Jazz lover Moira Stuart explores the careers of jazz's great female performers, who used their fame to push social and musical boundaries, and to fight injustice and prejudice ...

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 ...

From music producer Quincy Jones, to critic and archivist Dan Morgenstern, jazz historian Kevin Whitehead remembers just a few of the influential musicians and personalities we lost this year. This is ...

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 ...

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 ...

Annie Murphy Paul is the author of the forthcoming book Brilliant: The New Science of Smart. The improvisational flights of jazz greats like Louis Armstrong and John Coltrane are so transporting that ...

I recently bought a book compiled and photographed by the one and only jazz patroness, Baroness Pannonica (often called Nica) de Koenigswarter, a member of the old-world aristocratic and fabulously ...

Oral historian Veronica Johnson discusses the Detroit Women in Jazz Oral History Project. Oral historian Veronica Johnson has partnered with the Detroit Sound Conservancy to create the Detroit Women ...

This is FRESH AIR. Here on the show, we memorialize jazz composer Benny Golson and drummer Roy Haynes. Jazz historian Kevin Whitehead remembers a few more musicians who passed in 2024. For some of ...

Zoot Sims, left, and Al Cohn performing on stage. Al Cohn, circa 1980. Saxophonist John 'Zoot' Sims on break at WTTW Studios during a taping of the show Soundstage in Chicago, Nov. 26, 1979. Harry ...

LONG BEACH, Calif. (KABC) -- After 17 years of touring internationally, Jazz in Pink will have a full-circle moment when it plays Long Beach this weekend. The all-female jazz ensemble from Los Angeles ...

Marshall's father, jazz guitarist and Hollywood composer Jack Marshall, played on the Baker/Sheldon sessions and owned the out-of-town studio where it was recorded, but he died before a deal to ...