#women-in-jazz

#women-in-jazz

I didn't aim the list to turn out this way, but four of the albums' leaders are women, and five (including three of those four) feature prominent female "sidemen." There's old and young, with the leaders' ages ranging from 38 (Sullivan Fortner) to 87 (Charles Lloyd), the rest widely spaced in between. Seven of the 10 albums were released by indie labels, four of them on labels that are also artist-owned (two on Pyroclastic, one each on Greenleaf and Yes).