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“…Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter One: A Status Report on the Contemporary Scene: Part One -- Chapter Two: A Status Report: Part Two -- Chapter Three: Remembrance of Things Passé: Jill McManus Recalls the Frustrations of the Jazz Sisters in the 1970s -- Chapter Four: Several Successful Contemporary Young Women Musicians Talk About Their Inspiration and Commitment -- Chapter Five: Pianists Renee Rosnes and Rachel Z, Rising to the Top in the 1990s, Ruminate About Their Worlds -- Chapter Six: A View from the Business Women -- Chapter Seven: The Instrument Is the Image -- INTRODUCTION TO THE PROFILES -- Chapter Eight: Kit McClure, Big-Band Leader: "You Did the Right thing -- INTRODUCTION TO THE STRING PLAYERS -- Chapter Nine: Tracy Wormworth, Bassist: "Doors Just Opened -- Chapter Ten: Emily Remler and the Guitarists -- INTRODUCTION TO THE HORN PLAYERS -- Chapter Eleven: Focusing on Trumpeter Rebecca Coupe Franks, Alto Saxophonists Virginia Mayhew, Carol Chaikin, and Sue Terry, French Horn Player
Stephanie Fauber, Oboist Kathy Halvorson, and Saxophonists Laura Dreyer and Paula Atherton -- Chapter Twelve: Trumpeters Laurie Frink and Stacy Rowles -- Chapter Thirteen: Flautists Elise Wood and Ali Ryerson -- Chapter Fourteen: Carol Sudhalter, A Role Model -- Chapter Fifteen: Jane Jra Bloom, Soprano Saxophonist and Experimentalist -- INTRODUCTION TO THE DRUMMERS -- Chapter Sixteen: Terri Lyne Carrington -- Chapter Seventeen: Cindy Blackman and Sylvia Cuenca -- Chapter Eighteen: Percussionist Carol Steele -- Chapter Nineteen: Individualists -- VIEWS FROM WOMEN AT THE TOP -- Chapter Twenty:
Shirley Horn: "I Got Older and Bolder -- Chapter Twenty-One: Joanne Brackeen Lives and Plays Without Any Dos and Don'ts -- Chapter Twenty-Two: The Wily Miss Dorothy Donegan, Mistress of Fiery Medleys…”
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