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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.

Happy listening!

Ben Allison "Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00
Rhoda Scott's Lady Quartet "We Free Queens" We Free Queens (Sunset) 0:17
Host talks 4:29
Nerija "The Fisherman" Nérija -EP (Domino) 6:55
Irene Schweizer, Co Streiff "Five Dark Days" Twin Lines (Intakt) 12:33
Marilyn Mazur's Shamania "Heartshaped Moon" Shamania (RareNoise) 17:37
Host talks 23:13
Terri Lyne Carrington "Unconditional Love" The Mosaic Project (Concord Jazz) 25:44
Aki Takase, Silke Eberhard "Lonely Woman" Ornette Coleman Anthology (Intakt) 31:33
Terri Lyne Carrington "Insomniac" The Mosaic Project (Concord Jazz) 35:54
Host talks 41:01
Anna Högberg Attack "Familjen" Anna Högberg Attack (Omlott) 43:05
Maggie Nicols, Irene Schweizer, Joëlle Léandre "Valse Diabolique" Les Diaboliques (Intakt) 49:50
Sylvie Courvoisier, Susie Ibarra, Joëlle Léandre "Mini One" Passaggio (Intakt) 51:46
Host talks 53:03
Nicole Johänntgen "Flugmodus" Sisters in Jazz (SverigesRadio) 55:16
Cecilie Norby & Lars Danielsson "Naked in the Dark" Sisters in Jazz (ACT) 1:05:45
Jane Bunnett and Maqueque "On Firm Ground" On Firm Ground / Tierra Ferma (Linus) 1:09:37
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 "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 "Yuryung" Blue (Self release) 1:37:12
Satoko Fujii, Carla Kihlstedt "Sora No Naka -In the Sky" Kuroi Kawa ~ Black River (Tzadik) 1:47:34
Mary Halvorson, Jessica Pavone "Crawling" On and Off (Skirl) 1:50:09
Host talks 1:54:36
Eve Risser, Kaja Draksler "Walking Batterie Woman" To Pianos (Clean Feed) 1:55:50
Kaja Draksler, Susana Santos Silva "This Love" This Love (Clean Feed) 2:00:40
Aki Takase, 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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