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EPISODE 78: Best of 2021. . .Jeanie Bryson: Life is Short; Music is Forever
The unacknowledged daughter of Dizzy Gillespie, Jeanie Bryson who made a name for herself globally as a jazz singer, passed away suddenly last month. I'm revisiting our 2021 conversation, where she speaks bluntly about her father, the outsized influence of her songwriting mother, Connie Bryson, how a herd of cows were perhaps her favorite audience and her last big project, a documentary about her late husband, Colman "Coley" Mellet, who died in a tragic airplane crash.
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