Nick Tipping shines a spotlight on some of the finest female trailblazers in jazz – including Melba Liston the first woman trombonist to play in big bands; one of the first women to run a big band Toshiko Akiyoshi, and Dorothy Ashby who pioneered jazz on the harp.
Music Details
Diana Krall
Deed I Do
Lee/Schluger
Live in Paris
Verve
Marian McPartland
Bohemia After Dark
Pettiford
Marian McPartland Trio
Capitol
Melba Liston
Blues Melba
Liston
Melba Liston and her 'Bones
MetroJazz
Shirley Horn
The Eagle And Me
Arlen / Harburg
Ultimate Shirley Horn
Verve
Emily Remler
Daahoud
Brown
East to Wes
Concord
Billie Holiday
Good Morning Heartache
Higginbotham / Drake / FIsher
Billie Holiday Songbook
Verve
Regina Carter
Skeeter Blues
Nash
Rhythms of the Heart
Verve
Mary Lou Williams
Mary Lou's Blues
Williams
Her Progressive Piano Stylings
King
Ella Fitzgerald
Desafinado
Jobim
Verve
Dorothy Ashby
My Secret Love
Fain / Webster
Dorothy Ashby
Argo
Sarah Vaughan
Moonlight in Vermont
Suessdorf
A Lover's Concerto
Mercury
Charmaine Ford
Midnight Char-donnay
Ford
After the Last Dance
Ford Motion Records (FMR)
