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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When the organization PDX Jazz announced its lineup for the 2026 Biamp Portland Jazz Festival in mid-October, it was more ...

Visiting Detroit for the opening of "New Standards" — the Carr Center's multimedia exhibition celebrating women's contributions to jazz — legendary civil rights activist and scholar Angela Davis ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Friday, Oct. 11, Madison welcomed the Brass Queens and Mama Digtown’s Brass Band to High Noon Saloon. Hailing from Brooklyn, New York, the Brass Queens are an all-female lead band with sounds inspired ...