Jazz without Patriarchy- an hour of Black Jazz
women’s music with Dr Angela Wellman.
Inspired by the motto of the Berklee Institute of Jazz and
Gender Justice at the Berklee School of Music, this hour of
“Jazz without Patriarchy” music curated by Jazz musician Dr
Angela Wellman, features some of the under-celebrated and
under-recognized Black female jazz performers and composers.
Theirs is music that pushes boundaries and expands the
common understanding of what Jazz is and can be. It is music
for the current times, inspiring hope, remembrance, revolution,
and healing.
In addition to hearing some cutting-edge music, Lisa Dettmer
talks to Dr. Angela Wellman about her life and work playing and
teaching Jazz.
Dr. Angela M. Wellman is an award-winning musician, scholar, educator, and activist. As a third-generation musician, Wellman has performed with a multitude of noted musicians such as the McCoy Tyner Big Band, Joe Williams, and Dee Dee Bridgewater. She is a recipient of multiple local and national awards, including the City of Oakland “Cultural Key to the City,” the Jazz Journalists Association’s Jazz Hero Award, the Arhoolie Award, the 2020 Caffie M. Greene Community Building Award from UPSurge! NY, the prestigious National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Study Fellowship, the 2021 Alameda County Arts Leadership Award, and the 2022 Lifetime Achievement Beacon Award from the International Women’s Brass Conference. Dr Wellman is also recipient of the 2023 Icons Among Us Award from the Black Joy Parade and an inductee in Alameda County Women’s Hall of Fame-2023. Dr Wellman is the founding director of the Oakland Public Conservatory of Music in Oakland which provides music education for people in urban areas and is unique in serving largely black and brown youth. OPC is part of a broader agenda to build a national network of Public Conservatories with a unified teaching philosophy and teaching practices that engender equity, belonging, and empathy through the music. In 2005 since she founded Oakland Public Conservatory, OPC has delivered masterclasses, performances, workshops, and community events by local and international artists. Dr Wellman has spent her whole life in music as a professional trombonist, teacher, and music education activist, focusing on ensuring that African American students have access to high-caliber music instruction.
Host-Lisa Dettmer
Board Operator- Melanie Berzon.