Women In Jazz Series

07/17/2024

Jazz Bridge presented A Powerful, Talented Woman of Jazz last night and she meant business!!!

Saxist Fostina Dixon from Delaware, mowed everyone down with her leadership and sax prowess, proving Women are bosses in the band!

Of course, you can’t loose with a boss ensemble headed by area legend on the keyboard, Dennis Fortune and badass bass man Michael Cruze of Fortune,Vincent(RIP) and Cruze fame. Drummer Kevin James held it down for everyone exciting the audience with his directed drumming. Y’all missed a great one!

06/03/2024

An All-star cast came out to pay tribute to our First Lady of the Jazz Guitar, band leader and prolific composer Monnette Sudler. Just to name a few Sumi Tonooka, Trapeta Masson, Yolanda Wisher, Karen Smith, Steve Green, Webb Thomas, Steve Beskrone, Paul Giest, V. Shayne Frederick, Richard Hill, Jr., J. Michael Harrison, Aaron Graves, Kendra Butler Waters, Bill Mills, Kenneth Johnson of Jazz Bridge, Lynn Riley, Jan Jeffries, and on and on!!!

05/31/2024

Remembering and Honoring a great lady of Jazz. Monnette Sudler, a native Philadelphian who picked up the guitar and used it to create beautiful music played around the world. I get to sing a song in her honor this coming Sunday. Hope you can make it.

02/13/2024

History then, history now!

Dan revisits a great "theme of the week," playing seminal and modern women in jazz, alongside new and smooth sounds. The show kicks off at 6pm.

02/04/2024

Did you know?

02/04/2024

Love Lady Drummers!

'Vivid and always entertaining, The Lady Swings tells Dottie Dodgion's story with the same verve and straight-ahead honesty that powered her playing.

Dottie Dodgion is a jazz drummer who played with the best. A survivor, she lived an entire lifetime before she was seventeen. Undeterred by hardships, she defied the odds and earned a seat as a woman in the exclusive men’s club of jazz. Her dues-paying path as a musician took her from early work with Charles Mingus to being hired by Benny Goodman at Basin Street East on her first day in New York. From there she broke new ground as a woman who played a “man’s instrument” in first-string, all-male New York City jazz bands. Her inspiring memoir talks frankly about her music and the challenges she faced, and shines a light into the jazz world of the 1960s and 1970s.'

https://buff.ly/3dUpqeV

02/02/2024

She’s getting down into it!

Steph Richards by Tom Leentjes

01/28/2024

A Woman in Jazz Legacy!

Vi Redd
'Mia Jenkins shares the story of Vi Redd, a pioneering Black female saxophonist and singer whose legacy has long been overlooked. '
https://buff.ly/3spqqyx

01/13/2024

Talent x’s Two! Limited seating, $5 off advance ticket purchase. More at the door!

12/24/2023

Busy month of December playing around town! Happy Holidays everyone!!!

11/28/2023

Two Women of Jazz combining forces for a Jazzy Holiday Concert! Who doesn’t love crooner/pianist/composer Nat King Cole?
Well, plan to join us in celebrating his Christmas Song Legacy with our own modern day crooner Kevin Valentine! Bar Drinks available, food for purchase. Thursday, December 21st, 2023. 7pm.

11/20/2023

One of my favorite songs to sing! The Lamp is Low. Got a chance to share at my Bad Ass Bass Showcase, Sunday, November 19, 2023.
Thanks to all who came out! This one’s for you.

11/04/2023

Jazz & Art, A Perfect Combination!

10/19/2023

My Hats Off To A Jazzy Great Black Woman!

In 1930, Katherine Dunham formed Ballet Negre, which was one of just a few ballet companies available to black students at the time. Shortly thereafter, struggling with a lack of financial support, the company disbanded. In 1933, she opened her first dance school in Chicago (the Negro Dance Group) for young black dancers. In 1934, she revived Ballet Negre with performers from her dance school. In 1939, she became the dance director of the New York Labor Stage, and six years later she opened the Dunham School of Dance in New York.
Miss Dunham was an international personality. She used bodies in motion to create ties among peoples of the African diaspora. During a tour in the late 1940s, one critic called Dunham an “ambassador with hips.” Miss Dunham said about her dance company: “Without Europe, we couldn’t have survived” (Aschenbrenner, conversation with the author, 1978). The Dunham Company toured to enthusiastic reviews from the 1930s through the 1950s, including venues in Mexico, London, Paris, South America, Australia, New Zealand, and Asia and throughout the United States.
Katherine Dunham, circa 1940s..” Photo: Corbis.

09/15/2023

Congratulations to Broderick Milliford and Ashanti Niche’ Adderly for braving the challenge to reopen the Laff House inside Caesar’s Casino’s Pier wing.

I got to meet some of my Comic heroes: Bruh Man & Jay Anthony Brown and Laff House Comedic Host Zachary Pickett.

09/02/2023

Loved being able to display the power of Women in Jazz last night to a full house of jazz lovers at Jamey’s House of Music.

My first time playing with lady ivory tickler Ms. Kathy Wallace, who aptly handled the lead, along with killer precise Jerry Tannenbaum on drums, and the multi-talented Dave Reiter switching up to play the electric bass. A great, fun time had by all!

Despite the water damage in the smaller dining room section at Jamey’s, the show must go on!Special thanks to all who are contributing to the GoFundMe campaign to repair the ceiling, Jamey is clearly touched!

08/31/2023

The Nile is a hidden gem all should experience.

08/31/2023

If you’re Facebook friends with world renowned bassist Ron Carter, know that he pays attention!

08/12/2023

Art & Jazz, a perfect combination.

08/05/2023

Support Women In Jazz Philadelphia!

https://energyhealingcenterofphl.com/classes/ola/services/ladies-jazz-night-out

06/19/2023

Jazz on the Square Series kick off weekend at the Ethical Society 6-18-23.

04/25/2023

Our monthly cable tv series “Women In Jazz”Episode 12 featuring Monnette Sudler will showcased on Philly’s Arts and Culture Channel Arts Access TV for Jazz Appreciation Month on April 26& 28th at 6pm. Tune in online or via your cable tv provider!

04/10/2023

Did you know about her?

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03/26/2023

Join us for jazzy dinner!

01/20/2023

Had a blast with my musical crew at Wilson’s Restaurant and Live Music on Customer Appreciation Night, 1-19-23 held every Thursday night, no cover.

11/09/2021

Announcing our new website:

https://womeninjazzseriesphiladelphia.com/

Feedback requested!

Philadelphia

11/09/2021

Announcing our new website:

https://womeninjazzseriesphiladelphia.com/

Feedback requested!

11/08/2021

We love her! Check out our episode on her online at PhillyCAM/Watch.

Hazel Scott was a child musical prodigy, receiving scholarships to study at the Juilliard School when she was only eight years old.

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10/31/2021

We honor the First Lady of Jazz here!!!

10/25/2021

Building a shelter for Women recently released from incarceration. A great need, please donate!