DOUGLAS FIELD relishes the hard-boiled language, satire and humour of the third and last of the Harlem trilogy
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PAUL WIDDOP and SIOBHAN McANDREW report on the gender imbalance in the music and how it’s holding women back
POWER TRIO: Geri Allen, Esperanza Spalding and Terri Lyne Carrington (ACS) at Marciac Jazz Festival in France
STEPHANIE BROWN draws attention to the hidden labour of the female embroiderers, and how a 19th century replica made no such error
MIK SABIERS revels in a band that ploughs an idiosyncratic furrow of expletive laden, guitar-driven alt rock
ANDY HEDGECOCK, MARIA DUARTE and ANGUS REID review Synthetic Sincerity, Our Hero, Balthazar, Heartstopper Forever, and A Year In London
The bard invites readers to a gig, raps for Clacton, and lays out the Burnham-Hurzeler conundrum
RON JACOBS recommends an important book that enhances the oppositional theories put forth by Fanon and, in doing so, remakes psychology itself
THERE are relatively few female musicians in jazz. In the US, recordings led by women made up only one fifth of the top 50 albums in the National Public Radio jazz critics’ poll from 2017 to 2019 and this seems to be a long-term trend — a survey of British jazz musicians in 2004 suggested that only 14 per cent were female.
Rather than there being explicit barriers to entry, gender differences in preferences and socialisation are significant.
Men see concerts as a male space and male musicians are more likely to be encouraged to continue following early experience of playing with others, particularly in terms of learning improvisation and taking a solo from a young age.
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