Award-winning jazz bassist, educator and mentor Hayden, at age 68, is today the youngest recipient of Detroit’s highest arts honor and the 17th Detroiter to be anointed for contributions to the region ...

Explore iconic ‘70s female singers who defined a decade. Discover their timeless music, unforgettable voices and lasting ...

Hayden is the youngest Kresge Eminent Artist at age 68 and the second recipient to have also received a Kresge Artist Fellowship. She is also the third jazz musician to have received the honor; ...

In 2018 Hayden was artistic director for the Knight Arts Foundation Grant to encourage young female jazz artists. She was also honored by Kresge in 2016 with a one-year fellowship. As an educator ...

When jazz musician and educator Marion Hayden treated herself to a sushi lunch on a random day in December, she was definitely not expecting a life-changing phone call. Today, Kresge Arts in ...

Happy listening and please support the artists you hear ... She was a dedicated jazz pianist, who established a reputation as “Hot Miss Lil," one of the few female band ensemble members of the 1920’s.

McPartland was writing a book on female jazz musicians and she was determined to speak to her ... explaining how the Americans occupied her home city of Leipzig after the war. She was studying art at ...

a trio of female artists who span Baroque to top 100 tunes, on Saturday and jazz harpist Brandee Younger — who will perform on Alice Coltrane’s restored harp at a Carnegie Hall event produced ...

New wave artists were a dime a dozen back in the 1980s, but these female-fronted bands delivered quite a few underrated hits.