Monthly Archives: November 2024

New Standards: How a much-needed volume is hopefully closing the very real gender gap in the perception, performance and art of jazz composition.

When drummer-composer-bandleader-educator-activist NEA Jazz Master Terri Lyne Carrington set out to right a historic wrong – i.e. the sad and ongoing lack of recognition for women’s compositions as vehicles of jazz expressions, she craftily went about assembling a vehicle for … Continue reading

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