
International Womxn's Day Special: What would jazz look like without the patriarchy?
Three years ago, on International Women’s Day, NPR’s jazz writer Michelle Mercer published an analysis of a sexist exchange between two of the major male talents in the jazz world — Robert Glasper and Ethan Iverson of the Bad Plus. In an interview with Iverson on his podcast, Glasper said that one of the reason he plays is because its attractive to women—and he even went as far as to say: “I've seen what that does to the audience, playing that groove. I love making the audien