The world of jazz never has been particularly hospitable to women, then or now, though matters have improved since the darkest days. Even so, the female trumpeter or saxophonist who leads her own band ...

Straightahead jazz, which developed as a primarily black American art form, today remains one of the last cultural endeavors to resist integration. To be sure, black, white, American Indian and ...

The 1920s was a breakthrough decade for women in business and other professions. In Manhattan, a number of ambitious women became celebrity entrepreneurs. These women were independent, savvy, and ...

A stunning collection of women’s fashions from the 1920s will be on display from Friday, Nov. 5 – Friday, April 8, as part of Venus & Diana: Fashioning the Jazz Age, presented by Drexel University’s ...

March is Women's History Month. One of the most important times in the history of women in the United States was the 1920s, when former rules of etiquette were discarded and women demanded the ...

The musicians wanted permission to go backstage and see what boy’s band was back there playing, see how this thing was done. ‘It was pantomime, they got to have a band back there,’ they said. ‘Ain't ...

Seattle Women in Jazz will honor KUOW’s host of The Swing Years And Beyond, Amanda Wilde, with an award for her inspiring contribution and dedication to the jazz community. The award will be presented ...