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. jazz's writing has appeared in journals that include Moko, Sukoon, Booth, Warscapes, Afropunk and Black Silk: A Collection of African-American Erotica. jazz has performed mixed media shows at venues that include Wow Cafe Theater, The Nuyorican Poet's Cafe, The Kitchen, Dixon Place and Bandini Espacio Cultural gallery in Mexico City. jazz is featured in Sara Driver's 2018 documentary "Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat." jazz's memoir Spill Ink On It was published by Spuyten-Duyvil Press in 2020.