Barbara Donald Jazz Trumpeter Bandleader and Pioneer
Interview conducted 44 years ago in SF---00:00 Despite playing with DexterGordon, John Coltrane, Roland Kirk and Sonny Simmons still unknown.00:48 Interview begins--why more women don't pick the instrument up and obstacles when they do. 01:59 Playing an instrument is a gift it has nothing to do with who or what you are 02:53 "Everything is separating. That's why I call my group unity. We could all learn from each other." Things have changed now but at the time she was breaking new ground for others to follow. Unfortunately around 20 years later in 1998 her career was cut short by a series of strokes. Unable to play live, she spent her last years in an assisted living facility in Olympia Washington.
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