Jazzwomen
Subtitle: Conversations With Twenty-One Musicians (Includes CD)
Edition: Har/Com edition
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: May 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9780253344366
Subjects: Jazz; Women's studies; Biography / Autobiography; Music; Composers & Musicians - Jazz; Genres & Styles - Jazz; Women; Interviews; Women jazz musicians
First sentence: Soprano saxophonist and composer Jane Ira Bloom has received international recognition for her novel explorations of sound as affected by motion and space.
Description: "Between 1995 and 2000, Wayne Enstice and Janis Stockhouse interviewed dozens of women jazz instrumentalists and vocalists. Jazzwomen collects 21 of the most fascinating interviews. The participants discuss everything - their personal lives, musical training and inspirations, recordings, relationships with other musicians, the music industry, sexism on the bandstand - and often make candid and revealing statements. At the end of each interview is a recommended discography compiled by the authors." "Every jazz listener, musician, teacher, and student will be captivated by interviews with Marian McPartland, Regina Carter, Abbey Lincoln, Cassandra Wilson, Diana Krall, and their peers. Includes a sampler CD with complete works by several of the artists, including Jane Ira Bloom and Ingrid Jensen."--BOOK JACKET.