{{Short description|American trumpeter and musician}} [[File:Barbara Donald.png|thumb|Donald in 1970 from Simmons' ''Burning Spirits'' album]] '''Barbara Kay Donald''' (September 2, 1942 – March 23, 2013)<ref name="Obit">{{Cite news|url=https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/olympia-jazz-trumpet-legend-barbara-donald-dies/|title=Olympia jazz-trumpet legend Barbara Donald dies|date=March 30, 2013|author=Paul de Barros|newspaper=The Seattle Times|access-date=August 24, 2021}}</ref> was an American jazz trumpeter and bandleader.
==Life and career== She was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.<ref name="LarkinGE">{{cite book|title=The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music|editor=Colin Larkin|publisher=Guinness Publishing|date=1992|edition=First|isbn=0-85112-939-0|page=716}}</ref> Donald began playing trumpet aged eight in Minnesota, and her family relocated to California when she was a teenager.<ref name="LarkinGE"/> 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.<ref name="LarkinGE"/> In 1964, Donald and Simmons married;<ref name="LarkinGE"/> one of their children, Zarak Simmons, became a percussionist. Starting in 1978, she began recording with her own ensembles, while living in Washington, for the label Cadence Jazz.<ref name="LarkinGE"/> Her sidemen at one time included her son Zarak, Gary Peacock, Carter Jefferson and Rahn Burton.<ref name="LarkinGE"/>
After experiencing a series of strokes rendering her unable to actively play live, Donald lived in an assisted care facility in Olympia, Washington, from 1998 until her death in 2013.<ref name="Obit"/>
==Discography== '''As leader''' * ''Olympia Live'' (Cadence Jazz, 1982) * ''The Past and Tomorrows'' (Cadence Jazz, 1983)
'''With Sonny Simmons''' * ''Staying on the Watch'' (ESP-Disk, 1966) * ''Music from the Spheres'' (ESP-Disk, 1968) * ''Manhattan Egos'' (Arhoolie, 1969) * ''Rumasuma'' (Contemporary, 1970) * ''Burning Spirits'' (Contemporary, 1971) * ''Reincarnation'' (Arhoolie, 2015)
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Bibliography== *"Barbara Donald". ''The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz''. Second edition, ed. Barry Kernfeld. {{ISBN|9780333632314}}
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