TROMBONIST & EDUCATOR
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Women Composers and Performers: Expanding a Repertoire, Part I
Melba Liston (1926-1999) paved the way for women in jazz—especially trombonists and arrangers/composers. The world of jazz continues to be a male dominated field to this day. There may be many reasons for this: Jazz music has always had sexual associations—these associations are more easily made when women are not actually the ones performing the […]
MoreBreak the Silence
In my last post, I said that I had learned so much this year. It’s true, and I feel that I now have something to offer my fellow musicians, colleagues, and professors. When I began this blog, it was a class project (thanks Professor Manning!). I had not really given much thought to how I […]
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