Susie Ibarra

Jennifer Choi (left) performs with Susie in the Susie Ibarra Trio.

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In 1964, the jazz critic Whitney Balliet theorized that women seldom made an impact as jazz instrumentalists because they lacked the physical strength necessary to blow on a horn or beat on the drums. But on a recent night at Tonic, a performance space on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the drummer Susie Ibarra ferociously disproved Mr. Balliett's theory.

- New York Times