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.

We are working on a range of projects at the moment, including preparing for our next magazine which comes out in July, wellbeing initiatives and the EFG London Jazz Festival.

Isabel Marquez leads on our playlist and you can find our latest volume by clicking here As always we would encourage you share and buy music directly from the artists if you can.

You can catch up on all our recent podcasts including Hannah Horton’s ‘In Conversation With…’ talking to Laura Impallomeni, Lara Eidi’s ‘The Notes Between’ with Moira Smiley and our ‘On The Bookcase’ talking to Judith Tick.

Our next event is our Jazz Sisters: A celebration of vocal jazz. A benefit event for Anita Wardell. A special event to celebrate jazz vocalists and women in the jazz industry to raise money for renowned jazz vocalist Anita Wardell. Five outstanding vocalists from the British jazz scene, Vimala Rowe, Lily Dior, Esther Bennett, Diana Torti and Fiona Ross will bring their unique artistry to a range of jazz standards in an evening full of jazz tradition and elegant atmosphere, accompanied by one of the UK’s most loved pianists, Wendy Kirkland.

This will be held at Karamel Club, London and you can find out more and buy tickets here

Tatiana Gorilovsky has been out and about as always taking stunning photos and shared some of her most recent shots with us, including Sahra Gure (at the new residence of the SpiceJazzSoho, in Zedel)  Irene Serra (with the ISQ in Pizza Express Soho) and photos from the recent Alina Bzhezhinska gig supporting Ukraine in the Cockpit with Jo Harrop and Nikki King.

Wendy Kirkland is returning to Ronnie Scott’s on June 3rd  with Randy Johnston and Pat Sprakes. Wendy normally sells out at Ronnie’s so grab your tickets here and quickly!

New team member Mary Sho has recorded her first episode for our relaunch of the ‘Kicking Down The Door’ podcast series! We have a very special guest, and we cannot wait to share this with you! Coming very soon.

Our new team member Betty Accorsi has published her first review in our Jazz in Europe column! Dolomite is the 5th EP release of the Italian born and London based singer and composer Maddalena Ghezzi, and you can read the review by clicking here

Betty was also thrilled to appear in a book! Talking the Groove by Chris Searle (published by Jazz in Britain) and you can see Betty live with her quartet at the Hampstead Jazz Club on June 13th ‘Join Betty Accorsi in her musical journey, which will bring you to discover the route of the tea clipper Cutty Sark from China to London and explore the beauties of Brighton’. You can buy tickets here

And for even more incredible Italian women, Germana Stella La Sorsa is playing at Off The Rails on Sunday 9th of June with her quartet featuring trombonist Laura Impallomeni. You can buy tickets here

​And lastly Fiona Ross has been busy as always. She recently spent time in Paris with our patron Maxine Gordon where they met with drummer Sylvia Cuenca, saw some great music, visited book stores and followed in James Baldwin’s footsteps. Fiona was also recently invited to attend the prestigious Oxford Cultural Leaders programme, with her Women in Jazz Media hat on and is now an Oxford University alumni. Fancy. As a member of the Jazz Journalist Association and their book committee, Fiona was especially thrilled to see Book of the Year About Jazz: History, Criticism and Culture, awarded to In Search of a Beautiful Freedom, by Farah Jasmine Griffin and The Lona Foote-Bob Parent Award for Career Excellence in Photography to Adriana Mateo. You can read all about the winners here