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In the 1920s, women singing jazz music were not many, but women playing instruments in jazz music were even less common. Mary Lou Williams, known for her talent as a piano player, is deemed as one of the "mothers of jazz" due to her singing while playing the piano at the same time. [4] Lovie Austin (1887–1972) was a piano player and bandleader.
Mary Lou Williams (born Mary Elfrieda Scruggs; May 8, 1910 – May 28, 1981 [1]) was an American jazz pianist, arranger, and composer. She wrote hundreds of compositions and arrangements and recorded more than one hundred records (in 78, 45, and LP versions). [2]
Jazz music was an influence in helping women gain jobs, as well as opening the environment for post-war equality and freer sexuality in the early twentieth century. [citation needed] Many of the women in jazz music at the time helped influence the genre and many jazz women musicians were people of color. These factors helped grow the genre to ...
Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan; April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959) was an American jazz and swing music singer. Nicknamed " Lady Day " by her friend and music partner, Lester Young, Holiday made a significant contribution to jazz music and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly influenced by jazz instrumentalists, inspired a new way of ...
In the late 1940s and 1950s, as bebop transformed jazz, Jewish women continued to thrive in the genre. From the 1960s and 1970s onward, Jewish women in jazz embraced a broader array of instruments. Additionally, as jazz gained international prominence, Jewish female jazz musicians from various parts of the world, notably the United States ...
Also: United Kingdom: People: By occupation: Women musicians / Jazz musicians: Women jazz musicians. Subcategories. This category has the following 3 subcategories ...
Peggy Gilbert (January 17, 1905 – February 12, 2007), born Margaret Fern Knechtges, [1] was an American jazz saxophonist and bandleader.. She was born in Sioux City, Iowa.. When she was seven years old, she played piano and violin with her father's band; she later discovered jazz and started to play the saxop
Women jazz musicians. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Female jazz musicians. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Jazz musicians. It includes jazz musicians that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.