Women in Jazz

Harold Trio - Open Secrets (2019) Music

Posted by varrock at April 1, 2019

Harold Trio - Open Secrets (2019)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 182 MB | Tracks: 8 | 33:42 min
Style: Jazz | Label: Strange Woman Records

Amy K. Bormet is an in-demand pianist, vocalist, and composer. The quintet from her debut album, Striking, was featured as part of the Mary Lou Williams Jazz Festival at the Kennedy Center. As an advocate for women in music, Amy created the Washington Women in Jazz Festival in 2011 and continues to serve as executive director. One of Amy K Bormet’s latest projects, Ephemera, is a platform for her new art songs with improvisation. Ephemera performed a two-week tour of Sweden.

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Mari Takano - Women's Paradise (2002) Music

Posted by tirexiss at June 26, 2025

Mari Takano, from the standard publicity photograph she uses, looks like a soccer mom ready to go out on a date with her husband, taking a phone call in the kitchen before she heads out the door. Nothing in the photo would give you the impression that Takano is a venturesome and fiercely original classical composer who has studied with Brian Ferneyhough and György Ligeti.

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Jane Monheit - The Songbook Sessions: Ella Fitzgerald (2016) Music

Posted by mark70 at April 8, 2016

Jane Monheit - The Songbook Sessions: Ella Fitzgerald (2016)
MP3 320 kbps CBR | 58:12 min | 136 MB
Genre: Vocal Jazz | Label: Emerald City Records

Jazz, like any art, is a rich loam of inspiration and direction. A given contemporary artist has many options for smartly programmed recordings centered on paying tribute. It may be homage to a repertoire, a selected composer, or a particular peer within their own musical neighborhood. Cassandra Wilson's recent Coming Forth By Day (Sony Legacy, 2015) is only one of the most recent such recording addressing the music of Billie Holiday. Holiday has been the focus of many homage recordings. Certainly, she cannot be considered a stylistic black hole robbing equal talent of similar recognition.

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Pamela Hart - Happy Talk (2021) Music

Posted by varrock at May 5, 2021

Pamela Hart - Happy Talk (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 226 MB | Tracks: 9 | 42:38
Style: Jazz, Vocal Jazz | Label: HartBeat Productions

Pamela Hart is highly regarded as one of Austin, Texas’ finest vocalist She is noted by Austin Women’s Magazine as “Austin’s First Lady of Jazz ” Pamela and her husband Kevin Hart produced (and she has performed in) the semi-annual Women in Jazz Concert Series 1994 through 2021. Pamela was inducted in the Austin Jazz Society Hall of Fame in 2018. She has recorded Sunday House Concerts on YouTube since March 2020. A native of Los Angeles, Pamela released her first CD “May I Come in?” in 1998. She is proud to release “Happy Talk” in May 2021.

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Lakecia Benjamin - Phoenix (2023) Music

Posted by delpotro at June 27, 2023

Lakecia Benjamin - Phoenix (2023)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 440 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 161 Mb | 01:10:26
Contemporary Jazz | Label: Whirlwind Recordsings

Phoenix is the highly-anticipated, expansive next album in the musical evolution of alto saxophonist and composer Lakecia Benjamin, and first for Whirlwind. The album was produced by Terri Lyne Carrington and featuring a star-studded line up of specially curated guests; Dianne Reeves, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Patrice Rushen, Sonia Sanchez, Angela Davis and Wayne Shorter. The band comprises trumpeter Josh Evans, Victor Gould on keys, Orange Rodriguez on synths, drummer Enoch (EJ) Strickland, percussionist Nêgah Santos and bassist Ivan Taylor. Trumpeter Wallace Roney Jr., Rhodes organist Anastassiya Petrova and bassist Jahmal Nichols all join for one track each.

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Roxy Coss - Quintet (2019) Music

Posted by Pisulik at Aug. 22, 2019

Roxy Coss - Quintet (2019)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) - 292 MB | Cover | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 107 MB | 00:45:08
Jazz | Label: Outside in Music

Double subtext in the name of the new album of American saxophonist Roxy Koss. Firstly, the quintet is exactly the format that Roxy loves the most and in which this album is recorded, and secondly, Quintet is exactly the fifth album in her personal discography. Five is a jubilee, albeit small, and Roxy Koss decided to celebrate it by making the fifth album an anthology of her favorite compositions from previous works, of course, in a new reading. She had plenty to choose from, because Koss is already an experienced and sophisticated master instrumentalist and band leader, as well as a talented composer.

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Chihiro Yamanaka – Albums Collection 2001-2011 [11CD & 2DVD] Music

Posted by Designol at May 13, 2012

Collection includes 11 albums and DVD Live In Tokyo by Japanese virtuoso jazz pianist Chihiro Yamanaka.

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Ernestine Anderson - 4 Albums (1991-2009) Music

Posted by Domestos at Oct. 21, 2017

Ernestine Anderson - 4 Albums (1991-2009)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) ~ 1,29 Gb | 03:33:27 | Covers
Vocal Jazz | Country: USA

Ernestine Anderson (November 11, 1928 – March 10, 2016) was an American jazz and blues singer. In a career spanning more than six decades, she recorded over 30 albums. She was nominated four times for a Grammy Award. She sang at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Monterey Jazz Festival (six times over a 33-year span), as well as at jazz festivals all over the world. In the early 1990s she joined Qwest Records, the label of fellow Garfield High School grad Quincy Jones.

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Macha Gharibian - Phenomenal Women (2025) Music

Posted by Rtax at Jan. 23, 2025

Macha Gharibian - Phenomenal Women (2025)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 244 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 105 MB
45:29 | Vocal Jazz | Label: Rue bleue

Borrowing its name from a poem by the great Maya Angelou, Macha Gharibian’s fourth album ‘Phenomenal Women’ is set to release on January 24th on Rue Bleue Meredith Records. Captivated by a video of Angelou reciting her poem in London in 1987, Macha Gharibian found herself urged to pay musical tribute to the poet, and to the strength of all women. “In all the battles we are fighting right now—against sexism, the violence women endure, and for equality—I want to tell them, “We are brilliant, we are the wealth, the intelligence, and the power, we are phenomenal.”” Influenced by the school of ‘natural vocalists’ in Nina Simone, Jeanne Lee and Joni Mitchell, Gharibian’s luminescent energy leads her listener through the record’s delicately varied tonal palette of celebration, prayer, joy, and melancholy across the album’s ten original compositions and three imaginative covers.

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VA - Putumayo Presents Jazz (2011) Music

Posted by SERTiL at May 24, 2011

This exceptional recording features such legendary jazz artists as Cannonball Adderley with Bill Evans, Louis Armstrong & Oscar Peterson, Chet Baker, Anita O Day, Billie Holiday, The Nat King Cole Trio and many other wonderful artists singing some of your favorite songs. Most of the songs were recorded in the 1950s and as a result, 21st century technology (re-mixing and re-mastering) has benefited the original sound quality. My Baby Just Cares For Me sung by Nina Simone opens the program. Her instantly recognizable vocals and her piano playing are a sure reminder of what this inimitable singer brought to the jazz genre.

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