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 ...

Women have always had a lot of the big names in jazz: Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald. These artists broke barriers in the male-dominated genre; the trails they blazed are carried forth ...

LONG BEACH, Calif. (KABC) -- After 17 years of touring internationally, Jazz in Pink will have a full-circle moment when it plays Long Beach this weekend. The all-female jazz ensemble from Los Angeles ...

If you Google “all-female jazz groups,” you’ll learn of the existence of ARTEMIS pretty quickly. The musicians attached have changed throughout the years, but the ensemble of women has always featured ...

Virtuoso drummer Sherrie Maricle leads The DIVA Jazz Orchestra, an ensemble of 15 versatile women musicians about whom it has been said, “If there were still big band cutting sessions, DIVA would ...

Two guitarists, one bassist, one drummer, a cellist, a violinist, a saxophonist and two singers — that's nine incredibly talented musicians — make up the all-female band, Burst into Dames. This ...

In celebration of Women's History Month, the American Jazz Museum is hosting the event Believe In: Women in Jazz. The fundraiser looks at some of jazz's biggest female artists and includes a ...

It's not every day that audiences get to experience a six-piece, all-female jazz ensemble, but get ready for it when the Shake 'Em Up Jazz Band takes the Dew Drop Jazz Hall stage on April 20 and ...

Last year, a group of female and non-binary jazz musicians founded the We Have Voice Collective, an organization that aims to “foster awareness, inclusion, and the creation of safe( r ) spaces for all ...

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 ...

We are two female jazz singers, jazz researchers and lovers of jazz. And we have discovered jazz gave us another shared experience – sexism. We’d both experienced garden variety sexism. Wendy was ...