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 ...
Artemis — named after the Greek goddess of nature, hunting and wild animals — will follow five nights at New York City’s ...
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 ...
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Jazz is a celebration of spontaneity—a genre for visionaries, risk-takers, and rebellious spirits who live in the moment. Nowhere is this spirit more embodied than in Monika Herzig’s Sheroes, an ...
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 ...
It’s been more than 90 years since Duke Ellington and lyricist Irving Mills composed “It Don’t Mean a Thing “(If It Ain’t Got That Swing).” However, that credo remains paramount for drummer and band ...
SOMERS POINT — The women have the men beat when it comes to this year’s Jazz @ the Point Fall Festival this weekend. With the theme of “A Tribute to the Saxophone,” more women — five — will perform ...
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As one character notes in Atlanta playwright Vynnie Meli's "Jim Crow and the Rhythm Darlings," "You don't need to get wet to know that it's raining." The line comes during an exchange between two ...
Six-time Grammy nominated guitarist Mike Stern will visit OU as a part of the School of Music's Resonance Series Sunday ...
When she opened in Manhattan last week, a pressagent told Toshiko that she should wear a kimono all the time because she was, after all, the only female jazz pianist from Japan. As a concession, she ...