Where-To-Go Wednesday - Rhthym is My Business Woman Who Shaped Jazz

What: Rhythm is My Business Woman Who Shaped Jazz 

Where: New York Library of the Performing Arts 

             40 Lincoln Center Plaza

             New York, NY

Who: All ages 

When: Through June 12, 2025 

 

Most people are familiar with legendary female jazz singers like Billie Holiday and Ellie Fitzgerald but don't know much if anything about other pioneering women in jazz. Women weren't only singers. They were musicians, bandleaders, composers, and much more. Una Mae Carlisle was a pianist. Viola Smith was a drummer. Ruth Lowe was a composer who wrote Frank Sinatra's first number-one hit. Ina Ray Hutton was a bandleader who led both an all-female and an all-male band. There was even a completely integrated all-female band, The Internation Sweethearts of Rhythm. Its members included African American, White, Latina, and Native-American women. To learn more about these groundbreaking women and others, visit this fascinating and informative exhibit.

For more about Rhthym is My Business Woman Who Shaped Jazz, www.nypl.org/events/exhibitions/rhythmismybusiness

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