Our new Women in Jazz Media Playlist is now out: Volume 42. 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!  

This month we release a special edition playlist showcasing some of the legendary women who paved the way. You find it here on You Tube

Vi Redd - click here to read Mia Jenkins article ‘Vi Redd: the under-recorded, over-looked empress of jazz’

Melba Liston - click here to read our patron Maxine Gordon’s article ‘Dexter Gordon and Melba Liston: The “Mischievous Lady” Session’

Hazel Scott - click to read about Hazel Scott at the National Women's History Museum 

Velma Middleton - click here to visit the virtual Louis Armstrong museum: “Solid!” A Celebration of Velma Middleton’

Tiny Davis - Click here to read Charlotte Keeffe article about Tiny Davis in our magazine 

Maxine Sullivan - click here to read the feature in the National Museum of African American History and Culture

Dotty Dodgion - click here to purchase The Lady Swings: Memoirs of a Jazz Drummer

Shirley Scott - click here to read Christina Pazzanese interview in The Harvard Gazette with Maxine Gordon and her time with Shirley Scott and more.

Valdia Snow - click here to read ‘The Stage Belonged To Her’ in the National Museum of African American History and Culture

Viola Smith - click here to read Cree McCree article in Downbeat ‘Pioneering Drummer Viola Smith Was ‘An Advocate For The Rights Of All Women Musicians’

Lil Hardin - click here to read team member Aydenne Simone’s article in our Jazz in Europe column ‘Lil Hardin: A Pillar in the Rear View Mirror by Aydenne Simone’ 

Mary Osborne - click here to read Unsung Women of Jazz – Mary Osborne in Jazz Arts

Betty Carter - click here to read ‘5 mins that will make you love Betty Carter’ in the New York Times

Alice Coltrane - click here to read Stuart Nicholson’s Alice Coltrane: the high priestess of spiritual jazz in Jazzwise

Dorothy Ashby - click here to read How Dorothy Ashby Made the Harp Swing’ by Julian Lucas  in the New Yorker