in 2021 and came back with a handful of compositions by her grandfather, a jazz musician who played ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Known as the “Queen of Gospel,” Mahalia Jackson needs no introduction. Countless award-winning gospel, blues, soul and jazz singers cite her as one of their key influences. Over the course of her ...