Long before Aretha, Tina, Whitney, Janet, Brandy, Monica, and Beyonce, a group of pioneering jazz and blues vocalists fashioned the blueprint for the record-breaking feats enjoyed by some of music’s ...

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 ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The second annual Montco Jazz Festival kicks off Wednesday night and the theme is "Women in Jazz." This is both exciting, and personal, for Philly-based and ...

In celebration of Women's History Month, the American Jazz Museum is hosting the event Believe In: Women in Jazz. The fundraiser looks at some of jazz's biggest female artists and includes a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

According to its website, the Palm Springs Women’s Jazz and Blues Association, the 501(c)(3) behind the Palm Springs Women's Jazz Festival, exists to "preserve and foster an appreciation of jazz and ...

Thousands of people knew Harriet Rosenfeld Choice by the words she wrote for this newspaper, decades worth of her enthusiastic and influential coverage of the jazz scene, which compelled her to be one ...

Local jazz aficionado Daniel Atkinson will present a two-day festival called Women in Jazz next week through his San Diego Jazz Ventures, an organization he launched a year ago to bring more jazz to ...

Virtuoso drummer Sherrie Maricle leads The DIVA Jazz Orchestra, an ensemble of 15 versatile women musicians about whom it has been said, “If there were still big band cutting sessions, DIVA would ...

Where would we be without Ella? Without that voice, that propulsive sense of swing, that fleet technique and that seemingly inexhaustible well of improvisational creativity? Ella Fitzgerald, who died ...