Award-winning jazz bassist, educator and mentor Hayden, at age 68, is today the youngest recipient of Detroit’s highest arts ...

The gap between female and male instrumentalists is even ... females make up a third of the jazz musicians and at top U.S.

Hopefully, their achievements will catch up with those of Polish jazz vocalists. If we accept that there were no female jazz musicians in pre-war Poland, then the title of the first lady of Polish ...

Herzig felt a distinct lack of female representation on jazz stages and in music education. “I’ve been in the industry for a ...

Ernest “Ernie” Mae Miller was born in 1927 in Austin, Texas. She was the granddaughter of the famous educator LC Anderson. He ...

Half of the female vocalists said they also play an instrument, mostly piano, on the side. It is not by chance that, now as ever, women practitioners of jazz are usually singers or pianists. The ...

A cornerstone in the Metro Detroit jazz community, musician and educator Marion Hayden is the recipient of the 2025 Kresge ...

Hayden is the youngest Kresge Eminent Artist at age 68 and the second recipient to have also received a Kresge Artist ...