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Raymond Allen Draper (1940–1982) was an American hard bop tuba player.

After attending the Manhattan School of Music in the mid-1950s, he played or recorded through the early 1970s with Jackie McLean
, Donald Byrd, John Coltrane
, Max Roach
, Don Cherry, Horace Tapscott, Archie Shepp
, Brother Jack McDuff, Dr. John and Howard Johnson
. He also recorded as a leader in the late 1950s.

Draper's drug addiction seriously disrupted his career in the late 1950s. At the time of his death in a robbery he was performing only rarely.

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