In the Foundation’s favor, this year—for the fourth time since I’ve been tracking it, which is many years—the female-appearing Fellows are about equal in number to the male-appearing Fellows: 13 seeming males, 11 seeming female and 1 nonbinary fellow. The Fellows process has been grea...
M3 Musicians LLC (Mutual Mentorship for Musicians — Jen Shyu & Sara Serpa, co-founders) New York City Grant Amount: $40,000 Residency Location: New York City Mutual Mentorship for Musicians, a 26-member cohort led by Jen Shyu and Sara Serpa, has commissioned 24 women, non-binary, BIPOC...
After two false starts in the studio,Grant’s First Stand, released in May 1961, finally got Grant Green’s Blue Note career underway. Not only did the label’s bosses dig his mellow style and ability to groove, but other musicians did, too: by 1966, when his first stint with the lab...