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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