Gloria Coleman

Gloria Coleman ( born 1931 in New York City; † 10 February 2010) was an American soul-jazz organist, pianist and composer and bass player and singer. She was married with saxophonist George Coleman; their son is the drummer George Coleman Jr.

Biography

Gloria Coleman studied violin, piano and bass; her career as a musician, she began in 1952 as a bassist in Philadelphia with pianists like Sarah McLawler and Myrtle Young, as well as Sony Thompson in Chicago. In the following years she worked and Others at Lou Donaldson, Willis Jackson, Etta Jones, Jack McDuff, Jimmy Scott, Sonny Stitt, Matthew Gee and Cecil Payne. Finally, the piano and the Hammond organ became their main instruments, as they their own style - developed - under the influence of " Wild" Bill Davis and Jimmy Smith. She then played in the Harlem nightclub Small's. In the early 1960s she joined a while as pianist and organist with Tiny Grimes Sherry's Club in Atlantic City; they then returned to Sonny Stitt's band as an organist back, with whom she performed at New York's Village Gate, among others. Then she starred in an organ combo with Booker Ervin and drummer Carmen Lacaria. To further develop her style, she and her husband George Coleman worked together in their house with trumpeter Booker Little. She was then active as a composer and arranger, wrote include "You Make Me Want to Dance" (interpreted by Joe Lee Wilson and Irene Reid ), " I Got A Claim on Fame" ( for Irene Reid ) and "There 's a Way" ( Hank Crawford ), as well as music for Bobbi Humphrey and Ernestine Anderson.

Coleman was then known by her album, which she in October 1963 for the label Impulse! recorded. Soul Sisters ( Impulse A-47 ) was established as a quartet with guitarist Grant Green, alto saxophonist Leo Wright and drummer Pola Roberts. A second album she recorded in 1971 with Ray Copeland, Dick Griffith, James Anderson, Earl Dunbar and Charlie Davis. Coleman also continued to work as a songwriter. In addition, Coleman collaborated on recordings by Leo Wright ( Soul Talk), Hank Crawford ( Groove Masters, 1990), Nat Simpson and Etta Jones as a musician and composer.

Coleman appeared in later years in the Monterrey Jazz Organ Festival with a tribute to Shirley Scott, also on the Billie Holiday Jazz Festival in Brooklyn, where she played with her son George Coleman Jr. and his quartet. 2008, her album Sweet Missy, on which she played with George Coleman, her son George Jr. and guitarist Eric Johnson.

Disco Graphical Notes

• Soul Sisters ( Verve, 1963)
• Sings and Swings Organ (1971 )
• Sweet Missy (2008)

Links / sources

• Biography
• Richard Cook & Brian Morton: The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings, 8th Edition, London, Penguin, 2006 ISBN 0-141-02327-9
• Curtjazz.wordpress.com

• Jazz Pianist
• Jazz bassist
• Jazz organist
• Composer (Jazz)
• Songwriter
• Arranger
• American musician
• Born in 1931
• Died in 2010
• Woman