Artemis — named after the Greek goddess of nature, hunting and wild animals — will follow five nights at New York City’s ...

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 ...

There are many kinds of open. Poet Audre Lorde in her poem “Coal” conveys in words what jazz saxophonist Tia Fuller conveys in sound. The metaphor of the diamond gives voice to the shine inside them ...

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 may be our generation’s equivalent of Weather Report. The contemporary jazz ensemble founded by pianist Renee Rosnes, which was a major hit at Newport last week, has at least a few abstract ...

A note to those who feel, not without merit, that popular culture is getting so stiflingly politically correct and even “woke” that it is being strangled to death: In 1989, when I published my book ...

The best bassists are felt in the groove, not heard over top of it, and the greatest female bassists of all time are certainly no exception. These talented instrumentalists are the driving forces ...

Jazz lover Moira Stuart explores the careers of jazz's great female performers, who used their fame to push social and musical boundaries, and to fight injustice and prejudice ...

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 ...