Hit me with some of your favorite women players - no matter the instrument. Links appreciated where possible! It's a little crazy how male dominated jazz/blues/rock/jamband instrumental talent seems to be. Like we can all name a bunch of great female players I'm sure, but there's so many more men. So, let's shine a light on some great female players.
My favorite is Hiromi Uehara - jazz piano player. Here she is with her old fusion group Sonicbloom playing "Time Difference".
And 1 more - Time Out
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kaki king
Anat Cohen - clarinet, tenor, and soprano sax
Terri Lynne Carrington - drums
Cindy Cashdollar - Queen of the slide, unbelievable steel guitar
Anat Cohen - clarinet, tenor, and soprano sax
Terri Lynne Carrington - drums
Prime example of what I was hoping for in this thread. The Anat Cohen links were great and I wasn't familiar with her at all until now.
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Marcia Ball
"Louella"
Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Didn't It Rain
some righteous strummin and pickin on he '59 Les Paul
The Carter Family - Helen, Anita, June - Wildwood Flower
Jennifer Batten-Beat It
This Is It - Beat It (Solo) - Orianthi with Michael Jackson
Heart's Nancy Wilson on acoustic guitar-"Crazy On You"
Heart's Nancy Wilson on electric guitar and piano "Alone"
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Barbara Dennerlein!!!! Wailing on the Hammond B3.
the other Rory.
Rory Block.
Tal Wilkenfeld
I also like the Marcia Ball suggestion..
Bonnie Rait..
Hannah Wicklund.
Susan Tedeschi
Sara Watkins
Sarah Jarosz
Alana Rocklin (Bass player for STS9)
One of my favorite drummers, Cindy Blackman Santana!
One of the tastiest and funkiest bass players, love Ms. Rhonda Smith who has played with Prince & Jeff Beck!
The amazing Alison Krauss on fiddle., "Sawing On The Strings"
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yoko ono
Jane Ira Bloom.
I saw her do a lecture and performance at the High Museum as part of the Atlanta Jazz Festival in the late 80's or early 90's. She talked about the architecture of music and actually built towers of sound in the auditorium. Really cool stuff.
Miles Davis performed at that same Jazz Festival. I learned a lot in just a couple of days.
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Scheila Gonzalez - Best known around here as multi-instrumentalist in the Zappa Plays Zappa band.
seconding Ipowrie on Sarah Jarosz - phenomenal vox and instrumentalist, picked up Grammy this year
btw she is touring right now, out east, first run out west in Sept, wish I could follow her around like a Deadhead
Esperanza Spalding, who's a bunch of rare things at once: a young woman in jazz who plays upright bass and sings.
The divine Sheila E. live version of "The Glamorous Life" with drum solo! (I got to see Sheila open for Prince at my very first concert, November 1984 Purple Rain Tour at The Capital Center in Landover, Maryland and the crowd went wild when she performed this.
Vixen! One of my very favorite all ladies bands and all virtuosos. Band founder, songwriter, lead kick ass & very bad ass guitarist the late Jan Kuehnemund, Share Pedersen on bass, Roxy Petrucci on drums, and Janet Gardner on rhythm guitar & lead vocals. LOVE this band!!
LIVE Vixen concert, Vixen - Live in Daytona Beach, FL 1989 [Full Concert]
Love Made Me
Edge Of A Broken Heart
I Want You To Rock Me ......These Ladies can RAWKKK!!
The late, GREAT Ms. Teena Marie with "Lovergirl" Play that funky geetar!
CHARO - Malagueña - LIVE in Morongo Casino 12/13/2013, savvy for parlaying comedy and her clebrity into her "bit" and also doing much acting in TV, Charo is actually one of the world's greatest classical Flamenco Guitarists. Twice voted best flamenco guitarist in the world by Guitar Player Magazine
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Tina Guo
Wonder Woman
Joe Bonamassa with Tina Guo - Woke Up Dreaming
Put me down for sister rosetta tharpe as well. it's shocking how history has overlooked her
I would love to see TTB take this on.
Sarah Jarosz as well for me, such a talented young lady
I get a kick outta this one
Bonnaroo 2014: Sarah Jarosz - "Crazy" // The Bluegrass Situation
and of course Suzie.... I Pity The Fool
Holly Bowling - MVP of last year's Christmas Jam. Can't post youtubes @ work but she's classically trained and just awesome on Piano & B3.
Thornetta Davis, *Detroit's Queen of the Blues". This gal is the real article! I can't believe she hasn't broken through national yet.
Her 2016 album "Honest Woman" is stellar.
"I Believe"
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u6rTA9NlP2A
