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Girls in the Band, The [Played June 13 as part of AARP's Movies for Grownups and available on Amazon Prime Video and various VOD platforms.] Judy Chaikin's entertaining, award-winning, captivating, inspirational, educational, insightful, 81-minute, 2011 documentary that showcases talented female jazz musicians from the 1930s to the present who struggled with racism, sexual abuse, bullying, and being overlooked for jobs while touring with all-girl bands across the country or playing alongside male performers and consists of archival photographs, film clips, performance snippets, and candid commentary by musicians (such as Geri Allen, Jessie Bailey, Clora Bryant, Roz Cron, Peggy Gilbert, Viola Smith, Sherrie Maricle, Carline Ray, Vi Redd, Janelle Reichman, Billie Rogers, Hazel Scott, Jerrie Thill, Willie Mae Wong, Patrice Rushen, and Helen Woods), singer and dancer Ina Ray Hutton, curator and voiceover artist James Briggs Murray, musicians and singers Esperanza Spalding and Diana Krall, music historian Tammy L. Kernodle, Piney Woods School founder Dr. Laurence C. Jones, composers and Big Band leaders Maria Schneider and Nedra Wheeler, Kennedy Center musical director Dr. Billy Taylor, singer and Big Band leader Anna Mae Winburn, musicians and composers Jane Ira Bloom and Terri Lyne Carrington, jazz musician and band leader Herbie Hancock, journalists and Women's Jazz Festival cofounders Carol Comer and Dianne Gregg, and pianists and jazz composers Hiromi Uehara, Mary Lou Williams, and Marian McPartland.
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