epjazzgirls Nov 25, 2020 2 min Fungi, Social Media, & an Idea By: Amanda Ekery Over the past few months I’ve been really interested in fungi – how they decompose material, how they connect plants und...
epjazzgirls Mar 1, 2020 4 min Recommended Reads: Women’s History Month Edition 2 By: Amanda Ekery During Women’s History Month read something new, something exciting, and something that will make you think! Below are 1...
epjazzgirls Jan 7, 2020 2 min Intentions for the New Year By: Amanda Ekery With the start of the New Year comes new plans, ideas, hopes, and goals. It seems everyone has been posting their resolu...
epjazzgirls Oct 19, 2019 4 min Bringing Awareness into Our Creative Lives By: Dr. Joyce Hsu This is the time of the semester where everyone is swamped by multiple responsibilities – marching band, rehearsals for...
epjazzgirls Sep 14, 2019 4 min Organizing Change: Starting the Women in Jazz Initiative at UNT 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 depart...
epjazzgirls Aug 10, 2019 5 min Military Band Life 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 D...
epjazzgirls Jul 2, 2019 3 min Year Two in the Books By Amanda Ekery El Paso Jazz Girls 2019 just wrapped up and I’ve been recalling all of the wonderful ideas, collaborations, relationships...
epjazzgirls May 14, 2019 5 min Summer Playlists: Night and Day By: Gabby Byrd As you probably well know, Texas doesn't exactly experience regular "seasons"; still, I've come to find that most people e...
epjazzgirls Apr 2, 2019 3 min Sitting With It: Thoughts on Inspiration & Creativity By: Melissa Weikart Inspiration is a strange concept. People inspire, events inspire, art inspires, the way the sun peeks out from behind...
epjazzgirls Feb 28, 2019 4 min Recommended Reads: Women’s History Month Edition By: Amanda Ekery This Women’s History Month is a great time to read some wonderful books about music, adventure, civil rights, and more! ...
