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J.D. Parran
J.D. Parran is credited on 613 releases across 48 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1972–2024 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
613
Pressings credited
48
Albums
6
Decades active
147
In collections
Biography
J. D. Parran is an American multi-woodwind player, educator, and composer specializing in jazz and free improvisation. He plays the soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, and bass saxophone, as well as the E-flat clarinet, alto clarinet, bass clarinet, contra-alto clarinet, piccolo, alto flute, bamboo flute, Native American flute, bamboo saxophone, and nagaswaram.
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Credited work
613 releases · 48 albums · active 1972–2024
- Performance · 1,000
- Other credits · 69
- Production · 1
Studios: The Hit Factory · Record Plant, N.Y.C. · Bearsville Studios · Academy Of Music
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Double Fantasy
1980

The Original Musiquarium I
1982

Rock Of Ages (The Band In Concert)
1972

Set The Twilight Reeling
1996

The Capitol Albums 1968-1977
2015

John Lennon Signature Box
2010

Better Days
1973

Funkcronomicon
1995

Lovers
2016

Easy Come Easy Go
2008

Galaxy Dust
1981

Don Byron Plays The Music Of Mickey Katz
1993

Requiem For What's-His-Name
1992
Frequent collaborators
- The Band
- Anthony Davis (2)
- Various
- Anthony Braxton
- Don Byron
- John Lennon & Yoko Ono
- Jackie Lomax
- Paul Butterfield
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