El Paso Jazz Girls

By: Amanda Ekery Happy Women’s History Month! I’m happy to share some exciting books I’ve recently read that have shaped new thoughts and...

By: Amanda Ekery Over the past few months I’ve been really interested in fungi – how they decompose material, how they connect plants...

By: Amanda Ekery During Women’s History Month read something new, something exciting, and something that will make you think! Below are...

By: Amanda Ekery With the start of the New Year comes new plans, ideas, hopes, and goals. It seems everyone has been posting their...

By: Dr. Joyce Hsu This is the time of the semester where everyone is swamped by multiple responsibilities – marching band, rehearsals for...

By: Jess Goodrich Within the past year, a few colleagues and I, with the help of the chair of the University of North Texas’s jazz...

By: Ally Hany Albrecht A few months ago, I traveled to New York to play with the DIVA Jazz Orchestra. I was hanging around backstage at...

By Amanda Ekery El Paso Jazz Girls 2019 just wrapped up and I’ve been recalling all of the wonderful ideas, collaborations,...

By: Gabby Byrd As you probably well know, Texas doesn't exactly experience regular "seasons"; still, I've come to find that most people...

By: Melissa Weikart Inspiration is a strange concept. People inspire, events inspire, art inspires, the way the sun peeks out from behind...

By: Amanda Ekery This Women’s History Month is a great time to read some wonderful books about music, adventure, civil rights, and more!...

By Raychel Taylor My role as a woman in music is a culmination of my experiences as a performing musician, music educator, and arts...

By Hannah Grantham Why do we study music? Have you ever asked the question, "I wonder why they wrote that" while listening to music? Did...

By: Grace Ward My decision to audition for TMEA All-State Jazz was one made on a whim. It was the result of me thinking “Surely it can’t...

By: Amanda Ekery I started planning for El Paso Jazz Girls on April 2, 2018. I remember the date because a peer posted a sexist comment...