Don Stratton

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Don Stratton (born December 9, 1928 in Woburn or Reading , Massachusetts , † April 24, 2016 in Augusta , Maine ) was an American jazz trumpeter and university teacher.

Life

Don Stratton worked in New York and Boston in the 1940s and 1950s in the bands of Nat Pierce , Tex Beneke , Claude Thornhill , Tony Pastor and Elliot Lawrence , and he also performed with Charlie Parker , Gerry Mulligan and Phil Woods on. In the field of jazz he was involved in 29 recording sessions between 1949 and 2011. also with Steve Lacy , Whitey Mitchell , Phil Sunkel ( Jazz Cioncerto Grosso , 1958) and Mort Herbert 1956. Under his own name he took the Creed Taylor prod. in 1956 for ABC-Paramount . Album Modern Jazz with Dixieland Roots on, with Dave McKenna , Dick Hafer and Phil Sunkel. In later years he taught at the Manhattan School of Music , where he created the first jazz education program, and at the University of Maine at Augusta .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary accessed on January 31, 2020
  2. ^ Biographical information at Invisible Music Records
  3. ↑ Tom Lord Jazz Discography
  4. ^ Andrew Clark: Riffs and Choruses: A New Jazz Anthology , p. 215
personal data
SURNAME Stratton, Don
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz trumpeter and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Woburn , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 2016
Place of death Augusta , Maine