Jazzwise Magazine reviews Sammy Stein's "Women in Jazz - The Women, The Legends & Their Fight" 

A review of Sammy Stein's "Women in Jazz- The Women, The Legends & Their Fight" in this month's Jazzwise Magazine.

Jane Cornwell writes,
“Women in jazz: see them? Like, really ‘see’ them? They’re there, and working hard – and out of necessity, harder – to pursue their passion on a playing field that is still shockingly uneven… Jazz remains stubbornly anachronistic, asserts Stein in the intro to this timely book. Disagree? It’s all here, beautifully written, eloquently argued, clear-eyed in its intentions and open in its invitation to come one, come all and sort it out. Jazz is given loose definition and historical context, with an illuminating chapter on New Orleans now and then. We’re re-introduced to pioneers: Melba Liston, whose complex arrangements made Dizzy’s musos gasp. Bessie Smith, buried in an unmarked grave until female fans arranged a headstone. Hazel Scott, targeted by McCarthyites in 1947, and a singer who advised Billie Holiday to “never let them see you cry”. Interviews with today’s women in jazz document challenges faced – from the male gaze to unsisterly women – and rewards reaped. Firsthand accounts from the likes of Terri Lyne Carrington, Georgia Mancio and Claire Martin are elucidating...”
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'All About Jazz' features Sammy Stein's latest book "Women in Jazz"

"All About Jazz" features "Women in Jazz: The Women, The Legends & Their Fight": 

"New book celebrates the women of music, shares their journeys and gives them voice."

See the feature here.

Darren C. Demaree's collection NUDE MALE WITH ECHO examines and challenges male vanity, power, and expectation. While exploring the place of his gender in this world, Demaree's attempt to expand upon the expectations of "what makes a man," while drilling down into the artistic framework provided by the body and aging, provides a new landscape for these modern questions.

NUDE MALE WITH ECHO, Demaree's thirteenth full-length collection, utilizes fresh language, energy, and abstraction…

Author Talk: In Nietzsche's Footsteps

Jonathan Cohen will be reading from his "In Nietzsche's Footsteps" today at 15:00 at the Abramson Center for Jewish Life,

Abramson Center

Jan. 9, 2020, 15:00

1425 Horsham Rd,

North Wales PA 19454, 

Sammy Stein's "Women in Jazz" featured in Japan's "Portrait in Jazz"

Japan's "Portrait in Jazz" reviews Sammy Stein's "Women in Jazz". See the review here. (You can google translate the page if you need to.)

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What began as a poem-photo collaboration project between two life-long friends — Maria Haro, a visual artist, and Claudia Serea, a poet — resulted in a refreshing lyricism of urban photography and poetry. TWOXISM is a work that finds beauty in unexpected places and sees the mundane with redemptive eyes. A city love story, tender and gritty at the same time, it ex…

"Women in Jazz" mentioned in JJA's Notable & Worthy List

Royal Stokes, Founding member of the Jazz Journalist Association lists Sammy Stein's "Women in Jazz" in their 2019 Notable & Worthy List. See the full list..

"Women in Jazz" by Sammy Stein makes the Jazz Times Recommendation List

...Sammy Stein’s new book Women in Jazz: The Women, the Legends & Their Fight uses a wide-angle lens to look at how women in a range of different roles have made a life in—and helped shape—jazz. Instead of only focusing on well-known performers, Stein interviewed agents, arrangers, composers, public relations professionals, media members, and more. Her subjects bridge generations (and international boundaries) in an effort to honor the past, assess the present, and point to the future.
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"Through Shadows Slow" on Concordia University's Holiday Book List

Abraham Boyarsky's "Through Shadows Slow" on Concordia University's Holiday Book List's "16 great reads".
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