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Don Payne
real name Donald Ray Payne
Don Payne is credited on 656 releases across 100 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1958–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
656
Credits
100
Albums
8
Decades active
242
In collections
Biography
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American jazz bass player, composer and arranger, born January 7, 1933 in Wellington, Texas.
Passed away February 25, 2017.
Bio from Discogs
Credited work
656 releases · 100 albums · active 1958–2025
- Performance · 813
- Other credits · 2
Studios: 914 Sound Studios · Sound Ideas Studios · Contemporary's Studio · Allegro Sound Studios
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
The Shape Of Jazz To Come
1959
New Skin For The Old Ceremony
1974
Verities & Balderdash
1974
Gather Me
1971
Greatest Stories - Live
1976
Between The Lines
1975
Jazz Samba Encore!
1963
Album III
1972
Something Else!!!!
1958
Second Album
1973
Somethin' Else Again
1967
Genesis Of Genius: The Contemporary Albums
2022
Stars
1974
Stoneground Words
1972
Portrait Gallery
1975
The Complete Columbia Albums Collection
2011
Quazar
1978
The Gold Medal Collection
1988
Show Me To The Stage
1977
Tropea
1975
Ms.45 - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
2014
The Very Best Of Judy Collins
2001
Best Of Bossa Nova
1987
In Touch
1976
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