• audio of "Jubilee"
  • from The Vocal Group Harmony Web Site http://www.group-harmony.com/JumpChil.htm

Contemporary Women Jazz Musicians

• audio samples from the Kennedy Center Mary Lou Williams Women In Jazz Festival

Individual Performers:

• Regina Carter:
  • http://www.vervemusicgroup.com/verve/artist.asp?aid=2956 [choose an album from the discography in order to listen to audio samples from that album]
  • http://www.fiddlechicks.com/players/carter.htm
• Rosemary Clooney: http://www.wcal.org/archives/audio/interviews.html
  • includes an interview with Rosemary Clooney about "White Christmas" -- near bottom of the list
• Fostina Dixon
  • audio sample of baritone saxophonist from Gallery 41 web site
• Billie Holiday
  • audio samples of "Strange Fruit," "Solitude," and "Without Your Love"
    • from PBS Jazz Series Web Site http://www.pbs.org/jazz/biography/artist_id_holiday_billie.htm
  • lyrics to Strange Fruit
• Norah Jones: http://www.norahjones.com/av/main.htm

Individual Performers (from the Red Hot Jazz Archive -- pre 1930s)

• Lil Harden Armstrong: http://redhotjazz.com/now.html
• Esther Bigeou: http://redhotjazz.com/Bigeou.html
• Lucille Bogan: http://redhotjazz.com/bogan.html
• Annette Hanshaw: http://redhotjazz.com/Hanshaw.html
• Lucille Hegamin: http://redhotjazz.com/blueflame.html
• Edmonia Henderson: http://redhotjazz.com/ehendersonla.html
• Katherine Henderson: http://redhotjazz.com/khenderson.html
• Edna Hicks: http://redhotjazz.com/ehicks.html
• Alberta Hunter: http://redhotjazz.com/Hunter.html
• Margaret Johnson: http://redhotjazz.com/margaretjohnson.html
• Mary Johnson: http://redhotjazz.com/MaryJohnson.html
• Virginia Liston: http://redhotjazz.com/virginialiston.html
• Sarah Martin: http://redhotjazz.com/martin.html
• Lizzie Miles: http://redhotjazz.com/lizziemiles.html
• Ma Rainey: http://redhotjazz.com/rainey.html
• Bessie Smith:
  • http://academic.bowdoin.edu/courses/s02/afrs240/resources.shtml
  • http://www.riverwalkjazz.org/proglist/showpromo/geography.htm
  • http://redhotjazz.com/bessie.html
• Clara Smith: http://redhotjazz.com/clarasmith.html
• Laura Smith: http://redhotjazz.com/laurasmith.html
• Mamie Smith: http://www.redhotjazz.com/msjh.html
• Trixie Smith: http://redhotjazz.com/trixiesmith.html
• Victoria Spivey: http://redhotjazz.com/spivey.html
• Mary Stafford: http://redhotjazz.com/marystafford.html
• Thelma Terry: http://redhotjazz.com/terry.html
• Sippie Wallace: http://redhotjazz.com/wallace.html
• Ethel Waters: http://redhotjazz.com/waters.html
• Lena Wilson: http://redhotjazz.com/lwilson.html

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