James Frazier

James Frazier (1940 – March 10, 1985 ) was an American orchestral conductor. Frazier was awarded the Cantelli Award in 1969. This led him to conduct in several prestigious orchestras, including the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra and the Belarusian State Philharmonic. Frazier garnered acclaim from the orchestras of Detroit and Minsk. He also composed a musical, 12th Street: A Soul Opera, telling about life in his Detroit, and created the special "Soul and Symphony", which was broadcast on NBC, in the anthology series Special Treat. In the 1970s, Frazier was teaching in public schools in Long Island City. Later, he also conducted in South America.

In 1981 he was named conductor of the Bogota Symphony. He died in 1985 at the age of 44, after a year of ill health.