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 ...

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 ...

Organizers are hoping to put a spotlight on top female talent in the jazz genre with a specific focus on bringing new ...

There are many kinds of open. Poet Audre Lorde in her poem “Coal” conveys in words what jazz saxophonist Tia Fuller conveys in sound. The metaphor of the diamond gives voice to the shine inside them ...

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 ...

A note to those who feel, not without merit, that popular culture is getting so stiflingly politically correct and even “woke” that it is being strangled to death: In 1989, when I published my book ...

The best bassists are felt in the groove, not heard over top of it, and the greatest female bassists of all time are certainly no exception. These talented instrumentalists are the driving forces ...

There’s a toy instrument called the melodica that found its voice in Jamaican music, being used as an additional fleck of sonorousness in the stripped-down music. It also happened to be the instrument ...