Jane Ira Bloom Never have there been more prominent women clarinetists, saxophonists, and flutists in jazz that there are today and that trend has been increasing steadily for years. In the 25th annual Jazz Journalists Association Jazz Awards alto player Lakecia Benjamin was the Up and Coming Musician of the Year, Lauren Sevian was the […]
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31 Women in Jazz … and Only Women
Tags: Ada Rovatti, allison miller, Amy Denio, Anat Cohen, Arianna Fanning, Celia Jimenez, Chia-Yin Carol Ma, Danae Olano, Dayme Arocena, Elizabeth Rodriguez, Geri Allen, Gretchen Parlato, Haily Niswanger, Ingrid Jensen, Jamie Baum, Jane Bunnett, Jennifer Vincent, Jessica Lurie, Joanna Majoke, Lekecia Benjamin, Leni Stern, Linda Oh, Linda Taylor, Magdelys Savigne, Mary Paz, Mayra Casales, Melissa Aldana, Melvis Santa, Monika Herzig, Noriko Ueda, Renee Rosnes, Reut Regev, Robert Kainar, Rosa Avila, Sue Orfield, Tailin Marrero, Terri Lyne Carrington, Tina Richardson, Tineke Postma, Yissy GarciaMembers of Artemis – Allison Miller, Melissa Aldana, Noriko Ueda, Anat Cohen In 2020, for the first time, woman musicians won half of the instrumental categories in the Jazz Journalists Association’s annual awards program. To celebrate Women’s History Month, we are going to turn over the next several programs to women artists, whose numbers are […]
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Hour 17 Little Big Bands – Cory Weeds, Dave Holland, Todd Marcus, Jamie Baum, Steve Coleman, Charlie Haden, Anat Cohen
Dave Holland Between the standard small jazz ensembles of quartets, quintets and sextets and the powerhouse big bands is a world of ensembles with eight, nine, ten or eleven players. Famously, The 1949 Birth of the Cool sessions were from a nonet assembled by Miles Davis, with arrangements by Gerry Mulligan, Gil Evans and John […]
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Hour 10: Israeli Ex-Patriots in New York – Omer Avital, Anat Cohen, Avishai Cohen, Yonathan Avishai, Gilad Hekselman and Idan Morim
Anat Cohen Fueled by the arrival of Israeli ex-patriot guitarist Roni Ben-Hur in 1985 and bassists Omer Avital and Avishai Cohen in late nineties, a network of Israeli musicians have steadily filtered into New York over the past twenty years. Several have risen to the highest levels of acclaim. A dozen years ago, Andrew Gilbert […]