Women Drummers International presents Women Drum Maestras: Born to Drum. A herstoric concert featuring the faculty of the womens' drum camp: Lora Chiorah-Dye, Linda Tillery, Nurudafina Pili Abena, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NPR's Juana Summers talks with drummer Terri Lyne Carrington, who compiled a book of lead sheets by women composers after she couldn't find one herself. Her book is called "New Standards." In 2018, ...

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 ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. On Friday, March 24 at 8 PM, Flushing Town Hall will present Octogenarian Women of ...

Pianist Amy Bormet founded the Washington Women in Jazz Festival to promote women musicians in a traditionally male-dominated field. Through performances, workshops, and collaborations, Bormet and ...