Jazz Articles about Lolly Allen

Lolly Allen: Coming Home

by Jack Bowers
December 22, 2019

There was a time, and it wasn't that long ago, when women in jazz—apart from singers and the occasional pianist—were seen by many observers as unsolicited interlopers whose impact in what was essentially a male bastion could be no more than minimal at best. Needless to say that is no longer the case, as women's voices have become ever stronger and more ubiquitous, no longer confined to “traditional" roles once largely defined by their male peers. Today's women not only ...