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Women in jazz still face many barriers to success – new research

By Paul Widdop, Senior Lecturer in Sport Business, Leeds Beckett University
Siobhan McAndrew, Senior Lecturer, Quantitative Social Science, University of Bristol

There are are relatively few female musicians in jazz. Recordings led by women formed only one-fifth of the top 50 albums NPR Music Jazz Critics Poll over 2017 to 2019, and this seems to be a long-term trend: a survey of British jazz musicians in 2004 suggested 14% were female.

Rather than there being explicit barriers to entry, scholarly…

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