“You have to go back. We are all standing on the shoulders of giants." The World of Jazz Trumpet: a Comprehensive History and Practical Application (Hal Leonard) is a first-of-its-kind: The first look ...

When Ellen Seeling was a little girl, she fell in love with jazz and asked her mother if she could take trumpet lessons. Snapp Shots: Garden of Memory returning to Oakland’s Chapel of Chimes Snapp ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- In a world where jazz music has traditionally been dominated by men, a unique nonprofit is changing the narrative. The Key Of She Jazz hosted its annual jam session and ...

For quite some time, people have bemoaned the fact that there are few women jazz artists. To some extent this claim has been true, amplified by the circumstance that many women jazz musicians have ...

It’s true that come March many jazz venues consciously look to book female instrumentalists in celebration of Women’s History Month. But it’s also true that presenters don’t have to search hard to ...

March is Women’s History Month, and Ann Arbor’s Blue Llama Jazz Club is celebrating by featuring women-led groups as headliners all month long. The first week includes the Latin jazz sounds of Jane ...

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 ...

RULLI Nancy Hildegarde of Rockport MA, formerly Nancy Pratt of Sea Girt NJ and of Manhattan, died on September 13, 2016. Nancy is best known as a female professional trumpet player, one of the first ...