Our new Women in Jazz Media Playlist is now out: Volume 38! We publish a new playlist each month and try to share a wide range of women from across the world - new releases, legacy artists, new and established artists and also some women we think you should know about but maybe don't! We keep it to 15 artists per playlist to give you time to discover, listen and share these incredible women.
You can listen here on Spotify or Youtube. As always we would encourage you to buy directly from the artist where possible, and all the links are on our site here:
Do please get in touch if you have music you would like us to include - either your own or recommendations. We are especially keen to share music from female instrumentalists and composers.
Dr. Alexis McGee received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at San Antonio where she also received two certificates of concentration in Linguistics and Rhetoric and Composition. Drawing from this background, McGee is an interdisciplinary scholar who engages with various fields and sub-disciplines such as Rhetoric, Composition/Writing Studies, Black Studies, Critical Pedagogies, Sound Studies, as well as Women and Gender Studies. Her concentrated research interests, more specifically, focus on Black women’s rhetorical uses of voice, literacies, and expression.
McGee’s book, From Blues to Beyoncé: A Century of Black Women’s Generational Sonic Rhetorics, (SUNY 2024), amplifies Black women’s ongoing public assertions of resistance, agency, and hope across different media from the nineteenth century to today. By examining recordings, music videos, autobiographical writings, and speeches, Alexis McGee explores how figures such as Ida B. Wells, Billie Holiday, Ruth Brown, Queen Latifah, Aretha Franklin, Nina Simone, Janelle Monáe, and more mobilize sound to challenge antiBlack discourses and extend social justice pedagogies. Building on contemporary Black feminist interventions in sound studies and sonic rhetorics, From Blues to Beyoncé reveals how Black women’s sonic acts transmit meaning and knowledge within, between, and across generations. Her work has been featured on BBC Radio4 and published in various venues including College, Composition, and Communication (forthcoming, 2022); Rhetoric Review (2021); Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (2018); Obsidian (2017); and Pedagogy (2016).
From Blues to Beyoncé: A Century of Black Women’s Generational Sonic Rhetorics: Available to purchase here
Welcome to the latest episode of ‘In Conversation With’ with host and producer Hannah Horton, with our theme tune Surfing Thermals from our host, Hannah too! In this episode, host Hannah Horton welcomes Kai Hoffman
Originally from Boston, MA, USA, Kai Hoffman is a blues, jazz & cabaret singer, songwriter, bandleader and recording artist based in the United Kingdom. Kai’s international reputation is growing steadily with shows including Don’t Tell Mama and the Metropolitan Room in New York City, The Blue Note in Milan and the European Jazz Expo, with further performances in countries as varied as Bangladesh, the Netherlands and Russia.
Founded by artistic director Kai Hoffman, Herne Bay Jazz Festival CIC became a registered non-profit community interest company in February, 2024. As a CIC, we are currently expanding our year-round programs which will include workshops and performances over the course of the year as well as our August events. With a strong emphasis on exploring this genre of music without the barriers of cost or travel, our program includes new and established performers across a wide range of jazz styles, with free workshops for children and adults to explore their own creativity, offering our audiences the broadest selection possible, with an emphasis on inclusivity.
Hannah Horton is a British Female Jazz Saxophonist whose music is rooted in jazz, folk and funk. She has performed with many great jazz artists including Ian Shaw, Amy Winehouse, John Etheridge, Tina May, Georgia Mancio, Polly Gibbons, Natalie Williams, Esther Bennett and Irene Serra; and at venues including Ronnie Scott’s, Pizza Express Dean St, The 606, The Pheasantry, Love Supreme Jazz Festival, Royal Festival Hall and The Barbican. She has also toured in Europe and USA with her own and other groups. Her latest album has been going down a storm across the world. “Hannah makes the big beast of a baritone sax sound like an angel” – Ian Shaw. Hannah Horton website
Our new Women in Jazz Media Playlist is now out: Volume 37! We publish a new playlist each month and try to share a wide range of women from across the world - new releases, legacy artists, new and established artists and also some women we think you should know about but maybe don't! We keep it to 15 artists per playlist to give you time to discover, listen and share these incredible women.
Do please get in touch if you have music you would like us to include - either your own or recommendations. We are especially keen to share music from female instrumentalists and composers.
Welcome to our latest team news! We like to share some of the work the team have been doing both inside and outside of their Women in Jazz Media work and we have all been very busy as always.
A lot has been happening since our last news update in May, so get ready…we launched our July magazine which you can find hereSome highlights include:
We also paid tribute our team member Sandra Booker who very sadly passed away recently.
We relaunched our ‘Kicking Down The Door’ podcast series with new host Mary Sho and were thrilled to have the mighty China moses as our first guest! You can listen here
Kim Cypher interviewed the owner of Ronnie Scott’s Sally Greene OBE in our latest magazine, and has as usual Kim has been very busy. She has released a brand-new original track and video - **'Uniquely the Same' **featuring Ashley Slater and Antonio Forcione, one of twelve tracks from her forthcoming album 'Catching Moments', due for release on all music platforms on 22nd November:
Following her recent sell-out Album Preview show at Ronnie Scott's, Kim is launching the album at Dunkerton's in her hometown of Cheltenham on Thursday 3rd October. The Album Launch event features Kim's 7-piece ALL-STAR band plus special guest Ray Gelato on vocals and tenor saxophone and The Flaming Feathers dancers. The evening will be compered by Jazz FM's David Freeman. You can click here to book tickets this spectacular event
‘Italian London-based singer Germana Stella La Sorsa migrated from Puglia, Italy, in 2017 and quickly established herself on the London jazz scene. “Nudging boundaries as she goes” (The Slow MusicMovement) and exploring “the crossroads of many musical components, including story, composition, genre and style as well as instrumentation and effect” (London Jazz News), La Sorsa released her debut album‘Vapour’ in 2021 on 33 Jazz Records.
Following the success of her first record, the singer melds her disparate influences in her second studio album, ‘Primary Colours’. Praised as “a sure-fire statement of her confident stature amongst London’s top jazz cats” (Presto Music), La Sorsa’s new work continues to ride the contemporary/avant-garde jazz wave, further exploring the boundaries of improvisation and sound experimentation and drawing upon modern sounds and grooves, from drum’ n bass to Latin music.’
Ashaine White is on fire creating a unique and much needed space for new music. She was recently interview by NME which you can read here
‘I'm delighted and excited to share a project very dear to me, and frankly something I've been doing ever since I became a professional musician: education . Over the years I've been fortunate enough to tour and perform extensively, as well as train both off stage and on stage. My approach to music has always been under the firm belief that when you are performing, you are learning and when you are teaching, you're always learning.
As an educator. My approach to music has always embodied this idea of creating a space for musicians and non musicians to actually commit to the artistic process. After all, this is at the very heart of what being an artist and musician is, and for that matter, what being creative is. Therefore, it gives me great joy to officially launch my Songwriting Mentorship Program titled 'The Notes Between '.
Our new Women in Jazz Media Playlist is now out: Volume 36!
We publish a new playlist each month and try to share a wide range of women from across the world - new releases, legacy artists, new and established artists and also some women we think you should know about but maybe don't! We keep it to 15 artists per playlist to give you time to discover, listen and share these incredible women.
Do please get in touch if you have music you would like us to include - either your own or recommendations. We are especially keen to share music from female instrumentalists and composers.