Personal Life
Bryson is the daughter of songwriter Connie Bryson and Dizzy Gillespie. Her husband was guitarist Coleman Mellett, who died in the February 2009 crash of Colgan Air Flight 3407. The couple had resided in East Brunswick Township, New Jersey.
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