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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
photo - A celebrated saxophonist Joie Taylor has backed jazz stars like Delfayo Marsalis, Javon Jackson and Larry Coryell at Maui Jazz & Blues Festival shows. Courtesy photo Performing at the Maui ...
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 ...
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, ...
Bethany Robinson’s Purdue Jazz Band shared the stage with Wynton Marsalis and his Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. Saturday ...
Ankora, an all-female jazz ensemble formed via Tomorrow’s Warriors, perform at Worcester’s Marr’s Bar on Feb 12 as part of the Kind of Jazz series.