It's not every day that audiences get to experience a six-piece, all-female jazz ensemble, but get ready for it when the Shake 'Em Up Jazz Band takes the Dew Drop Jazz Hall stage on April 20 and ...

The members of the jazz ensemble Straight Ahead (L-R) are Alina Morr, Kymberli Wright, Marion Hayden, Ingrid Racine and Gayelynn McKinney. Next weekend, the Women in the Arts Festival will be back in ...

As one character notes in Atlanta playwright Vynnie Meli's "Jim Crow and the Rhythm Darlings," "You don't need to get wet to know that it's raining." The line comes during an exchange between two ...

Jazz is a celebration of spontaneity—a genre for visionaries, risk-takers, and rebellious spirits who live in the moment. Nowhere is this spirit more embodied than in Monika Herzig’s Sheroes, an ...

The acclaimed jazz group Artemis began with a special request. In 2016, a French promoter asked pianist Renee Rosnes to organize an all-female jazz band to perform in Paris and Luxembourg. Rosnes ...

Artemis may be our generation’s equivalent of Weather Report. The contemporary jazz ensemble founded by pianist Renee Rosnes, which was a major hit at Newport last week, has at least a few abstract ...

SEATTLE — At Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, Johnaye Kendrick is guiding the next generation of musicians. "I love offering the knowledge that I have, but it's also I learn so much from my ...

This list celebrates 5 all-female bands that left a lasting mark on music history. From punk to pop to hard rock, each group brought something unique to the stage and the studio. For decades, the ...

Before touching her lips to her trumpet mouthpiece and leaning into the opening notes of “Billie’s Bounce” by jazz legend Charlie Parker, Allie Molin issued an apology. It’s allergy season, she said, ...