Donald Garrett

Donald Rafael Garrett (February 28, 1932, El Dorado, Arkansas - August 14, 1989, Champaign, Illinois) was an American jazz double-bassist and bass clarinetist.

Garrett was a multi-instrumentalist, and in addition to bass and clarinet could play other reed instruments and flute. had moved to Chicago by 1960, where he played regularly with Ira Sullivan from 1960 to 1962 and also recorded with Roland Kirk, Eddie Harris, and Muhal Richard Abrams's Experimental Band. He toured widely, playing in Seattle, California, and Paris in the 1960s and 1970s; among his associations were John Coltrane, Dewey Redman, Archie Shepp, Frank Wright, Jean-Luc Ponty, Oliver Johnson, and Noah Howard.

He began making his own bamboo flutes in the late 1960s, and married vocalist and cellist Kali Fasteau; together, they founded the Sea Ensemble in 1977. In the 1980s Garrett worked with Joseph Jarman, Famoudou Don Moye, Billy Bang, and Kahil El'Zabar.

Discography

With John Coltrane

With Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio

  • Sacred Love (1985)

With Kali Fasteau

  • Memoirs Of A Dream (2000)

With Dexter Gordon

  • Jive Fernando (1981)

With Eddie Harris

With Joseph Jarman

With The Jazz Doctors (Billy Bang, Frank Lowe, Dennis Charles)

  • Intensive Care (1983)

With Rahsaan Roland Kirk

With Dewey Redman

With The Sea Ensemble

  • We Move Together (1974)
  • After Nature (1977)
  • Manzara (1977)

With Paul Serrano

  • Blues Holiday (1961)

With Archie Shepp

With Ira Sullivan

References
  • "Donald Garrett", The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. 2nd edition, ed. Barry Kernfeld.
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