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Don Kirkpatrick

Don Kirkpatrick is credited on 113 releases across 53 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1964–2017 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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113

Pressings credited

53

Albums

6

Decades active

33

In collections

Biography

Don Kirkpatrick (June 17, 1905 – May 13, 1956) was an American jazz pianist and arranger. He was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States. Kirkpatrick worked intermittently with Chick Webb between 1927-1937 and with Don Redman from 1933-1937; it is for these associations that he is best known. Aside from this, he worked with Harry White, Elmer Snowden, Zutty Singleton, and Mezz Mezzrow, and worked as a freelance arranger after his time with Webb and Redman. Kirkpatrick also arranged for the bands of Benny Goodman, Count Basie, and Cootie Williams. After the swing era, Kirkpatrick played with Bunk Johnson (1947), Sidney Bechet (1951), Wilbur De Paris (1952–55), and Doc Cheatham (1955). He never led his own recording session. In 1956 he died at age 50, of complications from pneumonia.

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113 releases · 53 albums · active 1964–2017

  • Performance · 179
  • Other credits · 4

Studios: Trax Recording Studio · Garden Rake Studio · Larrabee Sound Studios · LCD Studio Inverigo

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