Today we consider the world of jazz and critical recognition– in particular around the NPR Music Jazz Critics Poll, which took the years 2017, 2018 and 2019 into consideration in NPR’s feature, ‘Equal At Last? Women In Jazz, By The Numbers’. The close study looks at various aspects of gender representation in the genre and album releases and how this measures against critical acclaim. It brings to question as to how we are challenging the critics who are the list makers – who exactly are the ‘experts’ in a male-dominated industry and media? 

Read the full findings here.