The annual Women's Jazz Festival is celebrating 30 years of centering Black women in the field of jazz. The Women’s Jazz Festival was founded in 1992 by then Harlem resident and jazz vocalist, Melba Joyce. Year after year, the festival and its curators have brought together musicians, dancers and a melding of musical genres to deliver an exciting series of concerts featuring some of the best-known and emerging talent by women in jazz today. This public program with festival founder Melba Joyce and past festival curators Toshi Reagon, Brandee Younger, Aja Burrell Woods, discussing 30 years of curating the sound of the annual Women's Jazz Festival. The curators have have celebrated jazz legends Ella Fitzgerald, Abbey Lincoln, and Alice Coltrane and presented performances by The Spelman College Jazz Ensemble, Nona Hendryx, Terri Lyne Carrington, Gerri Allen, Jazzmeia Horn, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Courtney Bryan, Lakeica Benjamin, and Alicia Moran Hall to name a few. Robin Bell-Stevens, Director and Executive Producer of Jazzmobile Inc. will moderate the conversation. Following the conversation there will be a musical performance presented by Jazzmobile, Inc.
New York City, NY; NYC