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Women in jazz have contributed throughout the many eras of jazz history, both as performers and as composers, songwriters and bandleaders. While women such as Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald were famous for their jazz singing, women have achieved much less recognition for their contributions as composers , bandleaders and instrumental ...
Another woman who made history in the jazz industry is Dolly Jones, the first woman jazz trumpeter to be recorded. [64] Women like Sweet Emma Barrett, who performed in the Original Tuxedo Orchestra, toured domestically and internationally. One of Barrett's hit songs is "A Good Man is Hard to Find".
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]
Fifty years ago today, 18-year-old Vera Brandes organized a concert for jazz pianist Keith Jarrett in Cologne, West Germany, which went on to make music history: a recording of the concert became ...
Anna Mae Winburn (née Darden; August 13, 1913 – September 30, 1999) was an American vocalist and jazz bandleader who flourished beginning in the mid-1930s. An African-American, she is best known for having directed the International Sweethearts of Rhythm, an all-female big band that was perhaps one of the few – and one of the most – racially integrated dance-bands of the swing era. [1]
During a 1980 Kansas City Women's Jazz Festival interview, band member Helen Jones said that the existence of the International Sweethearts of Rhythm was the result of Jones's vision. In the 1930s he was inspired by Ina Ray Hutton 's Melodears to create an all-female jazz band at Piney Woods. [ 6 ]
Jewish women have left their mark on the jazz music industry, making contributions both formally and informally. Miriam Bienstock (1923–2015), daughter to Russian-Jewish immigrants, played an important role during the early years of Atlantic Records , a label founded in 1947 that recorded numerous significant jazz and pop artists.
The Women’s History Coalition of Miami-Dade County recognized Ruth at its annual luncheon in 2016. The coalition’s current president, Rose Martin, acknowledged Braddock’s passing: “The ...