Women in Jazz Media (WJM) are delighted to announce the first exhibition of 2026 at the Manchester Jazz Festival!

Manchester Jazz Festival (mjf) is the city’s longest running music festival and is an established part of Manchester’s cultural heritage. First staged in the summer of 1996, the annual festival has grown to feature hundreds of musicians, across 60+ free and ticketed events each year. The festival traverses the city’s music venues and public spaces, which in 2025 include First Street, Matt & Phreds, Band on the Wall, St Ann’s Church, Band on the Wall, The Stoller Hall, The Carlton Club and Forsyths. New and original work is championed, and regional, national and international artists celebrated through our performances, commissions and premieres.

Bringing together inspirational women from across the globe, the photography exhibition: Women in Jazz Photography: Her Frame. Her Sound will be at The Social space at Aviva Studios 15 – 24 May inclusive during the Manchester Jazz Festival.

To find out more about MJF please click here To see the line up for the MJF click here The exhibition is free, but do book tickets for music events by clicking here

A unique opportunity to celebrate women working in jazz both behind and in front of the camera. Inspirational moments in jazz captured by some of the incredible female photographers leading the way in jazz photography. Exhibiting legends such as Geri Allen, Abbey Lincoln, Alice Coltrane, Nina Simone to contemporary artists including Lakecia Benjamin, Nubya Garcia and Brandee Younger, there has never been an exhibition like this. Legendary and award-winning photographers from South Africa, New York, Poland and the United Kingdom, this breathtaking exhibition features the work of Monika S Jakubowksa, Vuyo Giba, Tatiana Gorilovsky, Enid Farber and Kasia Ociepa.

Our new Women in Jazz Media Playlist is now out: Volume 46! 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: 

Sarah Elizabeth Charles    Sacha Boutros    Ramona Horvath   Anaiis

       Emma Rawicz    Johanna Linnea Jakobson    Jane Ira Bloom    

   Chihiro Yamanaka     Jasna Jovićević     Nabou      Bria Skonberg

Macha Gharibian     Tomoko Omura     Jas Kayser     Alberta Hunter

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.

Our new magazine is out now!!!

Our 14th edition and with a new logo too – inspired by China Moses!

Click here

This edition is full of women from across the globe. The dream is that Women in Jazz Media does not need to exist. The dream is that everyone across the world is heard, valued and supported, irrelevant of gender, age, ethnicity, disability or which instrument they play. A place where we all just talk about and enjoy great music. We are far from being there. In the age of AI, authenticity is even more important. This magazine is real. These are real artists, real writers, real music and real images. It is our honour to present stories, experiences, pain and joy through imagery, music, words and support from the contributors in this edition.

This is an interactive magazine, so please do click away to visit websites, buy music, watch videos etc, or you can download as a pdf. Please take your time.  Take a moment away from your phone and enjoy the photography on a larger screen. Please share the incredible artists you see here with your communities. Together we can support each other, we can inspire each other, and we can enjoy art, in all forms, together.

 Featuring

 Enid Farber  EyiTemi  Isabel Marquez  J Steps  Jasna Jovićević

Kasia Opecia  Kathy Stobart  Kim Cypher  Melanie Scholtz

Migdalia Van Der Hoven  Monika S Jakubowska  Nabou Claerhout

Nichola Pope  Nomfundo Xaluva  Nothmeba Madumo

Paulette Jackson  Rin Seo  Sacha Boutros  Shireen Fisher

Tatiana Gorilovsky  Tori Freestone

and so much more!

Welcome to the latest episode of our podcast series’ The Notes Between’ with Lara Eidi. Conversations exploring everything behind and about the world of songwriting! Our theme music ‘Breathe Love’ is from Lara Eidi herself available here

In this episode, Lara talks to Alba Cabral

Available on Spotify  Apple and all major podcast platforms

Alba Cabral is an award-winning Brazilian musician who began her career as a teenage percussionist in São Paulo’s street parades. After earning a degree in Languages from the University of São Paulo, she pursued further music studies in Europe and the UK. Based in London for 16 years, Alba completed a Master’s in Music Leadership at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, performing at festivals, recording as a singer and instrumentalist, and teaching in schools.

Her training includes Body Percussion (Barbatuques), Body Music (Keith Terry), Senegalese Sabar (Modou Diouf), and Brazilian Percussion (Ari Colares). Recently, Alba released her debut single “Xote da Amamentação”, a heartfelt tribute to motherhood and breastfeeding, featuring guest musicians—mostly mothers—and artwork by Ula Basinska. Available on all digital platforms.

 Alba website

Athens born to Lebanese Canadian parents, Lara Eidi is an artist that thrives on being different. As an independent artist, singer and multi- instrumentalist, she has carved a path for herself that continuously aimed at reshaping and developing her voice as a storyteller. An accomplished and reputable singer-songwriter, pianist, recording artist and jazz- folk vocalist of her own accord based in London and Athens. Her music has gained her critical acclaim as a genre bending artist (BBC Artist, 2020), described as “a singer with true gift of a voice, a kind soul, and a captivating presence.” (Jazz UK). At the heart of her being as a multi-disciplinary artist, she is sought after as a composer for vocal film scores, writes as a freelance music journalist, and is in demand as a creative workshop leader. Her music seeks to elevate and heal, and as a result, she creates genre- defying songs with a great emphasis on story telling. Her latest album ‘Sun’, her long awaited debut album, is all about pulling the threads of her folk, acoustic rock and jazz-classical upbringing to her message of hope, empowerment, and freedom. As a soloist, her recent debut performance at the infamous Royal Albert Hall, singing select pieces from Greece and Lebanon form the Medieval Byzantine Traditions sees Lara engaging on a series of select and innovative performances with the SAUDHA Indian Classical Music Association. 

Lara Eidi website

Our new Women in Jazz Media Playlist is now out: Volume 45! 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: 

    Hohnen Ford         Emily Masser        Jamile          Amanda Monaco       La Tanya Hall    

        Kate Wyatt          China Moses        Dara Starr Tucker       Dee Byrne    Farah Audhali

   Tanita Takaram        Gloria Yehilevsky     ESKA      Jasmine Myra       Lena Horne

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.