Appearance Counts: Women at Work I recently saw a live jazz performance, and was distracted by the fact that one of the band’s two women had what I considered to be a “bad haircut.” When I mentioned this to my husband and daughter, they dismissed it as internalized oppression (meaning that I had absorbed and was applying the outside world’s twisted judgments and Read More
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Speaking Up for Success — with a Bassoon
NOTE: During the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, Janet Grice lost a long battle with multiple myeloma. Her spirit lives on in her music, and in the hearts of the friends, students, and musical colleagues she inspired. It’s not easy for women in jazz, as I remembered when I went to hear my friend Janet Grice play some serious bassoon at Read More