Women and Jazz

We usually associate jazz with men like Charlie Parker, John Coltrane or Louis Armstrong. We all Know Ella Fitzgerald and Nina Simone but what about jazzwomen? Here is a great website about women that play Jazz Jazz Grrls .Here is another site with more informations on women's role in Jazz and with some audio samples Women in Jazz . Here is another article on women in Jazz in the early era Women of early jazz and just to make it full here is an article by John F Kennedy Center Undersatanding women in Jazz . I also found in my reasearch an interresting article on Jazz feminism Enjoy!And if you liked and you have the chance to go to NYC there is a Jazz festival dedicated to women only WOMEN IN JAZZ FESTIVAL 2007, April 20–22, 2007, at Saint Peter’s Church, 619 Lexington Avenue (at 54th Street), New York City

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