jazztrain Posted September 2, 2019 Report Share Posted September 2, 2019 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/01/arts/music/clora-bryant-dead.html?searchResultPosition=1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted September 2, 2019 Report Share Posted September 2, 2019 Wow, I randomly pulled, listened to, and very much enjoyed, Gal With A Horn just a week or two ago. Sad to hear that the vocals were forced on her...who knows what else was over her lifetime? RIP, and here's to all the stories that at best get told partially, when told at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
six string Posted September 2, 2019 Report Share Posted September 2, 2019 Very sad story and with women it is too common. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medjuck Posted September 2, 2019 Report Share Posted September 2, 2019 I first heard of her because of "Central Avenue Sounds" the fine book she co-edited along with (amongst others) Buddy Collette. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Beat Steve Posted September 2, 2019 Report Share Posted September 2, 2019 3 hours ago, JSngry said: Wow, I randomly pulled, listened to, and very much enjoyed, Gal With A Horn just a week or two ago. Sad to hear that the vocals were forced on her...who knows what else was over her lifetime? RIP, and here's to all the stories that at best get told partially, when told at all. I had first heard of her when I got myself a copy of the "Gal With a Horn" album a good 15 years ago in my quest to get the entire MODE LP series complete (minus 1 or 2 MOR-ish vocals album that I skipped). DB gave it 3 stars at the time but for all her talent on trumpet that would enable her "to hold her own" in many settings found her voice had "considerable intonation difficulties". It wasn't until several years later that I became aware of her later documentary acitivites when I bought the Central Avenue Sounds book. RIP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidewinder Posted September 2, 2019 Report Share Posted September 2, 2019 I never saw her - but my copy of Isoardi’s ‘Central Avenue Sounds’ does have her signature, along with a number of the other interviewees. RIP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJ Shearn Posted September 2, 2019 Report Share Posted September 2, 2019 Damn. RIP. A MAJOR inspiration for women on the jazz scene today. I think she and Viola Smith are two of the most important women to emerge in jazz at that time, of course Shirley Scott too, all in that span of a few decades. I mentioned Clora in my women in jazz piece for New York Jazz Workshop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez Posted September 3, 2019 Report Share Posted September 3, 2019 RIP I saw her in LA a few times at a table seeing the show at the jazz club Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllenLowe Posted September 3, 2019 Report Share Posted September 3, 2019 (edited) I saw you at the LA show watching her watching the show. And the FBI was watching me watch you watch her watching the the show. Edited September 3, 2019 by AllenLowe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez Posted September 3, 2019 Report Share Posted September 3, 2019 lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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