Our new Women in Jazz Media Playlist is now out: Volume 44! 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 knowi 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: 

               Georgia Mancio    Ingrid Laubrock   Eyitemi    Natalie Cressman    

                       Rin Seo    Louise Dodds        Victoria Kirilova     Sarah Wilson   

                               Arowah       Laura Jurd        Ineza     Nina Simone   

              Josephine Davies and the Enso Ensemble   Yuhan Su  Rebecca Vasmant

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.

Bringing together inspirational women from across the globe, the award-winning Women in Jazz Media organisation in partnership with Black Mountain Jazz Club brings their exclusive photography exhibition: Women in Jazz Photography: Her Frame. Her Sound to The Melville Centre Abergavenny.

Black Mountain Jazz is proud to celebrate with Kasia Ociepa, whose inclusion highlights her growing talent and her ability to capture the heart and soul of jazz through her photography.

“I feel proud, humbled, and grateful — seeing my work on the wall is surreal but a real confidence boost. It reassures me I’m good enough and inspires me to keep creating and trust that my perspective belongs here.” Kasia Ociepa Photographer

Women in Jazz Media are an award winning not for profit organisation who promote, support and celebrate women who work in Jazz, through a range of exciting initiatives.

Their entirely female led online magazines have seen readership grow to almost 50,000 over the past four years and photography has always been at the fore front of their work. They facilitated the inclusion of the first female photographers in the National Jazz Archive in 2022.

Fiona Ross, founder of Women in Jazz Media explains ‘it is time for women on the walls! Where would we be without photography? Photography captures incredible moments and gift us with those memories. Artists need photos, venues need photos, publications need photos and audiences cherish photos. And yet, photographers are rarely credited and often photos are used without permission. This is a significant issue for all photographers irrelevant of gender.  Walk into most jazz clubs across the world and you will likely see some incredible photography which helps to encapsulate the feel and vibe of the club. But who took the photos? Are they credited? And if you are lucky enough to see women on the walls, they are rarely instrumentalists. It is time to change the narrative.’

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 Black Mountain Jazz resident photographer Kasia Ociepa.

This is an important, not to be missed exhibition and we are delighted to host as part of our wall2wall Jazz Festival here in Abergavenny.

The Photographers

Enid Farber resides in New York City and has been photographing mostly jazz musicians since 1979 but her work includes artists from a variety of genres, including Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Ray Charles, Bob Marley, Charlie Watts, Diana Ross, Bono and Celia Cruz who have all appeared before her lens. In the 20th anniversary issue Jazziz, said,"If we were to identify a JAZZIZ visual historian, her name would no doubt be Enid Farber. For longer than a decade, her photography has taken readers on an odyssey, to experience the most adventurous music and to meet the most interesting personalities, from both the new and traditional worlds of jazz."

Vuyo Giba is a South African -based photographer, writer, and creative professional dedicated to preserving South African jazz heritage. Her work spans jazz, abstract, and lifestyle photography, capturing evocative narratives through imagery. With experience in film production, research, and project coordination, she collaborates with artists and communities to document and celebrate cultural stories.

Tatiana Gorilovskyis a London-based photographer specializing in music photography, particularly jazz. She has captured the dynamic spirit of the genre for renowned venues such as Ronnie Scott’s, Pizza Express, 606 and others, as well as festivals including the EFG London Jazz Festival and Love Supreme Festival. Tatiana loves experimenting with long exposure and multiple exposure to capture the sounds, rhythm and energy of Jazz. Her images are held in the National Jazz Archive and have been featured in prominent publications such as Jazzwise Magazine, The Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, Billboard, UK Jazz News, The Independent, Time Out London and others

Kasia Ociepa is a Wales-based photographer specialising in jazz, events, weddings, and portrait photography, with a deep love for fine art photography. Originally from Poland, she moved to the UK in 2006 and transitioned from garden design to professional photography during lockdown. As the resident photographer for Black Mountain Jazz Club, she has documented the club’s vibrant jazz scene, with her images used by musicians for album covers, press materials, and social media. Kasia sees photography as storytelling, capturing the energy and emotion of live music, and she is always happy to collaborate with musicians and event organisers.

The award-winning photographer Monika S Jakubowska is renowned across the world.  As the in-house photographer for prestigious London venues, Ronnie Scott’s and Kings Place, she has captured award winning images of legends and is the photographer of choice by many artists. Her portfolio is vast and includes Jeff Goldblum, Genesis, Macy Gray, John Legend, Jazz royalty Dee Dee Bridgewater, George Clinton and Courtney Pine to name a few. Darius Brubeck included Monika’s photographer in his foreword to the brilliant book Sight Readings: Photographers and American Jazz, which was nominated for book of the year by the jazz Journalist Association. She is the go to photographer for esteemed publications including The Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Financial Times, Jazzwise and Women in Jazz Media and she is one of two first female photographers to be included in the National Jazz Archive in the UK where her work is on permanent display.

The women in Jazz Media Exhibition runs from the 21st September - 4th October.

​Location: THE MELVILLE CENTRE FOR THE ARTS CIC

Pen-y-Pound Abergavenny Monmouthshire NP7 5UD

Gallery opening times – www.melvillecentre.org.uk

Tel: 01873 853167

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 Anjali Perin

Our podcasts have been featured at number 7 on the Top 10 Women In Media Podcasts on the web by Feedspot and you can also find our podcasts at number 9 in the top 60 Best Jazz Podcasts in FeedSpot!

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Anjali Perin is a vocalist, pianist, songwriter and arranger-producer specialising in jazz, funk and soul working as a full time musician since graduating from the Jazz Masters programme at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama after leaving her previous career as a corporate lawyer to pursue her musical path. . Her first jazz album was signed to Jazzizit records and featured some of the best jazz musicians in the UK.

She works as a performer, songwriter with a variety of freelance musicians across the British jazz and soul scene, and is a University lecturer on songwriting degree and Masters programmes in London.  In 2016, she established a community choir for Mums in her local area of St Albans, Mamas With Voices,  and has also worked a deputy choir-leader with the NHS choir Breathe Harmony featuring staff from St Thomas’ and Guys’ Hospitals in London as a Breathe Arts Health Research Artist.

She has also lectured in higher music education for a number of years and is currently a Senior Lecturer on the Master in Songwriting and Bachelor of Songwriting programmes at the Institute of Contemporary Music Ltd in London. Where she teaches a variety of writing and perfomance-focussed Modules.

Anjali’s performing highlights performing with her own bands at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club, Pizza Express Jazz Club (Dean Street), the Spice of Life, Smollensky’s on the Strand and both the Royal Festival Hall and National Theatre as part of their jazz events programme. She has also performed at the Love Supreme festival and for Quincy Jones at The Montreux Jazz festival in Switzerland.

She is currently releasing singles from a 5 song EP of her original songs, recorded with her band at Eastcote studios in December 2019 and arranged and produced herself. She is releasing this material under a musical alter-ego POKKISHAM.

Anjali also recently was commissioned as lead composer to write the majority of songs for a work-in progress musical theatre work “The Coloured Valentino” with script by Beverly Andrews, which is in production under She’s Diverse and Circles Productions which has received funding for development by The Arts Council.

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 13th magazine in out now!

Full of incredible women, featuring interviews with  Lakecia Benjamin, China Moses, Veronica Swift, Kimberly M Wang, Thembi Dunjana, Ashley Jackson, Marianne McGregor, Betty Accorsi, Allegra Levy, J Steps, Melorie Jane, Bea Asurmendi Romy Summers stunning photography from Enid Farber, Monika S Jakubowska, Tatiana Gorilovsky, our guest curated playlist from Dr Brad Stone and so much more

Huge shout out to our magazine team Isabel Marquez, Enid Farber, Monika S Jakubowska, Germana Stella La Sorsa, Paulette Jackson, Tatiana Gorilovsky, Kim Cypher, Fiona Mactaggart, Fiona Ross and our guest contributors for this magazine Shireen Fisher and of course Dr Brad!

Our magazine is free, online and interactive. You can click on the album and book covers to go straight to the artist’s site to support and find out more. Accessible on all devices, due to the incredible photography, it is best viewed on an ipad or a large screen. You can also download as a pdf to read! All this is free and easy, you don’t have to sign up to anything, we just ask that if you find something you like, please share far and wide, and help to change the narrative.

Click here to view the magazine

If you find something you like, please share it far and wide, and help to change the narrative.

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 pianist, singer and composer  Fabienne Ambuehl

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Fabienne Ambuehl is a London-based pianist, singer and composer born in Switzerland. Her new album ‘Thrive‘ was released in January 2025 on the progressive label Ubuntu Music. The band successfully showcased the album at a

sold-out show at the Vortex Jazz Club in London. ‘Thrive‘ has received glowing reviews from the international jazz press. Jazzwise Magazine rewarded it four stars and it has received regular radio play in the UK, including BBC Radio 3 Jazz Record Requests, ‘Round Midnight and Night Tracks. On the Catalan public radio 3cat, there is an hour-long programme about Fabienne’s music and the single “New Ones” was featured track and on the JazzFM C playlist for several weeks. The album was also presented on Deutschlandfunkkultur and ARD Jazz - Das Magazin and was selected “Album of the Week” on both Presto Music and the German Rondo - Magazin für Klassik und Jazz.

Her band is a dynamic ensemble of brilliant musicians – Matt Ridley on bass (The Antidote, The Darius Brubeck Quartet) and Jon Scott on drums (Mulatu Astatke, GoGo Penguin, Sons of Kemet XL), with special guest guitarists Tom Ollendorff and Ant Law. Ambuehl has a strong sense of ensemble interplay and balance between individual expression and collective cohesion. As Rondo - Das Klassik & Jazz Magazin put it: “Thrive convinces with warmth, precision and excellent interplay of the band”.

Ambuehl’s music is inspired by her surroundings, from the sounds and silence of the mountains, where she finds a deep connection with nature, to the rhythms and soundscapes of the big city. Her melodic ideas and detailed arrangements are rooted in jazz, playing with a folk-tinge and showcase her expressive and supple piano playing. Her vocals “are crystal clear, distinct and refreshingly free of jazz clichés” (Neil Duggan, AllAboutJazz) and as a writer she “has a poetic sensibility and uses expertly a range of poetic techniques in her lyrics” (Trevor Hodgett, RNR magazine). Her first album, ‘Glitterwoods’ with Yuri Goloubev on bass and Asaf Sirkis on drums, was released on Traumton Records 2015. The album was very well received in the European jazz press and listed by UKvibe.com as an “Album Of The Year”. “Stripped-back minimalism and emotional depth, playfulness and maturity, and a profound jazz sensibility combined with a powerful romantic imagination, forge her unmistakable style”, wrote Norbert Krampf about Glitterwoods. In addition to leading her trio and quartet and performing solo, Fabienne has collaborated with the Noga Ritter band and worked in Senegal as an Arts Council England-supported residency. With Neele & the Soundvoyage she released an EP and the album ‘Visions’ (QFTF Berlin 2018), touring in Switzerland and Germany. She has conducted choirs herself for many years and was the soloist for Jazz Choir Freiburg who she toured in Germany and Austria and was their improvising soloist at the Eurovision Song Contest for Choirs in Riga, Latvia (2017).

Originally trained as a classical pianist, Fabienne fell in love with jazz after hearing a neighbour play the blues. At fourteen, she recorded her first album with a big band. She later completed a Master of Arts in Music from Lucerne University of Applied Sciences, further developing her singing at the Complete Vocal Institute in Copenhagen. Fabienne is a winner of Friedl Wald Stiftung Price and Förderpreis of Kanton Zug. Fabienne Ambuehl website click here

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

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 Canadian-British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Fiona Bevan

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Fiona has just released her self-produced ‘Girl With Telescope’ EP, including her dazzling exploration of post-heartbreak ecstasy ‘Faultlines’, and her acapella clarion call of female freedom and pleasure, ‘Peaches’.

She is now starting to release singles from her forthcoming self-produced EP ‘First Woman On The Moon’, a set of brand new songs exploring hope, love and female desire against a political backdrop, with otherworldly melodies on piano and unique guitar tunings.

Written, performed and produced by Fiona, these two sister EPs form an emotional, organic, uplifting, psychedelic journey. Her previous EP, ‘Wild Angels Sweet Demons’, was produced by Grammy award-winning engineer Robin Baynton (Laura Marling, Isaac Gracie), released independently, and went straight to number 2 in France, and number 7 in both the UK and Canada iTunes singer-songwriter charts. The EP was an eagerly awaited follow up to Fiona’s debut studio album, 'Talk To Strangers', which was one of iTunes “best of 2014” and was released in UK, Europe, Australia and Japan in 2014 and in USA and Canada in 2015 with Conveyor/Universal Canada.

Playing live, Fiona has toured Canada with Hawksley Workman and Whitehorse, Australia with Busby Marou, and in the UK with Ruston Kelly and The Wandering Hearts, after they met onstage playing at The Bluebird in Nashville; Fiona has also toured with Ed Sheeran, Nick Mulvey, Ingrid Michaelson, Adam Ant, and has played onstage accompanying Anoushka Shankar and Nitin Sawhney.

In between releases Fiona has been working as a multi-platinum songwriter, writing hit songs for Billie Marten, Aurora, Lewis Capaldi, Tom Walker, Kylie, Ed Sheeran, Matthew E. White and many more.

Fiona has played a throng of UK festivals including official showcases at Manchester Folk Festival and Great Escape, plus Isle Of Wight, Victorious, Cheltenham Jazz, Timber, and Smugglers, Red Rooster and How The Light Gets In, and is currently on a double headline UK 2025 tour with Adam Beattie.

Fiona is currently the face of the Credits Due Campaign working with Björn Ulvaeus from ABBA to help songwriters in the music industry. She fights for songwriter rights as a Director of the Ivors Academy.

Fiona Bevan website click here

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