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Senri Kawaguchi. Senri Kawaguchi (川口 千里, Kawaguchi Senri) is a Japanese jazz and fusion drummer. In Japan she is sometimes known as tekazuhime (手数姫), ("Princess of Many Strokes"). [1] She has the image of a gecko on the front of her 20-inch bass drum, and on her Zildjian drumsticks. [2] She has won many awards for her drumming.
Mindi Abair (born 1969) Lorez Alexandria (1929–2001) Karrin Allyson (born 1963) Michelle Amato. Ernestine Anderson (1928–2016) Ivie (Ivy) Anderson (1904–1949) Ernie Andrews (1927–2022) Julie Andrews (born 1935) Paul Anka (born 1941)
Women in jazz have contributed throughout the many eras of jazz history, both as performers and as composers, songwriters and bandleaders. While women such as Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald were famous for their jazz singing, women have achieved much less recognition for their contributions as composers, bandleaders and instrumental performers.
C. Jackie Cain; Ann Hampton Callaway; Blanche Calloway; Ruth Cameron; Camille (American singer) Una Mae Carlisle; Barbara Carroll; Thelma Carpenter; Betty Carter
Calendar Girls is a 2003 British comedy film directed by Nigel Cole.Produced by Touchstone Pictures, it features a screenplay by Tim Firth and Juliette Towhidi, based on a true story of a group of middle-aged Yorkshire women who produced a nude calendar to raise money for Leukaemia Research (subsequently Blood Cancer UK) under the auspices of the Women's Institutes in April 1999 after the ...
Melissa Morrison Higgins (born 19 August 1983), stage name Missy Higgins, is an Australian singer-songwriter and musician. Her most popular singles include "Scar", "Steer", and "Where I Stood". Her Australian number-one albums are The Sound of White (2004), On a Clear Night (2007) and The Ol' Razzle Dazzle (2012).
The Festival International de Jazz de Montréal (English: Montreal International Jazz Festival) is an annual jazz festival held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The Montreal Jazz Fest holds the 2004 Guinness World Record as the world's largest jazz festival. Every year it features roughly 3,000 artists from 30-odd countries, more than 650 concerts ...
Ella Jane Fitzgerald was born on April 25, 1917, in Newport News, Virginia. [2] She was the daughter of William Ashland Fitzgerald, a transfer wagon driver from Blackstone, Virginia, and Temperance "Tempie" Henry, both described as mulatto in the 1920 census. [3]