The Girls in the Band–The Official Site of the Music Documentary

We’ve created this Curated Collection of music by women Jazz musicians who rarely get any air play. We hope it will introduce you to some of the great musical artists who will enrich your life.

Lil Hardin Armstrong – Piano

Oriental Swing

Born to Swing

Riffin’ the Blues

Clora Bryant – Trumpet

This Can’t be Love

Blanche Calloway – Big Band Leader (First Female)

I Gotta Swing

Marian McPartland – Pianist/Composer

In A Midst

Skylark

Toshiko Akiyoshi – Pianist/Composer/Big Band Leader

The Village

The Third Movement

Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra – The Long Yellow Road

Alice Coltrane – Piano/Harp

Turiya and Ramakrishna

Something About John Coltrane

 

Martha Davis – Boogie Woogie Piano

Martha’s Boogie

I’m Gonna Sit Right Down

Dorothy Donegan Piano with Cab Calloway and his Orchestra

Sensations of 1945

Melba Liston – Trombone/Arranger

You Don’t Say

Start Swingin’

Nellie Lutcher – Piano/Vocalist

Blue Skies, It Had To Be You, Let’s Fall in Love

Mary Osborne – Guitar

I Surrender Dear

The Man I Love (with commentary by Marian McPartland)

I Love Paris and These Foolish Things Remind Me Of You

Vi Redd – Tenor Sax

Stormy Monday Blues –  with Count Basie

 

Hazel Scott – Piano

Black & White

Valaida Snow – Trumpet

Patience and Fortitude

The Mood That I’m In

 

Emily Remler – Guitar

You Know What I’m Saying

How Insensitive

Stormy Weather Blues – with Barbara Dennerlein (Organ)