Don Rader
Don Rader c. 2005
Don Rader c. 2005
Background information
Birth nameDonald Arthur Rader'
Born (1935-10-21) October 21, 1935
Rochester, Pennsylvania
GenresJazz
Occupation(s)Musician
Instrument(s)Trumpet
Years active1950s–present

Donald Arthur Rader (born October 21, 1935) is an American jazz trumpeter.

Career

Rader began playing trumpet at age five and was taught by his father.[1] He studied at Sam Houston State Teachers College and served in the Navy in the 1950s as a member of the band, then played and arranged for Woody Herman (1959–61), Maynard Ferguson (1961–63), and Count Basie (1963–64), Louie Bellson, Harry James, Terry Gibbs, Frank Foster, Henry Mancini, Les Brown (1967–72), and Stan Kenton.[1]

He toured with Della Reese, Sarah Vaughn, Andy Williams, Percy Faith, Diana Ross, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lewis (intermittently for 28 years), and Bob Hope (intermittently for 28 years with five tours of wartime Vietnam).[2]

He assembled a quintet in Los Angeles in 1972 and continued working with West Coast jazz musicians, including Lanny Morgan, Lew Tabackin, and Toshiko Akiyoshi.[1] He recorded as a leader and worked in music education for many years, including in Australia in the 1980s.[1]

Discography

  • Polluted Tears (DRM, 1973)
  • Now (PBR International, 1976)
  • Don Rader (Now, 1978)
  • Wallflower (Discovery, 1978)
  • Anemone (Jet Danger, 1980)
  • A Foreign Affair (Bellaphon, 1990)
  • Off the Beaten Track (Tall Poppies, 1998)
  • Odyssey (2006)

As sideman

With Count Basie

With Maynard Ferguson

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Yanow, Scott. "Don Rader". AllMusic. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
  2. "The Australian Jazz Agency - Don Rader". australianjazzagency.com.au. Retrieved 2016-01-08.
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