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All-Female Bands Are a Riot!

By Ludovico Granvassu | Mondo Jazz
August 13, 2019
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As much as we favor a complete integration of the jazz sexes, this week we feature twenty-four bands or projects with not a single man in sight, actually in hearing. After all, how much jazz radio have you listened to (not on Mondo Jazz) with playlists made exclusively of all male bands? Here's a small contribution to rebalancing that statistical abherration.

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Ben Allison

bass, acoustic
b.1966

" data-original-title="" title="">Ben Allison "Mondo Jazz Theme (feat.

Ted Nash

saxophone
b.1960

" data-original-title="" title="">Ted Nash &

Pyeng Threadgill

vocals

" data-original-title="" title="">Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00

Rhoda Scott

organ, Hammond B3
b.1938

" data-original-title="" title="">Rhoda Scott's Lady Quartet "We Free Queens" We Free Queens (Sunset) 0:17

Host talks 4:29

Nerija

" data-original-title="" title="">Nerija "The Fisherman" N��rija -EP (Domino) 6:55

Irene Schweizer

piano
b.1941

" data-original-title="" title="">Irene Schweizer,

Co Streiff

" data-original-title="" title="">Co Streiff "Five Dark Days" Twin Lines (Intakt) 12:33

Marilyn Mazur

percussion
b.1955

" data-original-title="" title="">Marilyn Mazur's Shamania "Heartshaped Moon" Shamania (RareNoise) 17:37

Host talks 23:13

Terri Lyne Carrington

drums
b.1965

" data-original-title="" title="">Terri Lyne Carrington "Unconditional Love" The Mosaic Project (Concord Jazz) 25:44

Aki Takase

piano
b.1948

" data-original-title="" title="">Aki Takase,

Silke Eberhard

saxophone

" data-original-title="" title="">Silke Eberhard "Lonely Woman" Ornette Coleman Anthology (Intakt) 31:33

Terri Lyne Carrington

drums
b.1965

" data-original-title="" title="">Terri Lyne Carrington "Insomniac" The Mosaic Project (Concord Jazz) 35:54

Host talks 41:01

Anna H?gberg Attack "Familjen" Anna H?gberg Attack (Omlott) 43:05

Maggie Nicols

vocals
b.1948

" data-original-title="" title="">Maggie Nicols,

Irene Schweizer

piano
b.1941

" data-original-title="" title="">Irene Schweizer,

Joëlle Léandre

bass
b.1951

" data-original-title="" title="">Jo?lle L��andre "Valse Diabolique" Les Diaboliques (Intakt) 49:50

Sylvie Courvoisier

piano

" data-original-title="" title="">Sylvie Courvoisier,

Susie Ibarra

percussion
b.1970

" data-original-title="" title="">Susie Ibarra,

Joëlle Léandre

bass
b.1951

" data-original-title="" title="">Jo?lle L��andre "Mini One" Passaggio (Intakt) 51:46

Host talks 53:03

Nicole Johänntgen

saxophone
b.1981

" data-original-title="" title="">Nicole Joh?nntgen "Flugmodus" Sisters in Jazz (SverigesRadio) 55:16

Cecilie Norby & Lars Danielsson

" data-original-title="" title="">Cecilie Norby & Lars Danielsson "Naked in the Dark" Sisters in Jazz (ACT) 1:05:45

Jane Bunnett

saxophone, soprano
b.1955

" data-original-title="" title="">Jane Bunnett and Maqueque "On Firm Ground" On Firm Ground / Tierra Ferma (Linus) 1:09:37

Monika Herzig

piano
b.1964

" data-original-title="" title="">Monika Herzig "A Total Non-Impossibility" The Whole World in Her Hands (Whaling City Sound) 1:14:25

Host talks 1:20:32

Tia Fuller

saxophone

" data-original-title="" title="">Tia Fuller "Cherokee" Angelic Warrior (Mack Avenue) 1:24:53

Giovani Leonesse "Summertime" Janis -Jazz Italiano Live 2016 (L'Espresso) 1:28:37

Lioness "Think" Pride & Joy (Posi-Tone) 1:33:00

Host talks 1:35:12

Ahn Trio

band / ensemble / orchestra

" data-original-title="" title="">Ahn Trio "Yuryung" Blue (Self release) 1:37:12

Satoko Fujii

piano
b.1958

" data-original-title="" title="">Satoko Fujii,

Carla Kihlstedt

violin

" data-original-title="" title="">Carla Kihlstedt "Sora No Naka -In the Sky" Kuroi Kawa ~ Black River (Tzadik) 1:47:34

Mary Halvorson

guitar

" data-original-title="" title="">Mary Halvorson,

Jessica Pavone

viola

" data-original-title="" title="">Jessica Pavone "Crawling" On and Off (Skirl) 1:50:09

Host talks 1:54:36

Eve Risser

piano
b.1982

" data-original-title="" title="">Eve Risser,

Kaja Draksler

piano
b.1987

" data-original-title="" title="">Kaja Draksler "Walking Batterie Woman" To Pianos (Clean Feed) 1:55:50

Kaja Draksler,

Susana Santos Silva

trumpet
b.1979

" data-original-title="" title="">Susana Santos Silva "This Love" This Love (Clean Feed) 2:00:40

Aki Takase,

Lauren Newton

vocals

" data-original-title="" title="">Lauren Newton "Insel" Spring in Bangkok (Intakt) 2:06:36

Host talks 2:09:58

Hae Voces "The Most (Written for C.L.A.W)" The Most (Written for C.L.A.W.) [Single] (Self-produced) 2:13:23

Photo credit: Agata Urbaniak.

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