Clora Bryant: Gal with a Horn (Vinyl LP) [ vinyl ]

Clora Bryant (trumpet), Roger Fleming (piano), Ben Tucker (bass), Bruz Freeman (drums), Walter Benton (tenor), Normie Faye (trumpet). Tracks are: Gypsy in My Soul (Boland, Jaffe); Makin' Whoopee (Donaldson, Kahn); Man with a Horn (Lake, Jenny, Delange); Sweet Georgia Brown (Bernie, Pinkard, Casey); Tea for Two (Youman's, Caesar), This Can't Be Love (Rodgers, Hart); Little Girl Blue (Rodgers, Hart); S'Posin'(Denniker, Razaf). Recorded June, 1957. Clora Bryant not only provides some driving bebop styled trumpet playing reminiscent of Dizzy Gillespie, but displays a very entertaining vocal style, as well. At the time of this recording she was performing regularly at the Oasis on Western Ave, with Eric Dolphy and Walter Benton.