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Jazz Appreciation Month: Women in Jazz
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Jazz is a male dominated field, but women have contributed significantly since it began. Most of the women of Jazz that are well known to most of us (especially those of us who are not aficionados of the genre) do tend to be the vocalists, rather than the instrumentalists. Here is a list of books, music and film to help you learn more about both.
Etta James
Live at Montreux, 1993
Published in 2012
1 videodisc (approximately 160 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
The Girls in the Band - Female Jazz Musicians.
Published in 2016
1 online resource (streaming video file) (87 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Great Women Singers of the 20th Century. Abbey Lincoln
Published in 2005
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
How It Feels to Be Free
Published in 2021
1 videodisc (approximately 113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Lady Day
The Many Faces of Billie Holiday
Published in 2009
1 videodisc (59 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Open the Door
The Life and Music of Betty Carter
Published in 2002
xx, 415 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Irrepressible
The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham
Published in 2015
xii, 369 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Queen
The Life and Music of Dinah Washington
Published in 2004
viii, 559 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Shall We Play That One Together?
The Life and Art of Jazz Piano Legend Marian McPartland
Published in 2012
ix, 484 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Swing Sisters
The Story of the International Sweethearts of Rhythm
Published in 2015
30 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Jazzwomen
Conversations with Twenty-one Musicians
Published in 2004
xvii, 368 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
Ella Fitzgerald Live in '57 & '63
Published in 2006
1 videodisc (56 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (15 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm).
Stormy Weather
The Life of Lena Horne
Published in 2009
598 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Is That All There Is?
The Strange Life of Peggy Lee
Published in 2014
601 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Queen of Bebop
The Musical Lives of Sarah Vaughan
Published in 2017
x, 419 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Last Chance Texaco
Chronicles of an American Troubadour
Published in 2021
xviii, 364, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Sweethearts of Rhythm
The Story of the Greatest All-girl Swing Band in the World
Published in 2009
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 x 27 cm
High Times, Hard Times
Published in 1989
376 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Ella Fitzgerald
The Tale of a Vocal Virtuosa
Published in 2002
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Terry Pollard (2015 Remastered Version
Published in 2017
1 online resource (1 audio file (34 min.)) : digital.
Struttin' with Some Barbecue
Lil Hardin Armstrong Becomes the First Lady of Jazz
Published in 2018
96 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Little Melba and Her Big Trombone
Published in 2014
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 28 cm
Red Hot Mama
The Life of Sophie Tucker
Published in 2018
276 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Women Drummers
A History from Rock and Jazz to Blues and Country
Published in 2014
xviii, 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Shout, Sister, Shout!
The Untold Story of Rock-and-roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Published in 2007
xii, 252 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
