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 ...

The country’s biggest Women’s Jazz Festival is set to return to Hey Nonny Jan. 7 through 11. It will be the third annual installment of the event at the Arlington Heights music venue and bistro.

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" ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...