Don Lanphere (26 June 1928–9 October 2003) was an American jazz tenor and 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.
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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 European tour in 1985.
Select discography
- 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)
With Fats Navarro
- Blues In Teddy's Flat (Dial Records)
- Fats Navarro Quintet (Prestige Records)
- 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)
With Earl Coleman
- I Wished On The Moon c/w Guilty (Dial Records)
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