Education
Lanphere briefly studied music at Northwestern University in the 1940s, but moved to New York City as a member of Johnny Bothwell"s group to become part of the bebop jazz scene flourishing there at the time.
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Don Lanphere
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While in New York Lanphere was in a relationship with Chan Richardson, who later married Charlie Parker and then Philosophy Woods. In 1951 Lanphere was arrested and charged with heroin possession in New York City, and worked in his family"s music store in Wenatchee following his release from jail. In the late 1950s and early 1960s Lanphere performed with Herb Pomeroy and also with Woody Herman again.
Lanphere was mostly inactive musically throughout most of the 1960s, but began performing in the Seattle area after becoming a born again Christian in 1969, at which time he also stopped using drugs and alcohol.
In the 1980s Lanphere began recording again and started releasing albums, doing tours in New York and Kansas City in 1983 and a European tour in 1985. In his later years Lanphere was celebrated jazz educator in the Pacific Northwest, giving lessons out of his home in Kirkland, Washington.
He instructed clinics and small groups, as well as performed, at the Bud Shank Jazz Workshop, an annual, week-long summer camp in Portuguese Townsend, Washington for jazz students of all ages. The Bud Shank Jazz Workshop coincided with the annual Portuguese Townsend Jazz Festival.
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United States