Big Bandits - SHE

In the organizer's words:

In their latest program, the Big Bandits focus on female composers and arrangers. The jazz world is still very male-dominated - at least on the surface. If you look a little deeper, you quickly realize that in recent years in particular, a large number of female musicians have not only appeared as instrumentalists, but have also attracted attention with their own band projects, compositions and arrangements.

And if you look a little deeper, you will notice that women have been working as composers and arrangers alongside their traditional role as singers since the 1950s or earlier. Across all eras and genres, the Big Bandits have designed a program that covers a broad spectrum of the female jazz scene, from the swing musicians of the 1950s such as Meredith Wilson to big band icons of the 1970s and 1980s such as Toshiko Akiyoshi, Carla Bley and Maria Schneider to young female musicians of the present day such as Hendrika Entzian and Claudia Döffinger.

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