For quite some time, people have bemoaned the fact that there are few women jazz artists. To some extent this claim has been true, amplified by the circumstance that many women jazz musicians have ...

HAVANA (AP) — It wasn’t that long ago that Cuba’s rich percussion scene was essentially a boys’ club, dominated by men due to macho attitudes and religious tradition. Perceived as too weak for the ...

In 2018, Grammy-winning jazz drummer Terri Lyne Carrington founded The Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice, which launched with a question at the heart of its program "What would jazz sound ...

Michala Østergaard-Nielsen is a jazz drummer from Denmark, a country with a rich tradition of women playing drums. Once during a lesson with Gerald Cleaver, she was told you could either play drums ...

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 ...

The 2025 Savannah Music Festival will feature a diverse lineup of talented women in jazz, reflecting the genre's evolution and inclusivity. These artists, including Lakecia Benjamin, Endea Owens, and ...

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 ...

March is Women’s History Month, and Ann Arbor’s Blue Llama Jazz Club is celebrating by featuring women-led groups as headliners all month long. The first week includes the Latin jazz sounds of Jane ...

It’s true that come March many jazz venues consciously look to book female instrumentalists in celebration of Women’s History Month. But it’s also true that presenters don’t have to search hard to ...

Though devoutly worshipped by fans, jazz drummers don’t often lead groups; the late Art Blakey’s long-running Jazz Messengers are a prominent, if rare, exception. But all of a sudden in 2009, a clutch ...