One of the few women to succeed as both a jazz instrumentalist and an arranger, Melba Liston was a true jazz pioneer. In the 1940s, '50s, and '60s, she played trombone in the big bands of Gerald ...

When Melba Liston came of musical age in 1940s California, the path for a woman wanting to become an arranger/composer and an instrumentalist in the jazz world was not only easy, it was almost non ...

and {{Chloe Youtsey, with birthday shoutouts to Melba Liston, Danny Bacher, Kris Davis, Sade, Chelsea McBride, Andrea Wolper, Tina Raymond, Peter Eldridge, Nicole Zuraitis, Joan Baez and Eartha Kitt, ...

Born in 1926 in Kansas City, Missouri, Melba Liston had an early interest in music. She saw a trombone when she was young and was taken by its beauty. Her family encouraged her interest in music and ...

Randy Weston & Melba Liston: Volcano Blues (Antilles). Randy Weston and Melba Liston’s “Volcano Blues” will remind listeners that there’s more to blues expression than the skeletal ...

Christmas Eve; What's My Line Theme; You Don't Say; Dark Before Dawn; Pow; Blues Melba; Trolley Song; Wonder Why; Insomnia; Very Syrian Business; Never Do An Abadanian; Zagred This. Melba Liston, ...

But outside of connoisseurs, few are familiar with the pioneering work of Melba Liston, who arranged two of pianist’s Weston’s most ambitious compositions, “Uhuru Afrika” and “Highlife ...

Not long ago, when musicians needed good charts, they called Melba Liston. Now, saxophonist Geof Bradfield and his ensemble offer the radio... Geof Bradfield's 'Melba!' On JazzSet Not long ago ...

It was a time, after all, when jazz greats like Louis Armstrong and Melba Liston were dispatched as cultural ambassadors to Africa’s post-colonial regions, only to realize they were smokescreens ...

It was a time, after all, when jazz greats like Louis Armstrong and Melba Liston were dispatched as cultural ambassadors to Africa’s post-colonial regions, only to realize they were smokescreens ...