Barbara Donald

[HW!]

http://www.theolympian.com/2013/03/27/2479348/death-notices-for-march-27.html

Barbara Donald passed away on March 27, 2013, aged 70. R.I.P.

After she suffered several strokes in the early 1990s, she was removed to a nursing home and was unable to perform anymore.

[king ubu]

Oh shit, that's sad!

Got to dig up that LP of hers.

[Justin V]

I wondered what had become of her. She definitely held her own among the stellar musicians on Burning Spirits. RIP.

[JSngry]

One of the most compelling, strongest voices of her time, imo. RIP indeed.

[sidewinder]

I really like her recordings with Sonny Simmons and would like to hear the later stuff too. Truly sorry to hear this - RIP.

[clifford_thornton]

Huh, I had actually assumed she was already gone - which is embarrassing.

She was a monster.

[romualdo]

That's sad - RIP Barbara

Have just finished reading "Always In Trouble" Oral Hx of ESP-Disk by Jason Weiss

She wasn't interviewed for the book but is mentioned a few times by Sonny Simmons & James Zitro (who I noticed has just become an organissimo member in the last week or so)

[Utevsky]

She was awesome. A really spirited player. It's too bad she never got much exposure.

[Carl Baugher]

She was a fine musician. Sorry to hear of her passing.

[paul secor]

She was a fine musician. Sorry to hear of her passing.

Wondering if you're the fellow who wrote for Cadence.

If you are, or if you're not, welcome.

[Late]

 

[Holy Ghost]

 

Doesn't happen often you have a woman jazz trumpeter quite like Barbara Donald; instantly liked her sense of style on the Sonny Simmons records. 

[Pim]

1 hour ago, Holy Ghost said:

 

Doesn't happen often you have a woman jazz trumpeter quite like Barbara Donald; instantly liked her sense of style on the Sonny Simmons records. 

Oh yes she’s great. When I first heard her play I thought I heard one of the more well known trumpeters. When I looked on the sleeve of my Simmons records I was surprised I never heard of her before. 

[Niko]

Started reading the Sonny Simmons autobiography, he's trash talking everyone he ever met for their substance abuse, their lack of character... According to Sonny, Barbara consumed way too much Diet Coke (or was it Pepsi? Need to read again)

[felser]

9 hours ago, Niko said:

Started reading the Sonny Simmons autobiography, he's trash talking everyone he ever met for their substance abuse, their lack of character... According to Sonny, Barbara consumed way too much Diet Coke (or was it Pepsi? Need to read again)

Doesn't sound like a particularly rewarding book.

[Niko]

4 hours ago, felser said:

Doesn't sound like a particularly rewarding book.

It does make a lot of sense that it was only published after he left us... 500 pages of ramblings from a world in which being a pimp is more respectable than drinking Pepsi... He does have some interesting memories of famous people though, and the book gives a lot of context to his career... It did not make me want to listen to his music more though 

[clifford_thornton]

20 hours ago, Niko said:

According to Sonny, Barbara consumed way too much Diet Coke (or was it Pepsi? Need to read again)

this has been corroborated!

[Niko]

4 hours ago, clifford_thornton said:

this has been corroborated!

The book is just an endless stream of JC Moses was a pimp and Bertha Hope was on heroin, Frank Haynes, too, and George Brown was on crack and violent and Barbara Donald was on Pepsi, and ... I am sure a lot of it is accurate and some of it is not (e.g. the findagrave memorial on Frank Haynes reads a bit different from the speculation in Simmons' book)... In the case of Barbara Donald, her life would have been so different if Simmons could have managed his addictions to much more serious substances than Pepsi better when their kids were little... So I felt he wasn't in a position to be judgemental... Even though, yes, softdrinks are more dangerous than the industry wants you to believe...

Edited 3 hours ago by Niko

[clifford_thornton]

Yeah, I have little interest in the book to be honest. The few reviews I've read aren't particularly inspiring.