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Nadine Jansen, a flugelhornist and pianist, remembers a night in the 1940s when a man came out of the audience as she was playing both instruments. 'I hate to see a woman do that, ' he explained as he hit the end of her horn, nearly chipping her tooth. Half a century later, a big band name...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gourse, Leslie
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 1996, ©1995.
Temas:
Women jazz musicians > United States.
Jazz > History and criticism.
Musiciennes de jazz > États-Unis.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Jazz.
Jazz.
Women jazz musicians.
Biografie
Jazzmusikerin
United States.
USA
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Diva
  • A status report on the contemporary scene : part one
  • A status report : part II
  • Remembrance of things passé : Jill McManus recalls the frustrations of the jazz sisters in the 1970s
  • Several successful contemporary young women musicians talk about their inspiration and commitment
  • Pianists Renee Rosnes and Rachel Z, rising to the top in the 1990s, ruminate about their worlds
  • A view from the business women
  • The instrument is the image
  • Kit McClure, big-band leader : "You did the right thing"
  • Tracy Wormworth, bassist : "Doors just opened"
  • Emily Remler and the guitarists
  • Focusing on trumpeter Rebecca Coupe Franks, alto saxophonists Virginia Mayhew, Charol Chaikin, and Sue Terry, French horn player Stephanie Fauber, oboist Kathy Halvorson, and saxophonists Laura Dreyer and Paula Atherton
  • Trumpeters Laurie Frink and Stacy Rowles
  • Flautists Elise Wood and Ali Ryerson
  • Carol Sudhalter, a role model
  • Jane Ira Bloom, soprano saxophonist and experimentalist
  • Terri Lyne Carrington
  • Cindy Blackman and Sylvia Cuenca
  • Percussionist Carol Steele
  • Individualists
  • Shirley Horn : "I got older and bolder"
  • Joanne Brackeen lives and plays without any dos and don'ts
  • The wily Miss Dorothy Donegan, mistress of fiery medleys
  • Marian McPartland : " ... something you really need in life, someone to encourage you"
  • A few words about love, marriage, and motherhood
  • A view from the West Coast / Frankie Nemko
  • Appendix : Women instrumentalists active in the 1980s and early 1990s.

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