Book of Donmon Teith

The International Sweethearts of Rhythm, a popular women's jazz band of the 1940s, has earned a reputation as the 'best all-women's swing band ever to perform.'

Back in 1909, not far from Jackson, Mississippi, Dr. Laurence Clifton Jones opened a special place for orphans named Piney Woods Country Life School. Dr. Jones

A collection of poems and paintings paying tribute to the 1940's all-female jazz band. The International Sweethearts of Rhythm originated in a boarding school i

The story, based on extensive individual interviews, of the women’s swing bands that toured extensively during World War II and after -- a kind of “League o

In jazz circles, players and listeners with “big ears” hear and engage complexity in the moment, as it unfolds. Taking gender as part of the intricate, unpr