Posted on May 23, 2022
Why are there so few female musicians in jazz?
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Kansas City jazz artists say the gender imbalance in the music world continues to be evident, specifically in their genre.
Despite many artists at the top of the charts, the music business continues to be a male-dominated industry.
In jazz specifically, many female instrumentalists say they need to be better than their male counterparts to get gigs. Some even say certain instruments are more suited to men than women. Drums, trombone and trumpet are seen as “masculine” and the flute, clarinet and violin as “feminine.”
"Vocalists, historically, predominantly have been women but as far as band leaders, band stands, instrumentalists, it's just always been very male dominated and it still is," says Kansas City's Eboni Fondren, a vocalist and band leader who was mentored by local jazz legend Everette DeVan. "Whether it was education or the lack of encouragement for female artists to pick up an instrument, its sort of been historically perpetuated in that way."
Despite many artists at the top of the charts, the music business continues to be a male-dominated industry.
In jazz specifically, many female instrumentalists say they need to be better than their male counterparts to get gigs. Some even say certain instruments are more suited to men than women. Drums, trombone and trumpet are seen as “masculine” and the flute, clarinet and violin as “feminine.”
"Vocalists, historically, predominantly have been women but as far as band leaders, band stands, instrumentalists, it's just always been very male dominated and it still is," says Kansas City's Eboni Fondren, a vocalist and band leader who was mentored by local jazz legend Everette DeVan. "Whether it was education or the lack of encouragement for female artists to pick up an instrument, its sort of been historically perpetuated in that way."
Why are there so few female musicians in jazz?
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This is interesting, Had not actually thought about numbers but since this is true in most of our society it is not surprising that it is also true in Jazz music, I think about artists such as Diana Kraal, Alice Coltrane, Keiko Matsui, Eartha Kitt, Eliane Elias, Melissa Aldana and so on
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
PO2 Marco Monsalve The Jazz Community has Lots of Talented Female Artists, Of Course there is Plenty of Room for Growth Too and We'll See How It Goes.
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