Overall, six bands with songs on the countdown included female instrumentalists.

She was also known as an advocate for women trying to make their way in jazz, a culture long hostile to female instrumentalists.

Hunter was also one of the first prominent female instrumentalists in rock music.

In 1973, female instrumentalists performed with the MMB for the first time.

Among a very few successful female instrumentalists of her generation in jazz, she is also recognized as a major figure in jazz composition.

Despite a growing number of female instrumentalists, the audience for jazz remains overwhelmingly male, which perhaps explains why jazz itself remains an enclave of machismo.

Ms. Maines makes her voice leap and break in honky-tonk style, and the other two Dixie Chicks are not only singers but something rare among country hitmakers, female instrumentalists.

And their music is built around a country rarity: female instrumentalists.

Flanked by two queens, emperor Kharavela was watching a dance recital where a damsel was performing a dance in front of the court along with the company of female instrumentalists.

By 1972, she was recording for the Blue Note Jazz label, one of the first female instrumentalists to do so.