6. Women and the Jazz Challenge
Composers, Arrangers, Conductors, and Instrumentalists

Listen
All audio materials should be available through the Public Radio MusicSource®, most record stores, The Smithsonian Institution, and some public libraries.

• Forty Years of Women in Jazz: Various Artists (Jass CD 9/10)
• Andy Kirk and Mary Lou Williams: Mary's Idea (Decca/GRD 622)
• Dorothy Ashby: Concerto de Aranjuez (Philips 814 197-2)
• Jane Ira Bloom: Mighty Lights (Enja R2 79662)
• Shirly Scott: Queen of the Organ (Impulse GRD 323)
• The Dorothy Donegan Trio with Clark Terry (Chiaroscuro CR (d) 232)
• Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra: Carnegie Hall Concert (Columbia CK 48805)
• Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra: Coming About (Enja ENJ 9069 2)
• The Very Big Carla Bley Big Band (Watt 23 847 942-2)
• Marian McPartland with Strings: Silet Pool (Concord Jazz 4745-2)

View
The videos listed with an asterisk (*) can be ordered from Jamey Aebersold Jazz Inc., P.O. Box 1244C, New Albany, IN 47151-1224 (800-456-1388).

• Toshiko Akiyoshi Orchestra: Strive for Jive (A 236)*
• Shirly Horn Sings and Plays: Here's to Life (A 254)*
• Carla Bley and Steve Swallow: Very Very Simple (A 259)*

Read

• Dahl, Linda. Stormy Weather: The Music and Lives of a Century of Jazz Women. Pantheon Books, New York, 1984.
• Haridy, D. Antoinette. Black Women in American Bands and Orchestras. Scarecrow Press, Metuchen NJ, 1983.
• Placksin, Sally. American Women in Jazz 1900 to the Present: Their Words, Lives and Music. Seaview Books, New York, 1982.

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