When Mary Lou Williams arrived at Duke in 1977 as the University’s first artist-in-residence, she was already an icon in the jazz world, having earned monikers like “The First Lady of Jazz” and “The ...

then the title of the first lady of Polish jazz should be awarded to Wanda Warska. In 1954, the singer joined Krakow's first jazz band, MM 176. The group, led by Jerzy Borowiec and featuring future ...

The gap between female and male instrumentalists ... females make up a third of the jazz musicians and at top U.S. music ...