NEW JAZZ BOOK BY W.ROYAL STOKES INCLUDES MANY WOMEN MUSICIANS

Celebrated author and music critic W. Royal Stokes latest release on Oxford University Press, "Growing Up With Jazz" contains profiles of twenty-four jazz musicians, including saxohonists CAROL SUDHALTER, George Botts, Claire Daly, John Firmin, Howard Johnson, and Britisher Ray Gelato; clarinetists Don Byron and Evan Christopher; singers Jane Monheit, René Marie, Lisa Sokolov, Nora York, Netherlands-based Oklahoma native Shaunette Hildabrand, and the late Pam Bricker; pianists Billy Taylor, Armen Donelian, Patrizia Scascitelli, René van Helsdingen, and Uri Caine; bassist Leonard Gaskin; drummer Art Blakey; guitarist Monnette Sudler; Indonesian violinist Luluk Purwanto; and Umbria Jazz festival producer Carlo Pagnotta.

For Italy, you can buy it here: http://www.libreriauniversitaria.it/BUS/r_BIO00400/p_1/Composers_&_Musicians.htm