Barbara Donald

Barbara Kay Donald (September 2, 1942 – March 23, 2013)[1] was an American jazz trumpeter and bandleader.

[2] Donald began playing trumpet aged eight in Minnesota, and her family relocated to California when she was a teenager.

[2] Beginning in the early 1960s, she began touring with both rhythm and blues and jazz ensembles throughout the US, and played with John Coltrane, Stanley Cowell, Richard Davis, Dexter Gordon, Roland Kirk, Prince Lasha, and Sonny Simmons.

Starting in 1978, she began recording with her own ensembles, while living in Washington, for the label Cadence Jazz.

[2] Her sidemen at one time included her son Zarak, Gary Peacock, Carter Jefferson and Rahn Burton.