GOOD SUNDAY MORNING, P.O.U.! As you get your Sunday breakfast/brunch on, enjoy the sounds of jazz vocalist, Lauren Henderson. … [Read more...] about Sunday Open Thread: P.O.U. Sunday Jazz Brunch
Black Female Jazz Musicians
Saturday Open Thread: Black Female Jazz Musicians
Ernestine Anderson (born November 11, 1928) is an American jazz and blues singer. In a career spanning more than five decades, she has recorded over 30 albums. She was nominated four times for a Grammy Award. She has sung at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Monterey Jazz Festival (six times over a 33-year span), as well as at jazz festivals all over the world. In the … [Read more...] about Saturday Open Thread: Black Female Jazz Musicians
Friday Open Thread: Black Female Jazz Musicians
Mary Lou Williams (May 8, 1910 – May 28, 1981) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger. She wrote hundreds of compositions and arrangements, and recorded more than one hundred records (in 78, 45, and LP versions). Williams wrote and arranged for such bandleaders as Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman, and she was friend, mentor, and teacher to Thelonious Monk, Charlie … [Read more...] about Friday Open Thread: Black Female Jazz Musicians
Thursday Open Thread: Black Female Jazz Musicians
Rosa King (March 14, 1939 – December 12, 2000) was an American jazz and blues saxophonist/singer who made her fame in Amsterdam and recorded many albums under a variety of labels. … [Read more...] about Thursday Open Thread: Black Female Jazz Musicians