Minibabble: Nora Germain is a player AND a person
Jazz violinist Nora Germain speaks about being a woman in a male-dominated industry.
Tag: jazz
Not Forgotten Anymore: The African American Composer Initiative
Sometimes all it takes is one question to spur a revelation that inspires a movement. The African American Composer Initiative started with a question and has become a thriving nonprofit, discovering, performing, and recording underappreciated concert music by Black composers.
“Enough”: In conversation with jazz guitarist Mimi Fox
“I never felt like I was ‘enough’,” Mimi Fox explains. “And now, for the most part, on my better days, I do. And that is a real gift of my….
Nurturing community through jazz
Some years ago I took a jazz singing course at our local community college. The instructor, the wonderful big band leader Wally Trindade, said that to really test our chops,….
Duke, Diaspora, and his Muses
On my recent trip to New York City, I pondered the meaning behind the nine mythical women supporting a very real genius of music.