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    The All-Female Big Bands That Made History During World War II

    NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Christian McBride of Jazz Night in America about the forgotten all-female big bands that toured the United States during World War II.
    by Audie Cornish Apr 17, 2019 1 minute
    The International Sweethearts of Rhythm in the 1940s.

    During World War II, with thousands of men shipping off to war, half a dozen all-female, instrumental big bands toured around America. It was a rarity in a musical world dominated by men and, for

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