This week for What Where When-sday we highlight two jazz events. On Thursday (June 25) the Nashville Women in Jazz Redefining the Standards album release show is at Urban Cowboy in East Nashville. Nashville Women in Jazz’s mission is working to create a more equitable jazz scene in Nashville by challenging the hiring norms and increasing visibility for women and underrepresented musicians.
 ”It started in 2017 as a support group getting together for jazz jams and sharing resources,” said Alayna Renae, musician and community organizer. “From there, I started listening to the community’s needs, and everyone was having a hard time getting booked. I wanted to develop residencies around town where I could book artists from our community to shine a light on them, get them hired, and get them paid. I started a sign-up form where people could connect to this collective of Nashville Women in Jazz. From there, I started a database so that you could find women and gender expansive musicians, so that people could stop saying, “Well, I don’t know any women to hire.” There’s an accessible database online that you can go to now to find musicians and hire them, collaborate with them.”
Redefining the Standards is the first ever all-women recording project to be recorded at the legendary RCA Studio B with the title referring to redefining who is remembered in jazz and redefining classic jazz standards.  They are currently hosting a residency at Urban Cowboy every Thursday night from 7-10 p.m.  with a different woman or gender expansive musician leading a band in any subgenre of jazz.
The second jazz event we’re covering this week is Jazzy 88 WFSK Fisk Food & Jazz Music Festival taking place on the university’s campus this Saturday. WFSK started in 1973 providing smooth and contemporary jazz, becoming the first African American FM radio station in Nashville and the first in Nashville’s history to have a jazz music format. General manager Sharon Kay has been with the station for 20 years started the music festival back in 2016.
 ”Generally, it’s a funky good time” she said. “We are the cool people of Nashville, and we have visitors or attendees that come from other states, too. It’s free and our lineups, we always have some of the big names in the genre, and we’re blessed in Nashville to have a lot of musicians here. We’re giving to the local community in terms of hiring them to back these folks. But we’re bringing in the name that when you go on a cruise or you go to a festival in another city you’ll recognize them. Expose it to people who normally wouldn’t be able to pay for a ticket to go to something like that.”
Additional events start tonight (June 24) when WNXP Presents Widowspeak at the Blue Room, Brother Wallace takes the stage at the OG Basement, and R&Babu takes place at Cafe Babu. Superdrag performs three nights at Eastside Bowl beginning on Thursday (June 25) and on Friday (June 26) the WNXP Summer Line Series kicks off with CeCe Coakley & Devon Gilfillian. Nashville Pride Parade and Festival takes place on Saturday (June 27).
