Award-winning jazz bassist, educator and mentor Hayden, at age 68, is today the youngest recipient of Detroit’s highest arts ...

A cornerstone in the Metro Detroit jazz community, musician and educator Marion Hayden is the recipient of the 2025 Kresge ...

perseverance to be a female jazz musician and hold your own. And, of course, now there’s a much bigger movement of female jazz musicians on the scene, but Marion is kind of like the beginning of ...

Sasha Berliner is a musician, composer, producer, and band leader from San Francisco, CA. Sasha started playing drums at eight years old. She pursued a jazz emphasis at her high school, Oakland School ...

Coltrane, a jazz virtuoso who devoted much of her life to a spiritual journey, is a beacon for today’s artists. An exhibition ...

still doesn’t do justice to the vast array of female talent that exists. The history of Women in Jazz, no matter how hidden, is a rich and extensive one. In fact, ever since 1619, when the first black ...

She added that she was rumoured to be working in a factory, having “told everybody that the music business was too hard for her”. Either that or Hipp had returned to Germany. McPartland was writing a ...

After graduating high school at 14, she was invited to play the baritone saxophone in the all-female jazz band called the Prairie View Co-Eds at Prairie View A&M University. The band was formed after ...