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Rachel Horn

  • Trombonist and arranger Melba Liston is one of the women featured in a new documentary about female instrumentalists in jazz, <em>The Girls in the Band.</em>
    Equal At Last? Women In Jazz, By The Numbers
    Lara Pellegrinelli, Shannon J. Effinger, Jordannah Elizabeth, Kira Grunenberg, Rachel Horn, Georgia Sebesky, Natalie Weiner
    Half of the top 10 spots in 2019's NPR Music Jazz Critics Poll went to women. But a deeper look at the data from across the poll's lifetime complicates claims about women's equality in jazz.