She Said / She Says is a comprehensive program highlighting some of the many important achievements of female composers, arrangers, instrumentalists and vocalists from early 20th century through present-day.
Using U.S. and 20th Century women's history as a backdrop, She Said / She Says celebrates the lives of some of the many courageous, creative women who have dedicated their lives to the serious study and practice of jazz music.
She Said/She Says: The History and Status of Women in Jazz | Kennedy Center (kennedy-center.org)
Con Alma y Fuego ("With Soul and Fire") traverses the origins and evolution of the Latin/Afro-Caribbean jazz traditions and highlights the contributions and music of groundbreaking artists such as: Mario Bauza, Machito, Dizzy Gillespie, Chico O’Farrill, Tito Puetne, Mongo Santamaria, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Irakere, Eddie Palmieri and Fort Apache just to name a few and aims to elucidate the degree to which both the American Experience and the sound of jazz have been greatly influenced, enhanced, expanded and refined by these rich, soulful cultural heritages.
While jazz has long been considered a distinctly American art form, it cannot be denied that the form is and always has been a stylistic amalgam of the many rich cultural traditions that defines the American experience. In fact, it’s out cultural diversity in particular that exemplifies the very meaning of “distinctly American.”
Firmly steeped in the African American experience, jazz artists have always been curious, creative, globetrotting explorers in search of new sounds, new rhythms, new harmonies, and melodies as a means by which to expand their musical vocabularies and palettes of artistic expression. “Latin Jazz” (as its commonly known) is, in effect, an approach to playing jazz that integrates traditionally American jazz forms, concepts and sensibilities with rhythms, harmonies, melodies and instruments from the African, Caribbean, and South American musical traditions.
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