JazzReach Premieres All-New Live Multimedia Programs

JazzReach Premieres All-new Live Multimedia Educational Program for Young Audiences Celebrating the Many Achievements of Women in Jazz!

In October 2006, JazzReach successfully debuted its exciting, most ambitious all-new live multi-media educational program for young audiences, SHE SAID/SHE SAYS: THE HISTORY & STATUS OF WOMEN IN JAZZ, at The Kravis Center for Performing Arts in West Palm Beach. FL. In total, JazzReach presented a total of six performances of this captivating new program and served over 1000 young Floridians.

Targeting students in grades 7-12, SHE SAID/SHE SAYS is an immersive 70-minute live multi-media educational program that, through live music, narration and stunning video and lighting design, illuminates some of the many important achievements of female composers, arrangers, instrumentalists and vocalists from early 20th century through present-day.

In contrast to the often negative, misogynistic images of women that permeate so much of today's mainstream popular media, SHE SAID/SHE SAYS celebrates the integrity of some of the many women who have dedicated their lives to the serious study and practice of music.

As Sherrie Tucker, Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Kansas so poignantly writes, "Women have played jazz on every instrument, in every style and era of the music's history, and have contributed to and engaged the same aesthetic and technical developments as their male colleagues. Yet - with the exception of singers and some pianists - they are invariably perceived as a new phenomenon. Once received as novelties, now more often celebrated as examples of women's progress in society, female jazz musicians do have a history" - and it needs to be told.