There's a rich, important and often under-recognized legacy of all-female big bands, so we'll also spend some time in this show paying tribute. Our host, Christian McBride, traveled to California ...

Jazz Night in America host Christian McBride ... "They were probably the first all-female band taken seriously," McBride says, explaining that the Sweethearts were boundary breakers in more ...

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 ...

Every time Diva plays, the all- female band strikes a mighty blow against the sexist stereotype that women can’t cut it in the male-dominated jazz world. Billing itself as No Man’s Band ...

While women weren't recognized at the birth of jazz, by the 1920s "all-female" bands proliferated in the U.S. Twenty-five to 30 all-women orchestras performed in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York ...

Nowhere is this spirit more embodied than in Monika Herzig’s Sheroes, an all-female jazz band from New York that defies expectations. Recently, Sheroes celebrated their tenth anniversary and ...

After hearing an all-female swing band on the radio in ... “That was a great band, a fantastic band,” jazz trumpeter Clark Terry told critic Nat Hentoff for his book “At the Jazz Band ...

But Sherrie Tucker, a professor at the University of Kansas who writes about gender in jazz, says that the Original Pinettes may well be the first all-female New Orleans-style brass band ...

Equally as integral to the music, though, is the rest of the ... these are the ten best female jazz vocalists of all time. Blossom Dearie Blossom Dearie may not have had been able to do vocal ...

Though women are included in this volume as singers, pianists and composer-arrangers, there are no essays on women instrumentalists or on all-female jazz bands. It’s true that there is a long ...

If you Google “all-female jazz groups,” you’ll learn of the ... who signed the act. The band followed up its 2020 self-titled debut for Blue Note with 2023’s “In Real Time” and plans ...

BALTIMORE -- Bela Dona, a nine-member all-female go-go band, is hitting the stage at Jazzy ... promised their R&B sound combined with funk, jazz, rock, and even hip hop will get the crowd moving ...