Race, Gender, Jazz & Local 493: Black Women Musicians in Seattle: 1920-1955 •

During its brief and rocky tenure from 1918 to 1924, pianist Gertrude Harvey Wright was one of four women in Seattle’s first black musicians’ union, the American Federation of Musicians’ Local 458.  Wright,  Virginia Hughes, a “Mrs. Austin,” and (Edythe) “Turnham,” all worked with their … Read MoreRace, Gender, Jazz & Local 493: Black Women Musicians in Seattle: 1920-1955

Seattle's all girl jazz group Las Senoritas faces off against New York's the Ebony Serenaders in an epic Battle of the Bands on June 25, 1930.

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