Eight years in the making, Judy Chaikin ’s documentary The Girls In the Band sets that story straight.Ĭompleted in 2011 but not widely released until 2015, the film fills in the much-needed history of women in jazz from the earliest days of Lil Hardin Armstrong (who started with King Oliver and she, not Louis Armstrong, first led the original Hot Five) all the way to the present with young phenoms like Anat Cohen. For all the freedom and liberation that has been intimately associated with the history of Jazz, the struggles of women to find and secure their rightful places in the music has been an ongoing untold story. But leave the real instruments, the soloing and all the rest to the men. If you can play the piano, maybe there is room for you as well. If you’re a cute woman who can sing, there’s a place for you on the bandstand.
She loves to travel and many destinations such as the Scottish countryside end up being reflected in her work.Matthew Goldwasser reviews The Girls in the Band, movie clip, music clips by International Sweethearts of Rhythm, Mary Lou Williams & Andy Kirk’s Clouds of Joyįor much of the history of jazz, this has largely been the deal. Sargent and the soft marinescapes of Homer.Elizabeth is a member of The Sonoran Art League and Az. She also loves the figurative work of watercolorist Dean Mitchell and John S.
I love all aspects of art and I am continually looking for and learning new concepts, techniques and styles.”Įlizabeth is influenced by the Impressionists particularly Monet for his play of lights and washes of color. “I don’t want to be pigeonholed as a specific ‘kind’ of painter.
She also finds a lot of artistic freedom in contemporary or abstract painting.
“I prefer acrylics because it can be combined with a lot of water to achieve the movement and spontaneity that I want in all of my work.” Her subjects range from seascapes and landscapes to wildlife and people. Elizabeth works mainly with acrylic paints due to their versatility and drying time. She received her Art Degree from Auburn University and has studied locally at The Scottsdale Artist School and abroad at The Universite per Stranierei in Perugia, Italy.į. Elizabeth Douglass has been painting professionally for the last sixteen years.
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