The early 1920s were caught between the lingering hardships of World War I and the exuberance of the Jazz Age that would come ...

Women have always had a lot of the big names in jazz: Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald. These artists broke barriers in the male-dominated genre; the trails they blazed are carried forth ...

When I was new to the music, all the standard histories of jazz were keen to dismiss what they derisively referred to as the “Vaudeville Blues” singers of the Jazz Age. I remember one line in ...

For quite some time, people have bemoaned the fact that there are few women jazz artists. To some extent this claim has been true, amplified by the circumstance that many women jazz musicians have ...