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Amazing Musicwomen at Jazz @ MCC
Courtesy of Dr. Joan Cartwright | Posted on March 9, 2012
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Sat, April 21, 2012
8:30 - Midnight
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Using historical overview, songs, photographs and artwork, this one-hour presentation chronicles the lives of women who wrote and performed jazz music, including Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, Alberta Hunter, Ethel Waters, Lil Harding Armstrong, Mary Lou Williams, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughn, Marian McPartland, Dorothy Donegan, Melba Liston, Abbey Lincoln, Betty Carter, Carmen McRae, Joanne Brackeen, Tania Maria, Toshiko Akiyoshi and others. Concert selections include compositions of Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, Cole Porter, Norman Mapp and Joan Cartwright.
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