Extraordinary jazz by 101 women composers! From bebop to blues, from swing to global jazz styles, Terri Lyne Carrington’s collection includes a wide variety of well-known works and hidden gems, within a broad range of jazz and jazz-adjacent styles. This collection celebrates the work of many women who shaped the music of the past century, as well as its unsung heroes and emerging contemporary visionaries.

Available in print for the first time, you can access works from some of the best women jazz composers, such as “Throw It Away” (Abbey Lincoln), “Lawns” (Carla Bley), “Blue Nile” (Alice Coltrane), “Choro Dancado” (Maria Schneider), and “Blues for Herb” (Emily Remler). Learn and discover the works of esperanza spalding, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Geri Allen, Cecile McLorin Salvant, Cassandra Wilson, Dianne Reeves, Dorothy Ashby, Mary Lou Williams, Nubya Garcia, Nicole Mitchell, Melissa Aldana, Terri Lyne Carrington, and many others. 

From a 1922 piece by the influential Lil Hardin Armstrong to new releases by emerging contemporary artists, this collection finally opens a door to the brilliant colors and fresh sounds by so many important and often underacknowledged voices of jazz.

Composers: Toshiko Akiyoshi, Melissa Aldana, Geri Allen, Lil Hardin Armstrong, Dorothy Ashby, Sheryl Bailey, Simone Baron, Jamie Baum, Camila Cortina Bello, Lakecia Benjamin, Airelle Besson, Cindy Blackman, Carla Bley, Jane Ira Bloom, Jaimie Branch, Karen Briggs, Courtney Bryan, Jane Bunnett, Terri Lyne Carrington, Regina Carter, Sara Cassey, Anat Cohen, Alice Coltrane, Carla Cook, Roxy Coss, Sylvie Courvoisier, Marilyn Crispell, Connie Crothers, Caroline Davis, Kris Davis, Eliane Elias, Sandy Evans, Jean Fineberg, Mimi Fox, Tia Fuller, Nubya Garcia, Devon Gates, Rachel Z Hakim, Mary Halvorson, Miho Hazama, Anke Helfrich, Monika Herzig, Hiromi, Jazzmeia Horn, EJ Hwang, Ayn Inserto, Ingrid Jensen, Christine Jensen, Mimi Jones, Laura Jurd, Grace Kelly, Ingrid Laubrock, Veronica Leahy, Abbey Lincoln, Melba Liston, Carmen Lundy, Sherrie Maricle, René Marie, Marian McPartland, Myra Melford, Allison Miller, Nicole Mitchell, Linda May Han Oh, Gretchen Parlato, Patricia Zarate Perez, Elena Pinderhughes, Tineke Postma, Dianne Reeves, Tomeka Reid, Emily Remler, Michele Rosewoman, Renee Rosnes, Ada Rovatti, Ellen Rowe, Shamie Royston, Patrice Rushen, Cecile McLorin Salvant, Angelica Sanchez, Marta Sánchez, Arcoiris Sandoval, Maria Schneider, Kate Schutt, Sara Serpa, Bria Skonberg, Cecilia Smith, Luciana Souza, esperanza spalding, Carmen Staaf, Leni Stern, Helen Sung, Alexa Tarantino, Camille Thurman, Marianne Trudel, Ariacne Trujillo, Noriko Ueda, Charenée Wade, Mary D. Watkins, Anna Webber, Mary Lou Williams, Cassandra Wilson, Brandee Younger