J.D. Parran
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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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
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
Frequent collaborators
- The Band
- Anthony Davis (2)
- Various
- Anthony Braxton
- Don Byron
- John Lennon & Yoko Ono
- Jackie Lomax
- Paul Butterfield










