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Joan Cartwright

Joan Cartwright is an explosive jazz and blues singer, composer and lecturer. She's performed in the U.S. for 25 years and in Europe since 1990. She toured 8 European countries, Africa and Mexico. Joan sings her own songs and those of Ellington, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Cole Porter, Gershwin, Jobim and the standard composers. She is an extraordinary performer who can enchant any audience anywhere! She is the recipient of a SEAS Grant for her presentation of WOMEN IN JAZZ at schools in Broward County, Florida. Her research paper, The Sign of The Blues, was published in the 1993 IAJE Research Papers Journal. She offers lectures around the country on - Women in Jazz, Jazzmen, The Sign of The Blues, Jazz: The Unmasked Rhetoric, The Cultural Politics of Commercial Jazz, and The Business of Music: So, You Want To Be A Singer?

Her interviews for Entertainment News & Views, include Dr. Billy Taylor, Wynton Marsalis, Bobby McFerrin, Lonnie Liston Smith and Sun Ra. She interviewed Quincy Jones and Abby Lincoln for her Master's thesis, The Cultural Politics of Commercial Jazz.

Joan produced the First Annual Gaiafest, "A celebration of Mother Earth with Women in Jazz", in March 1998, featuring legendary vocalists Dakota Staton and Ruth 'Silky' Waters, and the Gaia All-Stars with Kim Clark (b), Bertha Hope (p), Bernice Brooks (d) and Pamela Williams (sax). In September 1998 and 1999, it was produced in the Bronx, New York. Ultimately, Gaiafest will travel around the world.

Her column Inside Europe in African American Travel, the nation's premier magazine for black travelers, covers Italy, Switzerland, England, Germany and Barcelona. She's written numerous articles for The Westside Gazette, IN FOCUS MAGAZINE and Pick Up & GO!, an environmental newsletter, and her company, FYI Communications, is a clearinghouse for these publications and for fine art.

In 1998, Joan co-produced and co-hosted the cable show, Let's Get Serious, with Ruth 'Silky' Waters. This Miami talk show presents 36 positive role models for youth from all walks of life including politics, education, the arts and business.

A Diva in her own right, Joan Cartwright has always been close to the center of the music scene from Jazz in Harlem to Hiphop in Atlanta, where she shares a studio with...

A Diva in her own right, Joan Cartwright has always been close to the center of the music scene from Jazz in Harlem to Hiphop in Atlanta, where she shares a studio with her daughter, Mimi Johnson of Caustic Dames. Joan's newest release is a compilation of recordings made since 1983 to the present.