Women of Jazz

ABC Jazz releases Women of Jazz '25, an album of music from artists recorded and released by ABC Jazz!

March 8 is International Women's Day, and to mark the occasion, we're is holding our third annual Women of Jazz Fest! To accompany this on-air celebration, ABC Jazz has also released a compilation of new recordings by some of the most influential composers and performers from the Australian scene.

Nothing quite seems to help us through the hard knocks of romance like a heart-wrenching torch song. In the care of legendary songs stylists showcased on Great Women Of Jazz, twelve classic songs of heartache remind us all too vividly of the pain of failed relationships and the heartbreak of lost love. With such gems of musical history as Julie London’s breathy Cry Me A River, Billie Holiday’s classic rendition of Stormy Weather, and Nina Simone’s heartbreaking and bluesy Since I Fell For You, this collection is the quintessential soundtrack for love gone wrong.

Delightful package of 5 albums from Putumayo with female singers of many styles from all around the world: Women's work, Women of Africa, Women of Latin America, Women of the world acoustic and Women of jazz. A happy mosaic of rhythms, melodies, languages and styles with known and unknown female voices. Enjoy an uplifting and refreshing musical experience of three and a half hours in lossless.

Let us first salute the title, given by the publisher, and undoubtedly also by Jean-Paul Ricard and Jean Buzelin, co-responsible for this edition: Jazz Ladies, and not Women in Jazz as in the past, or even “girls » as was also the case. Not the “women” of jazz, a term that is used everywhere, but the “ladies”. We do say “ladies and gentlemen” after all. This time, the ladies are entitled to three CDs, one more than usual. The tenacity of Jean-Paul Ricard, a great specialist on the subject for years, collector of records and CDs, therefore produces its effect, and it is with pleasure and a certain amazement that we see the list of instrumentalists lengthening female who has practiced jazz. And again, the usual rights reasons limited the selection to the year 1962. We suspect that if we could go to the present day, we would need a good dozen cakes. Because, even if the figures do not seem to indicate a break in the famous “glass ceiling”, the presence of “ladies” is not weakening, and is even strengthening. Let us add that female singers are not included in this selection, except obviously the cases (not rare at all) of instrumentalists whom the producers pushed into singing, for financial reasons.

Even in her native Brazil, Astrud Gilberto was a virtual unknown before she interpreted the bossa nova "The Girl From Ipanema" in 1964 with her cool, breathy voice and made it a world hit. Her unobtrusive, but at the same time magically attractive performance style is the focus of this new compilation. In her own unmistakable style, she interprets not only bossa novas, but also pop hits of the 1960s and 70s as well as jazz standards.

In reggae women are in some way underrepresented, but in no way absent. This sampler gives you a glimpse in the female voices of most important reggae archive – Coxsone Dod's Studio One.