Boyd Raeburn

Boyd Albert Raeburn (October 27, 1913 – August 2, 1966) was an American jazz bandleader and bass saxophonist.

Career He was born in Faith, South Dakota, United States. For the rest of the decade, he worked in dance bands, sometimes leading them.

In the next decade, the group passed through swing before becoming identified with the bop school. Raeburn left music in the mid-1950s.

Raeburn died from a heart attack in 1966 in Lafayette, Louisiana, aged 52. Boyd Raeburn's first wife was Lorraine Anderson, with whom he had one child; the union ended in divorce. His son with Powell, Bruce Boyd Raeburn of New Orleans, was the curator of the William Ransom Hogan Archive of New Orleans Jazz at the Tulane University in New Orleans until December 2017.

Discography Boyd Meets Stravinski (Savoy, 1955) Man with the Horns (Savoy, 1955) Dance Spectacular (Columbia, 1956) Fraternity Rush (Columbia, 1957) On the Air Vol. 1 (Hep, 1974) Rhythms by Raeburn (Aircheck, 1977) Experiments in Big Band Jazz 1945 (Musicraft, 1980)