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Jazz Appreciation Month: Women in Jazz

  • Chantal W.
  • Monday, April 05, 2021

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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.

Dianne Reeves

Dianne Reeves

The Early Years.
Published in 2008
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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DVD
 
Etta James

Etta James

Live at Montreux, 1993
Published in 2012
1 videodisc (approximately 160 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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DVD
 
The Girls in the Band

The Girls in the Band

Published in 2014
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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DVD
 
The Girls in the Band - Female Jazz Musicians.

The Girls in the Band - Female Jazz Musicians.

Published in 2016
1 online resource (streaming video file) (87 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
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Streaming Video
 
Great Women Singers of the 20th Century. Abbey Lincoln

Great Women Singers of the 20th Century. Abbey Lincoln

Published in 2005
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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DVD
 
How It Feels to Be Free

How It Feels to Be Free

Published in 2021
1 videodisc (approximately 113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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DVD
 
International Sweethearts of Rhythm.

International Sweethearts of Rhythm.

Published in 2015
1 online resource (streaming video file)
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Streaming Video
 
Lady Day

Lady Day

The Many Faces of Billie Holiday
Published in 2009
1 videodisc (59 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Tiny and Ruby

Tiny and Ruby

Hell Divin' Women.
Published in 2015
1 online resource (streaming video file)
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Streaming Video
 
The Life of a Song

The Life of a Song

Allen, Geri.
Published in 2004
1 online resource (1 audio file (1hr., 05 min.)) : digital.
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Streaming Music
 
Open the Door

Open the Door

The Life and Music of Betty Carter
Bauer, William R. (William Roy), 1957-
Published in 2002
xx, 415 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Irrepressible

Irrepressible

The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham
Bingham, Emily.
Published in 2015
xii, 369 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Book
 
With Billie

With Billie

Blackburn, Julia.
Published in 2012
text file
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Ebook
 
With Billie

With Billie

A New Look at the Unforgettable Lady Day.
Blackburn, Julia.
Published in 2006
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To Ella with Love

To Ella with Love

Callaway, Ann Hampton.
Published in 2005
1 online resource (1 audio file (41 min.)) : digital.
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Streaming Music
 
The Mosaic Project

The Mosaic Project

Carrington, Terri Lyne.
Published in 2011
1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Music CD
 
The Mosaic Project

The Mosaic Project

Carrington, Terri Lyne, instrumentalist, singer.
Published in 2011
1 online resource (1 audio file (1hr., 11 min.)) : digital.
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Streaming Music
 
Motor City Moments.

Motor City Moments.

Carter, Regina.
Published in 2000
1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Music CD
 
Treelines

Treelines

Christine Jensen Jazz Orchestra.
Published in 2016
1 online resource (1 audio file (1hr., 14 min.)) : digital.
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Streaming Music
 
Girl Singer

Girl Singer

An Autobiography
Clooney, Rosemary.
Published in 1999
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Queen

Queen

The Life and Music of Dinah Washington
Cohodas, Nadine.
Published in 2004
viii, 559 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Book
 
One Dark Night I Left My Silent House

One Dark Night I Left My Silent House

Crispell, Marilyn.
Published in 2010
1 sound disc : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.
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Music CD
 
Shall We Play That One Together?

Shall We Play That One Together?

The Life and Art of Jazz Piano Legend Marian McPartland
De Barros, Paul.
Published in 2012
ix, 484 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Book
 
Swing Sisters

Swing Sisters

The Story of the International Sweethearts of Rhythm
Deans, Karen, author.
Published in 2015
30 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
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The Lady Swings

The Lady Swings

Memoirs of a Jazz Drummer
Dodgion, Dottie, 1929- author.
Published in 2021
pages cm.
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Dance of Time

Dance of Time

Elias, Eliane, performer, arranger of music.
Published in 2017
1 audio disc ; 4 3/4 in.
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Music CD
 
Jazzwomen

Jazzwomen

Conversations with Twenty-one Musicians
Enstice, Wayne, 1943-
Published in 2004
xvii, 368 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
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Book
 
Ella Fitzgerald Live in '57 & '63

Ella Fitzgerald Live in '57 & '63

Fitzgerald, Ella.
Published in 2006
1 videodisc (56 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (15 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm).
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DVD
 
The Great Jazz and Pop Vocal Albums

The Great Jazz and Pop Vocal Albums

Friedwald, Will, 1961- author.
Published in 2017
xxv, 402 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
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Book
 
Stormy Weather

Stormy Weather

The Life of Lena Horne
Gavin, James, 1964-
Published in 2009
598 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Book
 
Is That All There Is?

Is That All There Is?

The Strange Life of Peggy Lee
Gavin, James, 1964- author.
Published in 2014
601 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Book
 
Queen of Bebop

Queen of Bebop

Hayes, Elaine M.
Published in 2017
digital
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Queen of Bebop

Queen of Bebop

Hayes, Elaine M.
Published in 2017
text file
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Ebook
 
Queen of Bebop

Queen of Bebop

The Musical Lives of Sarah Vaughan
Hayes, Elaine M., author.
Published in 2017
x, 419 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Book
 
Lady Sings the Blues the 50th Anniversary Edition

Lady Sings the Blues the 50th Anniversary Edition

Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959.
Published in 2011
1 online resource
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Ebook
 
Last Chance Texaco

Last Chance Texaco

Chronicles of an American Troubadour
Jones, Rickie Lee, author.
Published in 2021
xviii, 364, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Soul on Soul

Soul on Soul

Kernodle, Tammy L., 1969-
Published in 2020
text file
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Sweethearts of Rhythm

Sweethearts of Rhythm

The Story of the Greatest All-girl Swing Band in the World
Nelson, Marilyn, 1946-
Published in 2009
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 x 27 cm
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High Times, Hard Times

High Times, Hard Times

O'Day, Anita.
Published in 1989
376 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Book
 
Ella Fitzgerald

Ella Fitzgerald

The Tale of a Vocal Virtuosa
Pinkney, Andrea Davis.
Published in 2002
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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Book
 
Terry Pollard (2015 Remastered Version

Terry Pollard (2015 Remastered Version

Pollard, Terry.
Published in 2017
1 online resource (1 audio file (34 min.)) : digital.
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Streaming Music
 
Struttin' with Some Barbecue

Struttin' with Some Barbecue

Lil Hardin Armstrong Becomes the First Lady of Jazz
Powell, Patricia Hruby, 1951- author.
Published in 2018
96 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Book
 
Beautiful Life

Beautiful Life

Reeves, Dianne.
Published in 2013
1 sound disc (69 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Music CD
 
Beautiful Life

Beautiful Life

Reeves, Dianne.
Published in 2014
1 online resource (1 audio file (1hr., 08 min.)) : digital.
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Streaming Music
 
Little Melba and Her Big Trombone

Little Melba and Her Big Trombone

Russell-Brown, Katheryn, 1961- author.
Published in 2014
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 28 cm
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Book
 
Relaxed Piano Moods

Relaxed Piano Moods

Scott, Hazel.
Published in 2020
1 online resource (1 audio file (41 min.)) : digital.
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Streaming Music
 
Red Hot Mama

Red Hot Mama

The Life of Sophie Tucker
Sklaroff, Lauren Rebecca, author.
Published in 2018
276 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Book
 
Women Drummers

Women Drummers

A History from Rock and Jazz to Blues and Country
Smith, Angela, 1945- author.
Published in 2014
xviii, 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Book
 
Women in Jazz

Women in Jazz

The Women, The Legends & Their Fight.
Stein, Sammy.
Published in 2019
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Book
 
Billie Holiday

Billie Holiday

The Musician and the Myth
Szwed, John F., 1936- author.
Published in 2015
230 pages ; 24 cm
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Book
 
Shout, Sister, Shout!

Shout, Sister, Shout!

The Untold Story of Rock-and-roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Wald, Gayle, 1965-
Published in 2007
xii, 252 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Book
 
Volcano Blues

Volcano Blues

Weston, Randy, 1926-2018.
Published in 1993
1 online resource (1 audio file (54 min.)) : digital.
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Streaming Music
 
Zodiac Suite

Zodiac Suite

Williams, Mary Lou, 1910-1981.
Published in 1995
1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Chantal W.

Research and Readers' Advisory Manager

British mystery show addict and lover of fantasy, romance and mystery novels.

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