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 […]
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