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 ...
For more than 20 years, Community Women Against Hardship (CWAH) have merged giving with good music. From Diane Reeves to Oleta Adams, some of the biggest names in jazz music have graced the Sheldon ...
The members of the jazz ensemble Straight Ahead (L-R) are Alina Morr, Kymberli Wright, Marion Hayden, Ingrid Racine and Gayelynn McKinney. Next weekend, the Women in the Arts Festival will be back in ...
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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 ...
Praises are pouring in from the Jazz community for the inaugural Jazz Music Awards, which had its broadcast premiere January 1, 2024, on PBS Passport's on demand platform, as well as the nine PBS ...
René Marie, vocals: Friday, Sept. 1, 6 p.m. and Sunday, Sept. 3, 8:30 p.m. Tia Fuller, saxophone: Friday, Sept. 1, 9:30 p.m. Akiko Tsuruga, B3 organ: Saturday, Sept ...
Voices honoring female jazz and blues legends Billie Holiday, Phyllis Hyman, Nancy Wilson and Bessie Smith drifted through Aretha's Jazz Café, in Detroit's Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts, ...