‘Music has often been regarded as men’s work’
When the artist and writer Juliana Huxtable first discovered the American jazz singer Linda Sharrock, she was “firmly in the ‘psychedelic era’” of her life. “I am convinced Linda’s renderings found me,” she writes in , an essay that doesn’t just pay tribute to one woman’s croons, but also draws us into the “masterful eruption of unmistakably Black expression”. Sharrock is, for Huxtable, a virtuoso in a long line of Black
