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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.
It includes jazz composers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "Women jazz composers" The following 68 pages are in this category, out of 68 total.
Ruth Brown (1928–2006) Ane Brun (born 1976) Mari Kvien Brunvoll (born 1984) Joyce Bryant (1928–2022) Beryl Bryden (1920–1998) Michael Bublé (born 1975) Sarah Buechi (born 1981)
Pages in category "American women jazz singers" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 410 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
Jazz saxophonists are musicians who play various types of saxophones (alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone etc.) in jazz and its associated subgenres. The techniques and instrumentation of this type of performance have evolved over the 20th century, influenced by both movements of musicians that became the subgenres and by particularly influential sax players who helped reshape ...
Jazz drummer Born in Chicago Kanye West: Jun 8, 1977: Rapper and producer Grew up in the South Shore neighborhood of Chicago Verdine White: Jul 25, 1951: Bassist and Founding member for Earth Wind & Fire: Born in Chicago Pharez Whitted: Aug 26, 1960: Jazz trumpeter, composer, educator Wesley Willis: May 31, 1963: Aug 21, 2003: Singer born in ...
Women jazz musicians. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Jazz musicians. It includes jazz musicians that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Female jazz musicians.
Jazz fusion bassist Jaco Pastorius was known for his expressive fretless electric bass playing. In the experimental post 1960s eras, which saw the development of free jazz and jazz-rock fusion, some of the influential bassists included Charles Mingus (1922–1979) and free jazz and post-bop bassist Charlie Haden (1937–2014).