'Women in Jazz' Listening Session

Gospel carried the spirit. Blues carried the frustration. Soul carried the movement.

Jazz broke every rule. Neo soul put it all back together. And at the centre of every one of those revolutions was a woman.

Ma Rainey sang the blues before the blues even had a name. Billie Holiday turned pain into the most precise art form in the room. Aretha Franklin transformed a word into a rallying cry. Lauryn Hill took everything that came before and made it entirely her own.

This Saturday, singer and curator Nayantara Dutta traces that lineage at The Revolver Club, moving through a century of sound, from vaudeville blues to neo soul, and the women who refused to be written out of the story. Come to listen. Stay to discover how much you didn’t know.

Free Entry via RSVP.