That's so interesting. Thanks for that! I have my own interpretation of that. Good on Norma. Love her!
---------- >From: Tom Churchill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 313 <[email protected]>, Cyclone Wehner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: (313) Norma Jean: Studio Playa? >Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 2:34 AM > >>> Really! >>> I am sure Laura told me she had played with all manner of people like that, >>> I can't recall all the names though. >>> I should have thought NJB wasn't that an unsual name... >> >> i think perhaps she was speaking figuratively when she said it >> wasnt the same norma jean bell. thats how i read it at least. > > OK, here's the intro from the Straight No Chaser interview... > > "The Detroit based owner of Pandamonium Records, the woman behind the 1995 > classic 'I'm The Baddest Bitch', the sexy sax on those Moodymann 12s, the > force (vocals, alto and soprano saxes, keys, drum programmer, producer) > behind the 10 track album 'Come Into My Room - that is without a doubt Norma > Jean Bell 2001. > > OK! So who is the sax toting, Afro sporting Norma Jean Bell who, in the mid > Seventies, played with rock guitarist Tommy Bolin (into Hendrix and > Coltrane/joined Deep Purple and OD'd at 25), was a member of Frank Zappa's > band and in the early Eighties climbed on board the Mothership and joined > the P Funk All Stars? This Norma Jean Bell is definitely deep, has clearly > lived the lide and sounds like she ought to be up there with the women who > were in Sly Stone's band or Bobbye Hall who played with Bill Withers... a > role model for the women who played with Prince and the sisters who today > make up Kelis' band. > > "That's not me," says Norma Jean over the phone from her home in > Westhamption, Michigan, a leafy suburb of Detroit. That's not what I'd been > told. I was totally thrown but pressed on. "I've been playing professionally > since the Eighties, but I've played music since I was 4... piano... everyone > in my family played piano. I took up the clarinet when I was 7... I probably > knew from the beginning that I was going to be a musician." > > > I guess she could be speaking figuratively but it sounds to me like they're > two different people... > > Cheers, > > Tom >
