jennifer jazz

Who is jennifer jazz?

jennifer jazz is a New York writer, musician and performance artist. Closely associated with the eighties East Village art scene, she was the lead singer and drummer for punk group the Guerilla Girls as well as Pleasure, an early electronica, dub and free jazz influenced band that featured Felice Rosser, Danny Hamilton, Richard Cleves, Martin Wheeler, Jemeel Moondoc and Daniel Carter.

jazz's writing has appeared in Warscapes, A Gathering of the Tribes, Sensitive Skin, the International Review of African American Art, Black Silk: A Collection of African-American Erotica, and make/shift magazine. She has received awards for unpublished fiction from the Barbara Deming Fund for feminists in the arts, Bronx Council on the Arts and Fine Arts Work Center. jazz has performed mixed-media shows at venues that include Dixon Place and Longwood Arts Gallery in the South Bronx. In 1996, she played the role of Virginia in the film Rescuing Desire. jazz's own short film Je m'ennuie was part of the UAMO Festival 2010 in Munich.