A mostly female sextet from London’s fertile jazz scene bring everything from surf rock solos to reed-breaking sax
While jazz undergoes a facelift thanks to a new generation of London-based musicians who are shunning the genre’s elitist stereotypes and opening it up to more diverse audiences, there is still a notable gender gap among its performers. In an interview with the Guardian in December, guitarist Shirley Tetteh said that, in jazz, “you had to play 10 times harder if you were a woman and wanted to be taken seriously”.
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