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Women In Jazz: A Sampling from The First Hundred Years
As part of its Community Voices series, the West Falmouth Library presents a free presentation by Robert Silver on “Women in Jazz: A Sampling From the First Hundred Years” on Friday, July 10 at 5 PM The event is free and open to all.
Jazz is quintessential American music recognized and enjoyed around the world. Tracing its origins to the “Talking Drums” of Western Africa to the complexities of numerous composers and performers – women and men, jazz has birthed a wide array of familiar formats including Bebop, Blues, Broadway Musicals, Calypso, Contemporary Symphonic and Opera, Gospel, Rhythm and Blues, Rock & Roll, Scat and Soul.
This presentation will sample contributions of women and men in jazz during the past hundred years; relying upon luminaries including Dorothy Donegan, Ella Fitzgerald, Natalie Cole, Eva Cassidy, Diana Krall, Yoko Miwa, Samara Joy, Christine Fawson, Judy Carmichael, and others (many whose music has been featured in the Falmouth Jazz Festival). Aspects of the musical and personal lives of these performers will be presented and samplings of their recorded performances will be played
Robert Silver is a recently retired scientist and professor with more than a half-century in research and teaching, and even longer as a fan of classical, jazz and blues music.