She was the only female trumpeter to perform with Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker[2] and was a member of the International Sweethearts of Rhythm.

In 1946 she became a member of the International Sweethearts of Rhythm, an all-female jazz band, earned her union card and dropped out of school.

[2] The Queens of Swing performed on television in 1951 as The Hollywood Sepia Tones, in a half-hour variety program on KTLA.

[7] Bryant recorded her first and only album, Gal with a Horn, in 1957 before returning to the life of a traveling musician.

In 1989 Bryant became the first female jazz musician to tour in the Soviet Union after writing to Mikhail Gorbachev.

[1] After a heart attack and quadruple bypass surgery in 1996, Bryant was forced to give up the trumpet but she continued to sing.

[2] In an interview with JazzTimes, Bryant said, "Nobody ever told me, 'You can't play the trumpet, you're a girl.'

[1] Bryant died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on August 25, 2019, after suffering a heart attack at home.