IN THEIR OWN WORDS — Interviews with Women in Jazz

Sammy Stein • Music / Interviews / Oral History / Jazz

Book Description

What happens when you hand the microphone to the women who lived it? IN THEIR OWN WORDS collects Sammy Stein's candid, in-depth conversations with twenty-one extraordinary women in jazz — a chorus of voices spanning generations, styles, and roles within the music. From legendary vocalist Sheila Jordan to guitar virtuoso Mimi Fox, from Canadian saxophonist and bandleader Jane Bunnett to the next generation of boundary-pushers, these interviews capture the unvarnished truth of lives lived in and for the music.

The format is deliberately intimate: these are not press-release profiles but real conversations — about craft, about struggle, about the moments of transcendence that make the hardships worthwhile. Stein, a seasoned interviewer with deep relationships across the jazz world, creates space for her subjects to speak freely, and the result is an oral history of rare candour and richness.

For readers of WOMEN IN JAZZ and its Special Edition, this companion volume provides the primary-source depth behind the analysis — the raw material of memory and reflection from which history is made. For newcomers, it is an accessible entry point into the lives of women who have transformed one of the world's great musical traditions.

Recognition

• Companion volume to the JazzTimes-acclaimed Women in Jazz series

Author Bio

See WOMEN IN JAZZ — SPECIAL EDITION (above).

Book Details

Also by This Author

WOMEN IN JAZZ — SPECIAL EDITION; WOMEN IN JAZZ: THE WOMEN, THE LEGENDS & THEIR FIGHT (all published by 8th House Publishing)

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