women's history month

If you watch the Seattle Mariners on Root Sports Northwest, then you're familiar with anchor and reporter Angie Mentink. But you may not be familiar with all the history she's made.

March 10 is the day politician Clare Boothe Luce and cornetist Bix Beiderbecke were born in 1903. It's also the day a guy named William Knox rolled the first "perfect" game (scoring 300 with all strikes) in sanctioned bowling history.

March 9 is the day America's namesake Amerigo Vespucci and free jazz pioneer Ornette Coleman were born. It's also the day Bertha Knight Landes was elected mayor of Seattle, becoming the first female mayor of a major U.S. city.

Defying the norms of her time, Lucille Dixon played a "man's instrument," the contrabass, led her own jazz band and managed New York City's first racially integrated symphony orchestra.

The first national Women's History Week occurred in 1980. Seven years later, Congress passed a law designating March as Women's History Month.

Next Jazz Legacy is a new national apprenticeship program for women and non-binary improvisers in jazz. The first seven participants have been selected to receive personalized apprenticeships and financial support.

Canada's only professional all-women big band debuted in 2019, and then got sidelined in 2020 by COVID-19. It's coming back swinging and celebrating the rich artistic contributions of the female jazz community as performers, composers and arrangers on March 11.

It's Women's History Month, with International Women's Day coming up on March 8. Jazz Caliente features music from some of our favorite Latin jazz women this Saturday.

The Maya Angelou quarter is the first in the American Women Quarters Program, which honor prominent women in U.S. history.

Necessity drove more women to the workplace in the 20th century. Ambition - and just being good at their jobs - kept them there. But women were held to…