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Art Blakey Complete Album/CD List-Leader and Sideman

1944

Billy EcKstine and His Orchestra  (Audio Lab AL 1549)
Mr. B / Billy EcKstine  (Deluxe to Ember FA 2010)

1945
You Call It Madness / Billy EcKstine  (National to Regent MG 6058)  

1946
The First Big Bop Band / Billy EcKstine  (National [J] SOPL 54SY) Boppin' the Blues / Miles Davis  (Black Lion [E] BLP 60102)  

1947

Genius of Modern Music, Vol. 1 / Thelonious Monk  (Blue Note BLP 1510)
Genius of Modern Music, Vol. 2 / Thelonious Monk  (Blue Note BLP 1511)
More Genius of Thelonious Monk  (Blue Note [J] BNJ 61011)
Long Tall Dexter / Dexter Gordon  (Savoy Jazz SJL 2211)

Dexter Rides Again / Dexter Gordon  (Savoy MG 12130)
New Sounds / Max Roach, Art Blakey  (Blue Note BLP 5010)

New Sounds / Art Blakey, James Moody  (Blue Note CDP 7 84436 2)

 

1948

Vibes Are on / Thelonious Monk Quartet  (Chazzer 2002)

25 Years Blue Note - Anniversary Album / v.a.  (Blue Note BLP 1001)

The Beginning and End of Bop / James Moody, George Wallington  (Blue Note BLP 6503)

 

1949

The Bop Boys / v.a.  (Savoy)

 

1950

Kaleidoscope / Sonny Stitt  (Prestige LP 7077)

Stitt's Bits / Sonny Stitt  (Prestige LP 7133)

Birdland Days / Miles Davis Featuring Stan Getz  (Fresh Sound [Sp] FSR 124)

Miles Davis Sextet Featuring Stan Getz  (Ozone 1)

Blues Up and Down, Vol. 1 / Gene Ammons  (Prestige LP 7823)

Charlie Parker's All-Stars, 1950  (Alamac QSR 2430)

The Persuasively Coherent / Miles Davis  (Alto 701)

Miles Davis, Vol. 1  (Session 101)

Miles Davis All-Stars and Gil Evans  (Beppo [E] BEP 502)

One Night in Birdland / Charlie Parker  (Columbia JG 34808)

Charlie Parker - Fats Navarro - Bud Powell  (Ozone 4)

Charlie Parker - Bud Powell - Fats Navarro  (Ozone 9)

Miles Davis, Vol. 2  (Session 102)

More Unissued, Vol. 2 / Charlie Parker  (Royal Jazz [D] RJD 506)

 

1951

Birks' Works / Dizzy Gillespie  (Duke [It] D 1019)

Trane's First Ride, 1951 / Dizzy Gillespie  (Oberon 5100)

Queen of the Juke Box ``Live'', 1948-1955 / Dinah Washington  (Baldwin Street Music BJH 310)

Trane's First Ride, 1951, Vol. 2 / Dizzy Gillespie  (Broadcast Tributes 0009)

Milt Jackson and the Thelonious Monk Quintet  (Blue Note BLP 1509)

Thelonious Monk and Milt Jackson  (Blue Note [J] BNJ 61012)

Zoot Sims Quartets  (Prestige LP 7026)

Miles Davis - Eddie `Lockjaw' Davis - Art Blakey  (Ozone 7)

Dig / Miles Davis  (Prestige LP 7012)

Conception / v.a.  (Prestige LP 7013)

Trombone by Three / J.J. Johnson, Kai Winding, Bennie Green  (Prestige LP 7023)

Sonny Rollins with the Modern Jazz Quartet, Art Blakey, Kenny Drew  (Prestige LP 7029)

 

1952

The Brothers / Stan Getz, Zoot Sims  (Prestige LP 7022)

Horace Silver and Spotlight on Drums: Art Blakey - Sabu  (Blue Note BLP 1520)

The Trio Sides / Horace Silver  (Blue Note BN-LA 474-H2)

King Pleasure Sings - Annie Ross Sings  (Prestige LP 7128)

Thelonious Monk Trio  (Prestige LP 7027)

Lou Donaldson Quartet, Quintet, Sextet  (Blue Note BLP 1537)

 

1953

Mr. Clarinet / Buddy DeFranco  (Verve MGV 8159)

Introducing the Kenny Drew Trio  (Blue Note [J] BNJ 71002)

Miles Davis, Vol. 1  (Blue Note BLP 1501)

Miles Davis, Vol. 2  (Blue Note BLP 1502)

Jazz Tones / Buddy DeFranco  (Verve MGV 8158)

Clifford Brown Memorial Album  (Blue Note BLP 1526)

Brownie Eyes / Clifford Brown  (Blue Note BN-LA 267-G)

Clifford Brown More Memorable Tracks  (Blue Note [J] BNJ 61001)

Kenny Dorham, 1953, 1956, 1964  (Royal Jazz [D] RJD 515)

Art Blakey  (Session 110)

Autobiography in Jazz / Jazz Workshop  (Debut DEB 198)

Introducing Paul Bley  (Debut DLP 7)

Burning in U.S.A., 53-55 / Earl Bud Powell, Vol. 2  (Mythic Sound MS 6002 1)

 

1954

A Night at Birdland with Art Blakey Quintet, Vol. 1  (Blue Note BLP 1521)

A Night at Birdland with Art Blakey Quintet, Vol. 2  (Blue Note BLP 1522)

Live Messengers  (Blue Note BN-LA 473-J2)

A Night at Birdland with Art Blakey Quintet, Vol. 3  (Blue Note [J] BNJ 61002)

Blue Haze / Miles Davis  (Prestige LP 7054)

Blakey Featuring Art Blakey  (EmArcy MG 26030)

New Faces - New Sounds / Elmo Hope Quintet, Vol. 2  (Blue Note BLP 5044)

Thelonious Monk Quintets  (Prestige LP 7053)

Moving Out / Sonny Rollins  (Prestige LP 7058)

The Other Side Blue Note 1500 Series / v.a.  (Blue Note [J] BNJ 61008/10)

Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins  (Prestige LP 7075)

Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers  (Blue Note BLP 1518)

 

1955

Clark Terry  (EmArcy MG 36007)

Bud Powell, '57  (Verve MGV 8185)

Bud Powell's Moods  (Verve MGV 8154)

The Genius of Bud Powell, Vol. 2  (Verve VE2 2526)

Trio and Solo / Randy Weston  (Riverside RLP 227)

Afro-Cuban / Kenny Dorham  (Blue Note BLP 1535)

Julius Watkins Sextet, Vol. 2  (Blue Note BLP 5064)

Hank Mobley Quartet  (Blue Note BLP 5066)

The Third World / Herbie Nichols  (Blue Note BN-LA 485-H2)

Duke Jordan  (Signal S 1202)

Nica's Tempo / Gigi Gryce  (Savoy MG 12137)

The Jazz Messengers at the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 1  (Blue Note BLP 1507)

The Jazz Messengers at the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 2  (Blue Note BLP 1508)

The Jazz Messengers at the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 3  (Blue Note [J] BNJ 61007)

Jazz in Transition / v.a.  (Transition TRLP 30)

Byrd's Eye View / Donald Byrd  (Transition TRLP 4)

 

1956

The Unique / Thelonious Monk  (Riverside RLP 209)

The Jazz Messengers  (Columbia CL 897)

Originally  (Columbia FC 38036)

The Cool Voice of Rita Reys with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers  (Philips BO 8006L)

Metronome All-Stars / v.a.  (Clef MGC 743)

Stan Getz Special, Vol. 1  (Raretone FC 5010)

Hard Bop  (Columbia CL 1040)

Drum Suite  (Columbia CL 1002)

 

1957

Plenty, Plenty Soul / Milt Jackson  (Atlantic LP 1269)

Hank Mobley and His All-Stars  (Blue Note BLP 1544)

Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, The Elmo Hope Quintet Featuring Harold Land  (Pacific Jazz PJ 15)

Ritual  (Pacific Jazz PJM 402)

A Date with Jimmy Smith, Vol. 1  (Blue Note BLP 1547)

A Date with Jimmy Smith, Vol. 2  (Blue Note BLP 1548)

The Sounds of Jimmy Smith  (Blue Note BLP 1556)

Jimmy Smith at the Organ, Vol. 1  (Blue Note BLP 1551)

Jimmy Smith at the Organ, Vol. 2  (Blue Note BLP 1552)

The Singles / Jimmy Smith  (Blue Note [J] K18P 9280)

Blowing in from Chicago / Cliff Jordan, John Gilmore  (Blue Note BLP 1549)

Orgy in Rhythm, Vol. 1  (Blue Note BLP 1554)

Orgy in Rhythm, Vol. 2  (Blue Note BLP 1555)

Hank Mobley Quintet  (Blue Note BLP 1550)

Senor Blues / Horace Silver Rare Tracks  (Blue Note [J] BNJ 61005)

A Midnight Session with the Jazz Messengers  (Elektra EKL 120)

A Midnight Session with the Jazz Messengers  (Savoy Jazz ZDC 4409)

Selections from Lerner and Loewe's  (Vik LAK 1103)

Tough!  (Cadet LP 4049)

1957 Second Edition  (RCA Bluebird 07863-66661 2)

Theory of Art  (RCA Bluebird 6126-1-RB)

A Blowing Session / Johnny Griffin, Vol. 2  (Blue Note BLP 1559)

A Blowing Session / Johnny Griffin, Vol. 2  (Blue Note CDP 7243 4 99009 2)

A Night in Tunisia  (Vik LAX 1115)

Sonny Rollins, Vol. 2  (Blue Note BLP 1558)

Cu-bop / Art Blakey and His Jazz Messengers with Sabu and a Bongo  (Jubilee JLP 1049)

Jazz Connection / Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk  (Atlantic LP 1278)

The Complete Riverside Recordings / Thelonious Monk  (Riverside [J] VIJ 5102/23)

Blues for Tomorrow / v.a.  (Riverside RLP 243)

Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane  (Jazzland JLP 46)

Monk's Music / Thelonious Monk  (Riverside RLP 242)

Sessions, Live / Count Basie, Joe Williams, Art Blakey  (Calliope CAL 2008)

Hard Drive  (Bethlehem BCP 6023)

Bethlehem Years / John Coltrane  (Bethlehem 20 50012)

Art Blakey's Big Band  (Bethlehem BCP 6027)

In Europe / Sonny Rollins  (Unique Jazz UJ 029)

 

1958

House Party / Jimmy Smith  (Blue Note BLP 4002)

The Sermon! / Jimmy Smith  (Blue Note BLP 4011)

Confirmation / Jimmy Smith  (Blue Note LT 992)

Somethin' Else / Cannonball Adderley  (Blue Note BLP 1595)

Alison's Uncle, Autumn Leaves / Cannonball Adderley  (Blue Note [J] BNJ 27001)

Minor Move / Tina Brooks  (Blue Note [J] GXF 3072)

Blue Trails - The Rare Tracks / v.a.  (Blue Note [J] TOCJ 1601)

Cool Blues / Jimmy Smith  (Blue Note LT 1054)

New Bottle Old Wine / Gil Evans  (World Pacific WP 1246)

The Sound of Big Band Jazz in Hi-Fi / Gil Evans  (World Pacific WP 1257)

Blue Lights, Vol. 1 / Kenny Burrell  (Blue Note BLP 1596)

Blue Lights, Vol. 2 / Kenny Burrell  (Blue Note BLP 1597)

Swingin' / Kenny Burrell  (Blue Note [J] GXF 3070)

Things Are Getting Better / Cannonball Adderley, Milt Jackson  (Fantasy OJC 032)

Cannonball Adderley and Eight Giants  (Milestone M 47001)

Things Are Getting Better / Cannonball Adderley, Milt Jackson  (Riverside RLP 286)

Moanin'  (Blue Note BLP 4003)

The Other Side Blue Note 4000 Series / v.a.  (Blue Note [J] TOCJ 5941/44)

Drums Around the Corner  (Blue Note [J] TOCJ 66073)

Holiday for Skins, Vol. 1  (Blue Note BLP 4004)

Holiday for Skins, Vol. 2  (Blue Note BLP 4005)

Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers Live in the 50's  (Jazz Band [E] EBCD 2128 2)

1958 - Paris Olympia  (Fontana [F] 608.202ML)

1958 / Olympia Concert  (Mercuty [F] 6444700)

Des Femmes Disparaissent  (Fontana [F] 660.224MR)

Au Club St. Germain, Vol. 1  (RCA [F] 430.043)

Au Club St. Germain, Vol. 2  (RCA [F] 430.044)

Au Club St. Germain, Vol. 3  (RCA [F] 430.045)

 

1959

Out of the Blue / Blue Mitchell  (Riverside RLP 293)

New Blue Horns / v.a.  (Riverside RLP 294)

My Conception / Sonny Clark  (Blue Note [J] GXF 3056)

At the Jazz Corner of the World, Vol. 1  (Blue Note BLP 4015)

At the Jazz Corner of the World, Vol. 2  (Blue Note BLP 4016)

Les Liaisons Dangereuses  (Fontana [F] 680.203)

Les Liaisons Dangereuses  (Fontana [J] 28JD 10169)

On View at the Five Spot Cafe / Kenny Burrell  (Blue Note BLP 4021)

Groovin' with Golson / Benny Golson  (New Jazz LP 8220)

Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers Live in Copenhagen, 1959  (Royal Jazz [D] RJD 516)

Africaine  (Blue Note LT 1088)

Are You Real?  (Moon [It] MCD 071 2)

Au Theatre des Champs-Elysees  (RCA [F] 430.054)

Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers Live in Stockholm, 1959  (Dragon [Sw] DRCD 182)

Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers Live in Berlin, 1959/1962  (Jazz Up [It] JU 321)

Paris Jam Session  (Fontana [F] 680.207L)

 

1960

Alternate Takes of Here's Lee Morgan  (Vee Jay [J] FHCY 1002)

Here's Lee Morgan  (Vee Jay VJS 3007)

Soul Station / Hank Mobley  (Blue Note BLP 4031)

The Big Beat  (Blue Note BLP 4029)

Drums Ablaze  (Alto 720)

The Electric Sticks of Buddy Rich  (Alto 721)

Gretsch Drum Night at Birdland / v.a.  (Roulette R 52049)

Drum Night at Birdland / v.a.  (Vogue [F] 600107)

Lee-Way / Lee Morgan  (Blue Note BLP 4034)

Hooray for Art Blakey, Vol. 1  (Session 116)

More Birdland Sessions / Lee Morgan  (Fresh Sound [Sp] FSCD 1029)

A Night in Tunisia  (Blue Note BLP 4049)

Like Someone in Love  (Blue Note BLP 4245)

The Complete Blue Note Recordings of Art Blakey's 1960 Jazz Messengers  (Mosaic MD6 141)

Soul Time / Bobby Timmons  (Riverside RLP 334)

Meet You at the Jazz Corner of the World, Vol. 1  (Blue Note BLP 4054)

Meet You at the Jazz Corner of the World, Vol. 2  (Blue Note BLP 4055)

Second Genesis / Wayne Shorter  (Vee Jay VJS 3057)

The Complete Vee Jay Lee Morgan - Wayne Shorter Sessions  (Mosaic MD6 202)

Expoobident / Lee Morgan  (Vee Jay VJS 3015)

Roll Call / Hank Mobley  (Blue Note BLP 4058)

Roll Call / Hank Mobley  (Blue Note CDP 7 46823 2)

Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers Live in Stockholm, 1960  (Dragon [Sw] DRLP 137)

Lausanne, 1960, Pt. 1  (TCB 02022)

Lausanne, 1960, Pt. 2  (TCB 02062)

 

1961

A Day with Art Blakey, 1961  (Baybridge [J] 30CP 23/24)

Tokyo, 1961  (Somethin'else [J] CJ32 5503)

Pisces  (Blue Note [J] GXF 3060)

The Freedom Rider  (Blue Note BLP 4156)

Roots and Herbs  (Blue Note BST 84347)

The Witch Doctor  (Blue Note BLP 4258)

Featuring Wayne Shorter  (Europe 1 [F] 17-10373/74)

Art Blakey and Jazz Messengers [A la Mode]  (Impulse A 7)

Mosaic  (Blue Note BLP 4090)

Buhaina's Delight  (Blue Note BLP 4104)

 

1962

Nigeria / Grant Green  (Blue Note LT 1032)

The Complete Blue Note Recordings of Grant Green with Sonny Clark  (Mosaic MR5 133)

Congo Lament [unissued] / Ike Quebec  (Blue Note BLP 4103)

Congo Lament / Ike Quebec  (Blue Note LT 1089)

The African Beat  (Blue Note BLP 4097)

3 Blind Mice, Vol. 1  (Blue Note CDP 7 84451 2)

3 Blind Mice  (United Artists UAJ 14002)

Hooray for Art Blakey, Vol. 2  (Session 117)

Caravan  (Riverside RLP 438)

Europa Jazz / Art Blakey, Freddie Hubbard, Horace Silver, Max Roach  (Europa Jazz [It] EJ 1035)

 

1963

Ugetsu  (Riverside RLP 464)

A Jazz Message  (Impulse A 45)

Golden Boy  (Colpix CP 478)

1964

Free for All  (Blue Note BLP 4170)

Kyoto  (Riverside RLP 493)

Indestructible  (Blue Note BLP 4193)

Tom Cat / Lee Morgan  (Blue Note LT 1058)

'S Make It  (Limelight LM 82001)

Jazz of the Sixties, Vol. 2 - Blues Bag / Buddy DeFranco  (Vee Jay VJS 2506)

 

1965

Soulfinger  (Limelight LM 82018)

 

1966

Buttercorn Lady  (Limelight LM 82034)

Hold on, I'm Coming  (Limelight LM 82038)

 

1968

Live!  (Trip TLP 5034)

 

1969

Mellow Blues  (Moon [It] MCD 032 2)

Tour de Force / Stars of Bop  (Moon [It] MCD 006 2)

 

1970

Jazz Messengers, '70  (Catalyst CAT 7902)

 

1971

Bop Fathers, Vol. 1 / Giants of Jazz  (Lotus ORL 8252)

Giants of Jazz in Berlin, 1971  (EmArcy [J] EJD 3018)

Giants of Jazz  (Concord Jazz GW 3004)

The Giants of Jazz  (Atlantic SD2 905)

The London Collection, Vol. 2 / Thelonious Monk  (Black Lion [E] BLP 60116)

The London Collection, Vol. 3 / Thelonious Monk  (Black Lion [J] TKCB 30083)

For Minors Only  (West Wind [G] WW 2065)

 

1972

Child's Dance  (Prestige P 10047)

Newport in New York, '72 - The Jam Sessions, Vol. 3/4 / v.a.  (Cobblestone 9026 2)

Art's Break!  (Lotus ORL 8250)

 

1973

Buhaina  (Prestige P 10067)

Anthenagin  (Prestige P 10076)

 

1976

Backgammon  (Roulette SR 5003)

Jazz - Na Koncertnom Podiju, Vol. 2 / v.a.  (Zugoton LSY 61417)

It Happened in Pescara, 1969-1989 / v.a.  (Philology [It] W100/101)

 

1977

Gypsy Folk Tales  (Roulette SR 5008)

Heat Wave  (MJ [J] MECJ 30010)

In My Prime, Vol. 1  (Timeless [H] SJP 114)

 

1978

In This Korner  (Concord Jazz CJ 68)

In My Prime, Vol. 2  (Timeless [H] SJP 118)

Reflections in Blue  (Timeless [H] SJP 128)

 

1979

A Night in Tunisia  (Philips 6385943)

One by One  (Palcoscenico Pal-15005)

 

1980

Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers  (Repertoire [G] RR 4904 WZ)

Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers Live at Montreux and Northsea  (Timeless [H] SJP 150)

Gotham City / Dexter Gordon  (Columbia JC 36853)

Featuring Wynton Marsalis, '80, Vol. 1 / Art Blakey, Wynton Marsalis  (Break Time BRJ 4039)

Featuring Wynton Marsalis, '80, Vol. 2 / Art Blakey, Wynton Marsalis  (Break Time BRJ 4040)

First Recordings / Wynton Marsalis  (Kingdom Jazz GATE 7013)

 

1981

Art Blakey in Sweden / Art Blakey, Wynton Marsalis  (Amigo [Sw] AMPL 839)

Album of the Year / Art Blakey, Wynton Marsalis  (Timeless [H] SJP 155)

Straight Ahead / Art Blakey, Wynton Marsalis  (Concord Jazz CJ 168)

Aurex Jazz Festival, '81 All-Stars Jam Session / v.a.  (East World Jazz [J] EWJ 80208)

Aurex Jazz Festival, '81 Live Special / v.a.  (East World Jazz [J] EWJ 80254)

Killer Joe / George Kawaguchi, Art Blakey  (Union Jazz [J] 30CH 39)

 

1982

Keystone 3  (Concord Jazz CJ 196)

Art Blakey and the All-Star Jazz Messengers  (RCA [F] PL 45365)

Oh, By the Way  (Timeless [H] SJP 165)

 

1983

Caravan  (Baystate [J] RJL 8071)

Aurex Jazz Festival, '83  (East World Jazz [J] EWJ 80270)

 

1984

A Groovy Night with the Magnificent Six  (Baystate [J] R32J 1053)

New York Scene  (Concord Jazz CJ 256)

 

1985

One Night with Blue Note, Vol. 3 / v.a.  (Blue Note BT 85115)

Art Blakey + The Jazz Messengers Live at Ronnie Scott's, London  (Apollon/Jazz Road [J] BY32 5009)

On the New Tradition  (Baystate [J] RJL 8105)

Blue Night  (Timeless [H] SJP 217)

Farewell  (Paddle Wheel [J] KICJ 41/42)

Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers Live at Sweet Basil  (Paddle Wheel [J] K28P 6357)

Hard Champion  (Paddle Wheel [J] K32Y 6209)

Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers Live at Kimball's  (Concord Jazz CJ 307)

New Year's Eve at Sweet Basil  (Paddle Wheel [J] 240E 6831)

Dr. Jeckyle  (Paddle Wheel [J] K32Y 6183)

 

1986

Art Blakey and Jazz Messengers  (Arco 3 ARC 107/IMS 3 ARC 107)

Feeling Good  (Delos D/CD 4007)

 

1987

Blue Moon  (Zounds CD 2720010)

 

1988

Not Yet  (Soul Note [It] 121 105 2)

Standards  (Paddle Wheel [J] 292E 6026)

70 Years Anniversary / Special Edition, Vol. 1  (Alfa Jazz [J] 32R2 26)

I Get a Kick Out of Bu  (Soul Note [It] 121 155 2)

 

1989

The Art of Jazz  (In+Out IOR 77028 2)

 

1990

Chippin' in / The Birth of New Funky  (Alfa Jazz [J] ALCR 36)

The Last Drum Solo  (Alfa Jazz [J] ALCR 76)

Bluesiana Triangle / Art Blakey, Dr. John, David Newman  (Windham Hill Jazz WD 0125)

One for All  (A&M 75021 5329 2)

 

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