Clora Bryant

Clora Bryant (born May 30, 1927, in Denison, Texas) is an American jazz trumpeter. She started in music as a singer in her Baptist church, but took up the trumpet after her brother, Frederick Bryant (born March 21, 1918 who currently resides in Lawton, Oklahoma), left it on going into the Army in 1941. She studied improvisation using a wire recorder to record her own soloing … [Read more...] about Wednesday Open Thread: Black Female Jazz Musicians