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Oral history project preserves the legacy of Detroit women in jazz

Oral historian Veronica Johnson partnered with the Detroit Sound Conservancy to create the Detroit Women in Jazz Oral History Project. The project digitizes and archives interviews with women in Detroit’s jazz scene. One Detroit contributor Cecelia Sharpe of 90.9 WRCJ talks with Johnson about the women who have shaped Detroit’s jazz culture and how their stories are being preserved.

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