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New York@Night<br />
Interview: Claudia Acuña<br />
by Suzanne Lorge<br />
Artist Feature: Min Xiao-Fen<br />
by Kurt Gottschalk<br />
On The Cover: Jenny Scheinman<br />
by Sean Fitzell<br />
Encore: Lest We Forget:<br />
Valerie Capers Patti Bown<br />
by Brad Farberman by Suzanne Lorge<br />
Megaphone VOXNews<br />
by Kali. Z. Fasteau by Katie Bull<br />
Label Spotlight: Listen Up!:<br />
Libra Records<br />
by Ken Waxman<br />
Roxy Coss & Lakecia Benjamin<br />
CD Reviews: Kris Davis, Champian Fulton, Marilyn Crispell,<br />
Karin Krog, Lorraine Feather, Ig Henneman, Claire Daly and more<br />
Event Calendar<br />
Club Directory<br />
Miscellany: In Memoriam • Birthdays • On This Day<br />
Welcome, dear readers, to The New York City Jazz Record’s “Women in Jazz” issue.<br />
We are certainly not the first to highlight the contributions of women in the history<br />
of the music but we would like to take advantage of March being Women’s History<br />
Month to debunk the notion that women should be thought of as separate from<br />
their male musician counterparts. Women in jazz, frankly, are nothing new (wider<br />
acceptance, perhaps, may be). Not even mentioning all the important vocalists of<br />
the past century, female instrumentalists have been active in jazz as far back as the<br />
‘20s and only gaining prominence in the subsequent decades, from Mary Lou<br />
Williams and Lil Hardin Armstrong to Mary Halvorson and Nicole Mitchell. Next<br />
time someone says there haven’t been too many women in jazz, ask them to name<br />
their three favorite soprano saxophonists and watch them squirm.<br />
We have dedicated much of our coverage to this theme (as well as reaffirming<br />
the international nature of this music). West Coast violinist Jenny Scheinman (On<br />
The Cover) is both a compelling leader and valued collaborator with Bill Frisell.<br />
She leads a trio with the guitarist and drummer Brian Blade at Zankel Hall. Chilean<br />
vocalist Claudia Acuña (Interview) is a leader in both the jazz and world music<br />
scenes. She brings her group to Harlem Stage Gatehouse. And Chinese pipa player<br />
Min Xiao-Fen (Artist Feature) has thrived not only as a woman, but as a foreign<br />
player on an unfamiliar instrument. She celebrates a new album at Brooklyn Public<br />
Library and also appears at Avery Fisher Hall and Museum of Chinese in America.<br />
We also have features on pianist Valerie Capers (Encore, appearing at Jazz at<br />
Kitano); pianist Patti Bown (Lest We Forget, who passed away five years ago this<br />
month); a Megaphone by multi-instrumentalist Kali. Z. Fasteau, who will perform<br />
at Brecht Forum; a Label Spotlight on pianist Satoko Fujii’s Libra Records; two<br />
up-and-coming women, Roxy Coss and Lakecia Benjamin, featured in our Listen<br />
Up! section and the opening portion of our CD Reviews (pgs. 14-18) given over to<br />
new albums from a wide swathe of female jazzers.<br />
Laurence Donohue-Greene, Managing Editor Andrey Henkin, Editorial Director<br />
On the cover: Jenny Scheinman (John Rogers/Johnrogersnyc.com)<br />
Corrections: In what we readily admit as the worst error in our history, last month’s<br />
Globe Unity: Slovenia triple review included an introductory paragraph that spoke<br />
of Slovakia and Slovakian musicians. We deeply regret the error.<br />
Submit Letters to the Editor by emailing feedback@nycjazzrecord.com<br />
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The New York City Jazz Record<br />
www.nycjazzrecord.com / twitter: @nycjazzrecord<br />
Managing Editor: Laurence Donohue-Greene<br />
Editorial Director & Production Manager: Andrey Henkin<br />
Staff Writers<br />
David R. Adler, Clifford Allen, Fred Bouchard, Stuart Broomer, Katie Bull,<br />
Tom Conrad, Ken Dryden, Donald Elfman, Sean Fitzell, Graham Flanagan,<br />
Kurt Gottschalk, Tom Greenland, Alex Henderson, Marcia Hillman,<br />
Terrell Holmes, Robert Iannapollo, Francis Lo Kee, Martin Longley, Wilbur MacKenzie,<br />
Marc Medwin, Matthew Miller, Sharon Mizrahi, Russ Musto, Sean O’Connell, Joel Roberts,<br />
John Sharpe, Elliott Simon, Jeff Stockton, Andrew Vélez, Ken Waxman<br />
Contributing Writers<br />
Duck Baker, Brad Farberman, Kali Z. Fasteau, Laurel Gross, George Kanzler, Suzanne Lorge<br />
Contributing Photographers<br />
Tom Greenland, Alan Nahigian, John Rogers, Monika Sziladi, Jack Vartoogian<br />
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