Diva Joan Cartwright created this website to celebrate Amazing Women in Jazz and Blues
Joan Cartwright Artist-in-Residence for Pan African Bookfest presents Women in Jazz at William Dandy Middle School in Fort Lauderdale, FL
- Toshiko
Akiyoshi
- Geri Allen
- Andrews Sisters
- Angela Andrews
- Lil Harden Armstrong
- Dorothy Ashby
- Pearl Bailey
- Beverly Barkley
- Karen Briggs
- Suzanne Brooks
- Ruth Brown
- Blanche Calloway
- Diane Cameron
- Betty Carter
- Joan Cartwright
- Kim Clarke
- Gloria Coleman
- Alice Coltrane
- Sasha Daltonn
- Dorothy Donegan
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Gloria Galante
- Rita Graham
- Jace Harnage
- Billie Holiday
- Bertha Hope
- Shirley Horn
- Lena Horne
- Alberta Hunter
- Jus' Cynthia
- Sandra Kaye
- Emme Kemp
Knight- Vinnie
- Lavelle
- Peggy Lee
- Abbey Lincoln
- Melba Liston
- Gloria Lynne
- Tania Maria
- Marian McPartland
- Carmen McRae
- Mabel Mercer
- M'zuri
- Sandy Patton
- Trudy Pitts
- Cheryl Porter
- Irene Reid
- Shirley Scott
- Nina Simone
- Bessie Smith
- Dakota Staton
- Carol Sudhalter
- Monnette Sudler
- Sarah Vaughn
- Dinah Washington
- Ethel Waters
- Mary Lou Williams
- Geri Allen
