The Kansas City Women's Jazz Festival, 1978-1985
by
Carolyn Glenn Brewer
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Even though the potential passage of the Equal Rights Amendment had cracked glass ceilings across the country, in 1978 jazz remained a boys’ club. Two Kansas City women, Carol Comer and Dianne Gregg, challenged that inequitable standard. With the support of jazz luminaries Marian McPartland and Leonard...