Gloria Coleman was an American musician.

Coleman played bass, piano then organ. As a jazz organist she released two albums. The first, Soul Sisters, by the Gloria Coleman Quartet was for the Impulse! Records

Impulse! Records

Impulse! Records was an American jazz record label, originally established in 1960 by producer Creed Taylor as a subsidiary of ABC-Paramount Records, based in New York City...

 label. It featured drummer Pola Roberts, Leo Wright

Leo Wright

Leo Wright was an American jazz musician who played alto saxophone, flute and clarinet...

 and Grant Green

Grant Green

Grant Green was a jazz guitarist and composer....

. It was produced by Rudy Van Gelder

Rudy Van Gelder

Rudy Van Gelder is an American recording engineer specializing in jazz.Often regarded as one of the most important recording engineers in music history, Van Gelder has recorded several thousand jazz sessions, including many widely recognized as classics, in a career spanning more than half a century...

. The second album featured Ray Copeland

Ray Copeland

Ray Copeland was a jazz trumpet player and teacher. Throughout his career he participated on many swing and hard bop dates, appearing on the well known Monk's Music by Thelonious Monk in 1956...

, Dick Griffith, James Anderson, Earl Dunbar and Charlie Davis.

Coleman wrote many songs for Bobbi Humphrey

Bobbi Humphrey

Barbara Ann Humphrey is an American jazz flautist and singer who plays fusion, jazz-funk and soul-jazz styles. Bobbi Humphrey has performed for audiences around the world....

 and Ernestine Anderson

Ernestine Anderson

Ernestine Anderson is an American jazz and blues singer. In a career spanning more than five decades, she has recorded over 30 albums. She was nominated four times for a Grammy Award. She has sung at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Monterey Jazz Festival , as well as at jazz festivals all...

, among others.

She died on February 10, 2010.

Discography

• 1963: Soul Sisters
  Soul Sisters
  Soul Sisters is an album by American jazz organist Gloria Coleman featuring Pola Roberts recorded in 1963 for the Impulse! label.-Reception:...
  
  (Impulse!)
• 1965: Sings and Swings Organ (Mainstream)
• 1990: with Hank Crawford
  Hank Crawford
  Bennie Ross "Hank" Crawford, Jr. was an American R&B, hard bop, jazz-funk, soul jazz alto saxophonist, arranger and songwriter...
  
  Groove master (Milestone)
• 1994: with Nat Simpkins Cookin' with some barbecue (Muse)
• 2007: Sweet Missy (Doodlin')