Women have always had a lot of the big names in jazz: Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald. These artists broke barriers in the male-dominated genre; the trails they blazed are carried forth ...

Ekep Nkwelle will perform with Marilyn Maye and Catherine Russell at 92 NY July 20. Joining forces at 92NY’s annual “Jazz in July” series on July 20 will be Marilyn Maye, Catherine Russell and Ekep ...

One of Detroit’s most unique art happenings is an event that takes audiences back nearly a century, immersing music lovers in an environment that brings iconic female jazz singers of the 20th century ...

In Celebration of Women’s History Month, CapRadio will present nightly broadcasts on KXPR (88.9 FM) during the entire month of March that will spotlight the legendary female instrumentalists and ...

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 ...

Music festivals are always a wonderful way to catch talented rising stars before they launch into the stratosphere. Some lucky Savannah Music Festival concertgoers got to see jazz singing phenom ...

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, ...

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 ...

When I was new to the music, all the standard histories of jazz were keen to dismiss what they derisively referred to as the “Vaudeville Blues” singers of the Jazz Age. I remember one line in ...

The night opened with an instrumental version of “Tea for Two,” “Tangerine,” and “You Go to My Head,” played by the band, including Fulton. The entire evening was a glorious celebration of female ...