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{{Short description|American jazz saxophonist}}

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| Birth_namebirth_name = Donald Gale = Lou GareLanphere

| Aliasbirth_date = {{birth = date|1928|6|26}}

| Born birth_place = [[26Wenatchee, JuneWashington]], [[1928]]U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|2003|10|9|1928|6|26}}

| Died = [[9 October]] [[2003]]

| Origin death_place = [[WenatcheeRedmond, Washington]], U.S.

| Instrumentgenre = [[saxophone]], [[alto clarinet]], [[piccolo]], [[fluteJazz]]

| Voice_type occupation = Musician

| Genre instrument = [[Jazz]]Saxophone

| Occupation years_active = 1947–2003

| Label label = [[Hep Records<br>|Hep]], [[Origin Records|Origin]]

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| Associated_acts associated_acts = [[Fats Navarro]]

| Label = Hep Records<br>Origin Records

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}}'''Don Lanphere''' ([[26 June]] [[1928]]&ndash;[[9 October]] [[2003]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[jazz]] [[tenor saxophone|tenor]] and [[soprano saxophone|soprano saxophonist]] born in [[Wenatchee, Washington]], perhaps best-known for his 1940s and 1950s work and recordings with [[Fats Navarro]] (in 1948), [[Woody Herman]] (1949), [[Claude Thornhill]], [[Sonny Dunham]], [[Billy May]] and [[Charlie Barnet]], among others.

}}'''DonDonald Gale Lanphere''' ([[June 26, June]]1928<ref [[1928]]&ndash;[[9name="LarkinJazz"/> – October]] [[9, 2003]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[jazz]] [[tenor saxophone|tenor]] and [[soprano saxophone|soprano saxophonist]] born in [[Wenatchee, Washington]], perhaps best-known for his 1940s and 1950s work, and recordings with [[Fats Navarro]] (in 1948), [[Woody Herman]] (1949), [[Claude Thornhill]], [[Sonny Dunham]], [[Billy May]], and [[Charlie Barnet]], among others.

In [[1951]] he was arrested and charged with [[heroin]] possession, and worked his family's music store following his release from jail. In the late 1950s and early 1960s Lanphere performed with [[Herb Pomeroy]] and also with [[Woody Herman]] again. In the 1980s he began working again and started releasing albums, doing tours in [[New York]] and [[Kansas City]] in [[1983]] and a [[Europe|European]] tour in [[1985]].

==Biography==

==Select discography==

He was born in [[Wenatchee, Washington]], United States.<ref name="LarkinJazz">{{cite book|title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Guinness Who's Who of Jazz]]|editor=[[Colin Larkin (writer)|Colin Larkin]]|publisher=[[Guinness Publishing]]|date=1992|edition=First|isbn=0-85112-580-8|page=252}}</ref> Lanphere briefly studied music at [[Northwestern University]] in the 1940s,<ref name="LarkinJazz"/> but moved to New York City as a member of [[Johnny Bothwell]]'s group to become part of the [[bebop]] jazz scene. In New York, Lanphere was in a relationship with [[Chan Parker|Chan Richardson]], who later married [[Charlie Parker]] and then [[Phil Woods]].<ref name="jazztimes">Siders, Harvey. [http://jazztimes.com/articles/20018-don-lanphere "Don Lanphere"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306080750/http://jazztimes.com/articles/20018-don-lanphere |date=2016-03-06 }}, ''[[JazzTimes]]'', March 2002. (accessed 4 June 2015)</ref>

In 1951, Lanphere was arrested and charged with heroin possession in New York City.<ref name="LarkinJazz"/> After his release from jail, he worked in his family's music store in Wenatchee, where he met Midge Hess. They married in 1953.<ref name="jazztimes" /> In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Lanphere performed with [[Herb Pomeroy]] and with Woody Herman.<ref name="LarkinJazz"/>

*''Don Lanphere'' (Hep Records)

*''Don Lanphere & [[Larry Coryell]]'' (Hep Records)

*''Sextet Go Aagain'' (Hep Records)

*''Don Loves Midge'' (Hep Records)

*''Get Happy'' (Origin Records)

*''Home At Last'' (Origin Records)

*''Like A Bird'' (Origin Records)

*''Where Do You Start?'' (Origin Records)

*''Remember Why'' w/ ''New Stories'' (Origin Records)

*''Year 'Round Christmas'' (Origin Records)

*''Where Do You Start?'' (Origin Records)

Lanphere was mostly inactive musically throughout most of the 1960s,<ref name="LarkinJazz"/> but began performing in the Seattle area after becoming a [[Born again (Christianity)|born again Christian]] in 1969, at which time he also stopped using drugs and alcohol.<ref name="jazztimes" /> In the 1980s, Lanphere began recording again and started releasing albums, doing tours in New York City and Kansas City in 1983 and a European tour in 1985.

In his later years, Lanphere was a jazz educator in the Pacific Northwest, giving lessons out of his home in [[Kirkland, Washington]]. He instructed clinics and small groups, as well as performed, at the Bud Shank Jazz Workshop, an annual, week-long summer camp in [[Port Townsend, Washington]] for jazz students of all ages. The Bud Shank Jazz Workshop coincided with the annual Port Townsend Jazz Festival.

He died in [[Redmond, Washington]], of [[hepatitis C]] at the age of 75.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://jazztimes.com/archives/don-lanphere-dies/|title=Don Lanphere Dies|first=Russell|last=Carlson|website=Jazztimes.com|date=25 April 2019 |access-date=July 29, 2021}}</ref>

==Discography==

* ''From Out of Nowhere'' ([[Hep Records|Hep]], 1982)

* ''[[Into Somewhere]]'' (Hep, 1983)

* ''Don Loves Midge'' (Hep, Records1984)

* ''[[Stop (Don Lanphere & [[Larry Coryellalbum)|Stop]]'' (Hep, Records1986)

* ''Don Lanphere & Larry Coryell'' (Hep, Records1990)

* ''Lopin'' (Hep, 1992)

* ''Jazz Worship/A Closer Walk'' (DGL, 1993)

* ''Get Happy'' ([[Origin Records|Origin]], 1996)

* ''Don Still Loves Midge'' (Hep, 1997)

* ''Year 'Round Christmas'' (Origin, Records1999)

* ''Like Aa Bird'' (Origin, Records2000)

* ''Home Atat Last'' (Origin, Records2001)

* ''Where Do You Start?'' (Origin, 2003)<ref name="AM discog">{{cite web|title=Don Lanphere {{!}} Album Discography {{!}} AllMusic|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/don-lanphere-mn0000185128/discography|website=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=December 7, 2016}}</ref>

'''With [[Fats Navarro]]'''

* ''Blues Inin Teddy's Flat'' ([[Dial Records (1946)|Dial]])

* ''Fats Navarro Quintet'' ([[Prestige Records|Prestige]])

*''25 Years Of Prestige'' ''various artists'' ([[Prestige Records]])

'''With the ''Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra'''''

* ''SRJO Live'' (Origin Records)

* ''Sacred Music of [[Duke Ellington]]'' (Origin Records)

==References==

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==External links==

'''With the ''Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra'''''

* [http://www.jazzhouse.org/gone/lastpost2.php3?edit=1066843510 Obituary]

*''SRJO Live'' (Origin Records)

*''Sacred Music of [[Duke Ellington]]'' (Origin Records)

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'''With ''Earl Coleman'''''

*''I Wished On The Moon c/w Guilty'' ([[Dial Records]])

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