Norma Carson

Despite her impressive jazz abilities, the trumpeter Norma Carson appears to have decided to place fairly lower in the music business. She was from the International Sweethearts of Tempo, an all-female music group including players such as for example Hadda Brooks and Vi Burnside that used a number of the slack still left by male music artists shouldering rifles in the next World War. Afterwards there will be a few high-profile performances like a Verve task entitled Felines Vs. Chicks where Carson is noticed in tandem with trumpet great Clark Terry. However Carson, who wedded tenor saxophone participant Bob Newman in the ’50s, may possess simply obtained discouraged with a recognized intimate bias in jazz. “I’ve by no means found it an edge to be always a woman,” she actually is quoted in the publication Stormy Weather, a brief history of female participation in swinging music. “If a trumpet participant is desired for employment and someone suggests me, they’ll state ‘What, a chick?’ and place me down without actually hearing me,” Carson says. “I don’t desire to be a woman musician. I simply desire to be a musician.” She freelanced therefore in the ’50s away of Philadelphia and was surviving in Clark, NJ, in the next 10 years when Leonard Feather considered her worth addition in his Encyclopedia of Jazz.