This story about “The Woman King” composer Terence Blanchard first appeared in “The Race Begins” issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine. Terence Blanchard’s resume is full of big accomplishments: The jazz ...
Imagine forming a new musical group, releasing your first single and picking up a Grammy nomination in the best arrangement for instruments and vocals category in the process. That’s what happened to ...
The country’s biggest Women’s Jazz Festival is set to return to Hey Nonny Jan. 7 through 11. It will be the third annual installment of the event at the Arlington Heights music venue and bistro.
Following last year’s roaring success with Chris “Big Dog” Davis’s first “Celebrating the Women in Jazz” concert, Boscov’s Berks Jazz Fest will present a reboot, featuring a whole new slate of artists ...
Words of affirmation are important when you’re a teenage girl – so when Bill Murray told Laufey Lín Jónsdóttir, the Grammy-winning jazz artist known as Laufey, that she was a “powerful woman” at 17, ...
Correspondent John Birchard patrols the jazz precincts of the US capital city for Rifftides. 13th Annual Women In Jazz Festival Kennedy Center, Washington, DC Second Night May 16, 2008 Review by John ...
The seventh annual Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Festival couldn't have begun on a brighter note. A packed house at the Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater on Thursday night greeted festival founder ...
This curio is more a snapshot of the jazz-influenced and -inflected popular singing of the time than a reflection of state-of-the-art jazz singing. Too many undistinguished arrangements and corny horn ...
Elegance Returns to Bourbon Street Every Thursday, Friday and Saturday evening the Royal Sonesta Hotel's Mystick Den Lounge presents the outstanding "Women in Jazz" music series.From the "Grand Dame" ...