Diva Joan Cartwright created this website to celebrate Amazing Women in Jazz and Blues
Joan Cartwright Artist-in-Residence for Pan African Bookfest presents Women in Jazz at William Dandy Middle School in Fort Lauderdale, FL
JAZZWOMEN DIRECTORY
- Afrikkanitha
- Toshiko Akiyoshi
- Geri Allen
- Andrews Sisters
- Angela Andrews
- Lil Harden Armstrong
- Dorothy Ashby
- Pearl Bailey
- Beverly Barkley
- Shirley Bassey
- JoAnne Brackeen
- Karen Briggs
- Suzanne Brooks
- Ruth Brown
- Blanche Calloway
- Diane Cameron
- Una Mae Carlisle
- Betty Carter
- Joan Cartwright
- Jeannie Cheatam
- Patricia Chiti
- Kim Clarke
- Gloria Coleman
- Alice Coltrane
- Sasha Daltonn
- Dee Daniels
- Gloria DeNard
- Dorothy Donegan
- Flo Dreyer
- Peggy Duquesnel
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Gloria Galante
- Rita Graham
- Jace Harnage
- Lenora Helm
- Billie Holiday
- Bertha Hope
- Shirley Horn
- Lena Horne
- Alberta Hunter
- Etta James
- Melba Joyce
- Jus' Cynthia
- KJ Denhert
- Mimi Johnson
- Sandra Kaye
- Emme Kemp
- Vinnie Knight
- Saskia Laroo
- Lavelle
- Jan Leder
- Peggy Lee
- Abbey Lincoln
- Melba Liston
- Gloria Lynne
- Tania Maria
- Dee Dee McNeil
- Marian McPartland
- Carmen McRae
- Mabel Mercer
- M'zuri
- Sandy Patton
- Trudy Pitts
- Cheryl Porter
- Gertrude "Ma" Rainey
- Lenore Raphael
- Carline Ray
- Irene Reid
- Patrizia Scascitelli
- Rhoda Scott
- Shirley Scott
- Amanda Sedgwick
- Nina Simone
- Bessie Smith
- Dakota Staton
- Carol Sudhalter
- Monnette Sudler
- Maxine Sullivan
- Alexis P. Suter
- Dotti Anita Taylor
- Sumi Tonooka
- Sarah Vaughn
- Dinah Washington
- Ethel Waters
- Elisabeth Welch
- Carolyn Wilkins
- Mary Lou Williams
- Lillette Jenkins Wisner
