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Don Raffell
Don Raffell is credited on 94 releases across 36 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1954–2017 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
94
Pressings credited
36
Albums
7
Decades active
17
In collections
Biography
Don Raffell (born Donald Howard Raffell; Apr 26, 1919 – Mar 24, 2003) was an American saxophonist, woodwind doubler (multireedist), studio musician and educator. Raffell recorded on hundreds of records, movies, and T.V shows dating from the 1940s all the way through the 1990s. His career as a studio musician was long and stylistically diverse having started in the big band era and playing all the way up through rock n' roll and other modern pop era acts. He had a long time close professional association with arranger and conductor Nelson Riddle.
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Credited work
94 releases · 36 albums · active 1954–2017
- Performance · 85
- Other credits · 38
Studios: Pacific Jazz Studios · T.T.G. Studios · Decca Studios · A&M Studios
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Louis Armstrong
- Artie Shaw And His Orchestra
- The 17 Piece Orchestra Of Gerald Wilson
- The Singers Unlimited
- Gerald Wilson Big Band
- Patty Weaver
- Leith Stevens
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