Whitney Balliett
(April 17, 1926-February 1, 2007)
The Sound Of Surprise (1959)
Part One: 1954-1956
- Pandemonium Pays Off (Norman Granz)
- Artistry In Limbo (Stan Kenton)
- The Bibulous Aunt (jazz writing)
Part Two: 1957
- Progress and Prudence (Cecil Taylor)
- The Duke At Play (Duke Ellington, Johnny Richards)
- Pastoral (Jimmy Giuffre)
- Hot (Roy Eldridge, Jimmy Rushing)
- Avaunt (Teddy Charles)
- Colossus
- Djinni (Art Tatum, George Russell, Dave Brubeck)
- Mammoth (Newport Jazz Festival 1957)
- The M.J.Q. (The Modern Jazz Quartet, Art Blakey, Miles Davis)
- The Olden Days (Great South Bay Jazz Festival 1957)
- Cootie (Cootie Williams, Mose Allison, Sonny Rollins)
- Hot Night, Little Light (Jazz at the Philharmonic)
- The Three Louis (Louis Armstrong)
- Stress and Strain (Horace Silver, Hal McKusick, Bobby Hackett)
- Mingus Breaks Through (Charles Mingus)
- The Resurgence Of Red Allen (Henry Red Allen, Bob Brookmeyer, Matt Dennis)
- Hot and Cold
Part Three: 1958
- Epitaph (Miles Davis, Duke Ellington)
- Melee (Dody In Dixieland concert)
- Vic Dickenson and The P.J.Q. (Prestige Jazz Quartet)
- Monk (Thelonious Monk)
- This Whiskey Is Lovely (Jelly Rolly Morton)
- Close, But No Cigar
- Out Of Focus
- Chameleon (Miles Davis, Vic Dickenson, Buck Clayton, Ruby Braff)
- The M.J.Q. (continued) (The Modern Jazz Quartet)
- Ben Webster (Jimmy Giuffre)
- Big Sid (Sidney Catlett)
- Mammoth (continued) (Newport Jazz Festival 1958)
- The Olden Days (continued) (Great South Bay Jazz Festival 1958)
- One Step Forward, Two Steps Back (Brandeis Modern Jazz Concert)
- M. Bechet (Sidney Bechet)
- Morpheus At Bay
- The Great Things
- The Best Medicine (Big Bill Broonzy)
- An Evening In Brooklyn
- Morello The Mighty (Joe Morello)
- The Devil and The Deep Blue Sea
- The Secrets Of The Past
Part Four: 1959
- Mingus Among The Unicorns (Charles Mingus)
- The Last Of The Mohicans (Erroll Garner)
- P.W. Russell, Poet (Pee Wee Russell)
- Roach, Blakey & P.J. Jones, Inc. (Max Roach, Art Blakey, Philly Joe Jones)
Dinosaurs In The Morning (1962)
Part One: 1957-1959
- Daddy-O (Kenneth Rexroth)
- The Great Gillespie (Dizzy Gillespie)
- A Celebration For Monk (Thelonious Monk)
- Bittersweet
- Toshiko (Toshiko Akiyoshi)
- The President (Lester Young)
- Bean (Coleman Hawkins)
- Buck Clayton and Emmett Berry
- Humph (Humphrey Lyttelton)
- Garner Unveiled (Erroll Garner)
- Dinosaurs In The Morning (Spirituals To Swing concert)
Part Two: 1960
- Jo Jones, dms.
- Catching Trout (Thelonious Monk)
- Something Else (Baby Laurence)
- Miss Holiday (Billie Holiday)
- R.I.P. (Memphis Slim)
- Gypsy
- Historic (Gunther Schuller, Ornette Coleman)
- Mingus (Charles Mingus)
- The Ragtime Game (Joseph Lamb)
- David and Goliath (Cliff Walk Manor Festival)
- Walpurgis Night (Buddy Rich)
Part Three: 1961
- The Rabbit Returns (Johnny Hodges)
- Made In France
- Yes Yes Yes Yes (Ida Cox)
- Sonny Greer
- Young Werther (Miles Davis)
- Trove (Ernest Smith)
- The Call (Marion Williams)
- The Other Cheek (Bix Beiderbecke)
- The Love Bug Will Bite You
- Joe Thomas
- Abstract (Cecil Taylor, Ornette Coleman)
- Sabbatical (Sonny Rollins)
- The How-Long Blues
- Cheers For Red Allen (Henry Red Allen)
Part Four: 1962
- Problem (The Modern Jazz Quartet)
- Masterly Milquetoast (Duke Ellington)
- Mechanic (Fletcher Henderson)
- Slow Sleeper (Jack Teagarden)
- Third-Stream Music (Gunther Schuller)
Such Sweet Thunder: Forty-Nine Pieces On Jazz (1966)
1962
- New Fig
- Non-Spectrum (D.C. International Jazz Festival)
- The Inheritors (Newport Jazz Festival 1962)
- Pure (Benny Carter)
- Even His Feet Look Sad (Pee Wee Russell)
1963
- His Lordship (Ornette Coleman)
- Anti-Music (Jimmy Giuffre)
- The Street (52nd Street, Hickory House)
- His Master’s Voice (Stan Getz)
- Hear Today, Gone Tomorrow (Orchestra U.S.A.)
- Supreme Tickler (James P. Johnson)
- The Well (Thelonious Monk)
- The Ladies (Mildred Bailey, Billie Holiday)
- Evans vs. Evans (Bill Evans)
- Herd After Herd (Woody Herman)
- A Burning Desire (Lou Black)
- Uncharted (Orchestra U.S.A.)
- Fortieth (Duke Ellington)
1964
- Apple Bobbing (Louis Bellson)
- Trial Run (Lucky Thompson)
- Triumph (Earl Hines)
- Interregnum (Art Farmer; Miles Davis)
- Out Here (Mary Lou Williams)
- Sweet Tedium and Crippled Crabs (Hunter College blues concert)
- Drummin’ Man (Gene Krupa)
- Mingus Regained (Charles Mingus)
- Slow Motion (Bud Powell)
- Basie (Count Basie)
- A Creative Thing (Jeremy Steig)
- Chicago, Chicago (Austin High Gang)
- Ground Hog (Village Gate tap dance exhibition)
1965
- Sunshine Always Opens Out (Earl Hines)
- The New Thing (Ornette Coleman, New York Art Quartet, Giuseppi Logan, Cecil Taylor)
- Headwater (Coleman Hawkins)
- The Lessons of the Masters (Hunter College piano concert)
- Northern Lights (Charles Mingus, Earl Hines, Coleman Hawkins)
- Zeus (Roy Eldridge)
- Bird (Charlie Parker)
- The Fat and the Lean (Gil Evans, Gary McFarland)
- Frankie Ex Machina (Newport Jazz Festival 1965)
- Perfecto (Bobby Hackett)
- Evans to Tate to… (Buddy Tate)
- The Road to Big Sur (Monterey Jazz Festival 1965)
- Zutty (Zutty Singleton)
- Dauntless (Dickie Wells)
1966
- Hide and Seek (Louis Armstrong)
- Mecca, La. (New Orleans trip)
- The Blues is a Slow Story (Henry Red Allen)
Super-Drummer: A Profile Of Buddy Rich (
- Super-Drummer (Buddy Rich)
Ecstasy At The Onion (1971)
Notes: Newport, Monterey, New York
- Newport 1966
- Monterey 1966
- Newport 1967
- Newport 1968
- New York 1969
- Newport 1969
- New York 1970
- Newport 1970
- Newport 1971
- New York 1971
The Duke 1967-1970
- Small Band
- Which Ellington Are You?
- Return Engagement
- The Duke’s Party
- A Day With The Duke
Reviews 1967-1971
- The Burning Bush (Spirituals To Swing 1967 concert)
- All Work and No Play (Ornette Coleman)
- Maestro
- Coltrane (John Coltrane)
- Small Print (Benny Morton)
- One-Man Band (Art Tatum)
- Miss Bessie (Bessie Smith)
People 1968-1971
- It’s Detestable When You Live It (Ray Charles)
- A Walk To The Park (Elvin Jones)
- Like A Family (The Modern Jazz Quartet) [contents list as Like A Marriage]
- Ecstasy At The Onion
- The Music Is More Important (Red Norvo)
- The Human Sound (Bobby Short)
- All Dressed Up and No Place To Go (Mobile Jazz Festival)
- Night Clubs
- Mingus At Peace (Charles Mingus)
Alec Wilder and His Friends (1974)
- The Key of D Is Daffodil Yellow (Marian McPartland)
- A Queenly Aura (Mabel Mercer)
- In the Wilderness (Marie Marcus)
- More Ingredients (Bobby Hackett)
- A Quality That Lets You In (Tony Bennett)
- Aesthetic Vitamins (Ruby Braff)
- Their Own Gravity (Bob and Ray – Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding)
- Hanging Out with Blossom Dearie
- The President of the Derrière-Garde (Alec Wilder)
New York Notes: A Journal Of Jazz, 1972-1975 (1976)
[This book does not use essay titles, only dates. Those titles shown are taken from Collected Works.]
1972
- 1/4/72
- 1/7/72
- Finis (Bucky Pizzarelli, George Barnes, Mahalia Jackson)
- 1/28/72 (Mahalia Jackson)
- 2/4/72 (Charles Mingus)
- Teddy and the M.J.Q. (Teddy Wilson, The Modern Jazz Quartet)
- New Coming (Sonny Rollins, Earl Hines, Jimmy Rushing)
- A Sweet, Thin, Easygoing Person (Charlie Christian)
- New Digs (Newport Jazz Festival 1972)
- Big Joe (Big Joe Turner)
- Jeru (Gerry Mulligan)
- 11/9/72 (Bobby Hackett and Earl Hines)
- 11/15/72 (Jimmy Raney)
- 11/17/72 (Elmer Snowden)
- 11/29/72 (Jazz on TV)
- 12/10/72 (Lady Sings the Blues movie)
- 12/16/72 (Warren Chiasson; Marlene VerPlanck)
1973
- Beautiful (Ellis Larkins)
- 1/10/73 (Johnny Mercer)
- 1/17/73 (Stan Getz)
- 1/22/73 (Woody Allen)
- 1/26/73 (Ray Charles)
- 2/2/73 (Dave McKenna)
- 2/4/73 (Tap dance exhibition)
- 2/24/73 (Bessie Smith book review)
- The J.C.O.A. (Jazz Composers Orchestra, Charlie Haden, Carla Bley)
- Eubie (Eubie Blake, Scott Joplin)
- 4/18/73 (Brooks Kerr)
- 4/20/73 (Bobby Hackett)
- Duo, Nellie, and Marian (Jim Hall, Ron Carter, Nellie Lutcher, Marian McPartland)
- God (Art Tatum)
- Newport 1973
- Cinderella Man (Artie Shaw)
- Big Ben (Ben Webster)
- 10/4/73 (Cleo Laine)
- From Morton to Waller to James P. (Dick Wellstood)
- Gene (Gene Krupa)
- One Man’s Meat (Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz set)
- 12/1/73 (Tommy Flanagan)
- 12/12/73 (Zoot Sims)
- Entrepreneur (Eddie Condon)
1974
- Gallic View (Columbia Aimez-Vous Le Jazz set)
- Son (Brooks Kerr)
- True Blue (Mary Lou Williams)
- Repertory (National Jazz Ensemble, New York Jazz Repertory Company)
- Editor (Count Basie)
- Dancer (Baby Laurence)
- 4/29/74 (New England Conservatory Orchestra, New York Jazz Repertory Company)
- 4/30/74 (Buddy Rich)
- 5/2/74 (McCoy Tyner)
- 5/10/74 (Jimmy Rowles)
- Bix (Bix Beiderbecke)
- 5/14/74 (Joe Venuti)
- R.I.P. (Duke Ellington)
- 6/28/74 (Newport 1974)
- 6/29/74 (Newport 1974)
- 6/30/74 (Newport 1974)
- 7/1/74 (Newport 1974)
- 7/2/74 (Newport 1974)
- 7/3/74 (Newport 1974)
- 7/4/74 (Newport 1974)
- 7/5/74 (Newport 1974)
- 7/6/74 (Newport 1974)
- 7/7/74 (Newport 1974)
- 8/17/74 (Charlie Parker)
- Youth (Harry Carney)
- Still Jumping (Sonny Greer)
- 11/15/74 (New York Jazz Repertory Company)
- Farewell (The Modern Jazz Quartet)
- Choice (Anita Ellis)
1975
- Lady (Mabel Mercer)
- More Repertory (New York Jazz Repertory Company, National Jazz Ensemble)
- 3/20/75 (Helen Humes)
- 4/1/75 (Count Basie)
- Three Pianists (Walter Norris, Cecil Taylor, Art Tatum)
- 5/24/75 (New York Jazz Repertory Company)
- 6/25/75 (Harry Edison)
- Newport 1975
- Zutty (Zutty Singleton)
- 11/4/75 (Erroll Garner)
Improvising (1977)
- The Blues Is a Slow Story (Henry Red Allen)
- For the Comfort of the People (Joe King Oliver)
- Sunshine Always Opens Out (Earl Hines)
- Out Here Again (Mary Lou Williams)
- Even His Feet Look Sad (Pee Wee Russell)
- Back from Valhalla (Jess Stacy)
- The Music Is More Important (Red Norvo)
- Big Sid (Sidney Catlett)
- Super-Drummer (Buddy Rich)
- Like a Family (The Modern Jazz Quartet)
- You Must Start Well and End Well (Stephane Grappelli)
- The Answer Is Yes (Jim Hall)
- The Westchester Kids (Bob Wilber)
American Singers (1979) (* added only in 1988 revision)
- American Singers (Teddi King, Mary Mayo, Barbara Lea)
- Let It Be Classy (Alberta Hunter)
- Majesty (Joe Turner)
- Just a Singer (Helen Humes)
- It’s Detestable When You Live It (Ray Charles)
- A Quality That Lets You In (Tony Bennett)
- Moonbeam Moscowitz (Sylvia Syms)
- According to Where I Go (Hugh Shannon)
- Absolutely Pure (Blossom Dearie)
- The Human Sound (Bobby Short)
- A Queenly Aura (Mabel Mercer)
- Coming out Again (Anita Ellis)
- (Mel Torme) *
- (Julie Wilson) *
- (Julius LaRosa) *
- (Nellie Lutcher) *
- (Margaret Whiting) *
- (Alec Wilder) *
- (Carol Sloane) *
- (Dave Frishberg) *
- (Peggy Lee) *
- (George Shearing) *
- (Betty Carter) *
- (Cleo Brown) *
Night Creature: A Journal Of Jazz, 1975-1980 (1981)
[This book does not use essay titles, only dates. Those titles shown are taken from Collected Works.]
1975
- Halie (Mahalia Jackson)
- Five Important Recordings (The Modern Jazz Quartet; Milt Hinton; Lester Young; Jim Hall; Anthony Braxton)
- 10/22/75 (Scott Joplin and Treemonisha )
1976
- Cool (Jazz Talk; American Dance Band Discography)
- Unique (Eddie Costa)
-
1/25/76 (Louis Armstrong – Chicago Style TV film)
- Jimmy Rowles
- Gone (Ray Nance)
- (Ruby Braff and George Barnes)
- Unsung (Charlie Shavers; Leo Watson)
-
3/13/76 (Jazz repertory groups)
- Brother Ray (Ray Charles)
- Bags (Milt Jackson)
- The Murphia (Bobby Hackett)
- Mr. Carter (Benny Carter)
- Folly (Eddie Sauter and Bill Finegan)
- Big Little Band (John Kirby)
- Newport 1976
- Pure Melody (Jimmy Blanton; Michael Moore)
- 9/26/76 (Revolutionary Ensemble)
- Front Runner (Zoot Sims)
-
10/21/76 (Marian McPartland)
-
10/27/76 (Amazing Grace – America in Song TV film; Ray Charles & Cleo Laine: Porgy & Bess)
- Dexter (Dexter Gordon)
- Pops (Louis Armstrong)
-
11/26/76 (Dizzy Gillespie Smithsonian compilation)
1977
- Erroll (Erroll Garner)
- Heretic (Jimmy Knepper)
- Poet, Singer, Dancer (Steve Lacy)
-
2/11/77 (Bobby Short on Nat King Cole)
-
2/14/77 (Young Louis Armstrong (RCA))
-
Anthony Braxton
- Bach Lunch (George Shearing)
- 3/6/77 (Mabel Mercer and Bobby Short)
-
3/16/77 (Jimmy McPartland)
-
3/25/77 (Dave McKenna)
-
Mary vs. Cecil (Mary Lou Williams and Cecil Taylor)
- Wizard (Albert Murray)
- Tatumesque (Adam Makowicz)
- The A.A.C.M.
- Newport 1977
- Reissues (Lionel Hampton; Red Norvo; Fletcher Henderson; Don Byas)
- Breeding (John Hammond)
- Umbrellas of Sound (Herbie Nichols)
-
12/28/77 (Recorded Anthology of American Music (New World))
1978
-
1/3/78 (Benny Goodman)
-
1/18/78 (Benny Goodman 40th anniversary concert)
- Selfishness Is Essential (Duke Ellington)
- Ladies (Joanne Brackeen; Dorothy Donegan)
- Fat Girl (Fats Navarro; Woody Shaw)
- South Lawn (White House jazz concert)
- Newport 1978
-
7/1/78 (Lionel Hampton 50th anniversary concert)
- Neo (Scott Hamilton)
- Tommy (Tommy Flanagan)
- Dance (Duke Ellington)
1979
- His Work (Fred Astaire)
- Oil and Water (Jim Hall and Bob Brookmeyer)
- A Burning Desire (Adolphus “Doc” Cheatham)
- A Giocometti Sound (Pee Wee Russell)
-
2/26/79 (Dardanelle)
- Small Label (Milt Gabler)
- Soul Soap (Keith Jarrett)
- Late Mingus (Charles Mingus)
- Hodges, Again (Johnny Hodges)
-
6/22/79 (Newport: Al Haig/Dizzy Gillespie)6/23/79 (Newport: Betty Carter)6/24/79 (Newport: Black Broadway revue)6/25/79 (Newport: David Chertok film presentation/Roland Hanna)6/26/79 (Newport: Muhal Richard Abrams/Count Basie/Swing Street plaques)6/27/79 (Newport: Hoagy Carmichael/Barry Harris)6/28/79 (Newport: Patti Bown)6/29/79 (Newport: Lester Bowie/Art Ensemble of Chicago/World Saxophone Quartet)6/30/79 (Newport: Torme/Mulligan American song concert)
- Five Important Recordings (Jimmy Rowles; Billie Holiday; Red Norvo; Bob Brookmeyer; Air)
-
10/29/79 (Dizzy Gillespie: To Be Or Not To Bop book/James Lincoln Collier The Making Of Jazz book)
1980
-
4/7/80 (Nellie Lutcher)
- Newport 1980
Jelly Roll, Jabbo and Fats: Nineteen Portraits in Jazz (1983)
- Panassié, Delaunay et Cie (Hughes Panassié and Charles Delaunay)
- Ferdinand La Menthe (Jelly Roll Morton)
- Le Grand Bechet (Sidney Bechet)
- New York Drummers (Tommy Benford, Freddie Moore, Sonny Greer)
- Starting at the Top (Jabbo Smith)
- Light Everywhere (Adolphous “Doc” Cheatham)
- Fats (Fats Waller)
- Easier Than Working (Dick Wellstood)
- Three Tones (Vic Dickenson)
- Pres (Lester Young)
- Einfühlung (Ellis Larkins)
- Being a Genius (Erroll Garner)
- Super Chops (Dave McKenna)
- Good, Careful Melody (Michael Moore)
- Ten Levels (Lee Konitz)
- Ornette (Ornette Coleman)
Barney, Bradley and Max: Sixteen Portraits in Jazz (1989)
- Fan (Jean Bach)
- Jazz Clubs (Max Gordon, Barney Josephson, Bradley Cunningham)
- In the Wilderness (Marie Marcus)
- Bright Unison Clarinets (Claude Thornhill)
- Chanting with Buster (Jimmy Rowles)
- Whatever Happened to Mel Powell?
- Bob’s Your Uncle (George Shearing)
- Herr Professor (Walter Norris)
- Goodbye Oompah (Harvey Phillips)
- Fortieth (Benny Goodman)
- Aesthetic Vitamins (Ruby Braff)
- Bird (Charlie Parker)
- A Difficult Instrument (Buddy DeFranco) *
- First and Last (Louis Bellson)
Goodbyes and Other Messages: A Journal of Jazz, 1981-1990 (1991)
1981
- The New Red Norvo Trio
- Down the River (Kool Jazz Festival)
- New Bird (Charlie Parker)
- Duke Ellington
- Reunion (The Modern Jazz Quartet)
1982
- Monk (Thelonious Monk)
- Sonny Greer
- Dizzy Gillespie and Bill Coleman
- Good Tidings (Old and New Dreams)
- Teddy Wilson
- King Again (Frank Sinatra)
- Bunny Berigan
- Otis Ferguson
- Making Do (Kool Jazz Festival)
1983
- Old Wine, New Bottles (Warren Vaché)
- Earl Hines and Peck Kelley
- Whiz Kid (Wynton Marsalis)
- “The Sound of Jazz”
- Fauntleroy and the Brute (Ben Webster)
1984
- Danger Dancing All Around (Louis Armstrong)
- Michel Petrucciani and Paul Whiteman
- Like a Lilt (Count Basie)
- Morton Monologue (Jelly Roll Morton)
- The Blue Notes (Mosaic reissues)
- Vic (Vic Dickenson)
1985
- Classic Jazz Quartet; David Murray’s Octet; Zoot Sims and Al Cohn
- The Mulligan Sextet and Paul Gonsalves (Gerry Mulligan)
- Cootie Williams and Jo Jones
- Romantic Agony (Bill Evans)
- Peakèd (Kool Jazz Festival 1985)
- Mingus at Work (Charles Mingus)
1986
- Basie Slips By (Count Basie)
- American Jazz Orchestra and The Leaders
- The Big Bands
- B.G.–and Big Sid (Benny Goodman; Sidney Catlett)
- From Joplin to Goodman, and Slightly Beyond (92nd Street Y festival)
1987
- The Keynotes
- Traps, the Drum Wonder (Buddy Rich)
- John Hammond and Dick Wellstood
- Ellington Slips By (Duke Ellington)
1988
- Cruising (S.S. Norway festival)
- Jimmy Knepper, Peggy, and the Duke (Peggy Lee; Duke Ellington)
- Stéphane Grappelli and Warne Marsh
1989
- The Swing Era
- Max (Max Gordon)
- Mixed Blessings (Grove’s) (New Grove Dictionary Of Jazz; The Reception of Jazz in America)
- Mingus Regained (Charles Mingus)
- A Hostile Land (Roy Eldridge)
- Goodbye, Michael (Michael Moore and Gene Bertoncini)
- Miles (Miles Davis)
1990
- Max and Kit (Max Roach and Kit Fitzgerald)
- Keepers Of the Flame (Tommy Flanagan and Erroll Garner)
- Imagining Music (Jazz Fiction)
- Giants (Sarah Vaughan and Art Tatum)
- The Commodores (Milt Gabler)
American Musicians: Fifty-Six Portraits In Jazz (1986) (* added only in 1996 revision titled American Musicians II: Seventy-Two Portraits In Jazz)
- Panassié, Delaunay et Cie (Hughes Panassié and Charles Delaunay)
- For the Comfort of the People (Joe “King” Oliver)
- Ferdinand La Menthe (Jelly Roll Morton)
- Le Grand Bechet (Sidney Bechet)
- The Blues Is a Slow Story (Henry “Red” Allen)
- New York Drummers (Tommy Benford, Freddie Moore, Sonny Greer)
- Starting at the Top (Jabbo Smith)
- Light Everywhere (Adolphous “Doc” Cheatham)
- Fats (Fats Waller)
- In the Wilderness (Marie Marcus) *
- Sunshine Always Opens Out (Earl Hines)
- Out Here Again (Mary Lou Williams)
- Coleman Hawkins
- A Good One-Two (Jimmy McPartland)
- Davy Tough
- Even His Feet Look Sad (Pee Wee Russell)
- More Ingredients (Bobby Hackett)
- Hodes’ Blues (Art Hodes)
- Benny (Benny Goodman) *
- Back from Valhalla (Jess Stacy)
- Whatever Happened to Mel Powell? *
- Big T (Jack Teagarden)
- Three Tones (Vic Dickenson)
- Little Jazz (Roy Eldridge)
- Big Sid (Sidney Catlett)
- The Music Is More Important (Red Norvo)
- Art Tatum
- Wonder Woman (Dorothy Donegan) *
- You Must Start Well and You Must End Well (Stéphane Grappelli and Django Reinhardt)
- Demi-centennial (Joe Bushkin)
- Super-drummer (Buddy Rich)
- First and Last (Louis Bellson) *
- Pres (Lester Young)
- Bird (Charlie Parker) *
- Dizzy (Dizzy Gillespie) *
- A Difficult Instrument (Buddy DeFranco) *
- Chanting with Buster (Jimmy Rowles) *
- Like a Family (Modern Jazz Quartet)
- Einfühlung (Ellis Larkins)
- Being a Genius (Erroll Garner)
- Bob’s Your Uncle (George Shearing) *
- Zoot and Louise (Zoot Sims)
- The Key of D Is Daffodil Yellow (Marian McPartland)
- Super Chops (Dave McKenna)
- The Westchester Kids (Bob Wilber)
- Easier Than Working (Dick Wellstood)
- Aesthetic Vitamins (Ruby Braff) *
- A Day with the Duke (Duke Ellington)
- Mingus at Peace (Charles Mingus)
- A Trombone Mouth (Jimmy Knepper) *
- Joe Wilder
- The Answer Is Yes (Jim Hall)
- An Insouciant Sound (Paul Desmond) *
- Here and Abroad (Art Farmer)
- Herr Professor (Walter Norris) *
- Poet (Tommy Flanagan)
- A Walk to the Park (Elvin Jones)
- Bright Unison Clarinets (Claude Thornhill) *
- Ten Levels (Lee Konitz)
- A True Improviser (Warne Marsh)
- Good, Careful Melody (Michael Moore)
- A Decent Life (Gene Bertoncini)
- Ornette (Ornette Coleman)
- Cecil (Cecil Taylor)
Collected Works (2002)
The Fifties
1954
- First Festival ***
- Pandemonium Pays Off (Norman Granz)
1955
- Artistry in Limbo (Stan Kenton)
1956
- The Bibulous Aunt (jazz writing)
1957
- Progress and Prudence (Cecil Taylor)
- The Duke at Play (Duke Ellington, Johnny Richards)
- Pastoral (Jimmy Giuffre)
- Hot (Roy Eldridge, Jimmy Rushing)
- Avant (Teddy Charles)
- Djinni (Art Tatum, George Russell, Dave Brubeck)
- Mammoth (Newport Jazz Festival 1957)
- The M.J.Q. (The Modern Jazz Quartet, Art Blakey, Miles Davis)
- The Olden Days (Great South Bay Jazz Festival 1957)
- Cootie (Cootie Williams, Mose Allison, Sonny Rollins)
- Hot Night, Little Light (Jazz At the Philharmonic)
- The Three Louis (Louis Armstrong)
- Stress and Strain (Horace Silver, Hal McKusick, Bobby Hackett)
- Mingus Breaks Through (Charles Mingus)
- The Resurgence of Red Allen (Henry Red Allen, Bob Brookmeyer, Matt Dennis)
1958
- Epitaph (Miles Davis, Duke Ellington)
- Melee (Dody in Dixieland concert)
- Vic Dickenson and the P.J.Q. (Prestige Jazz Quartet)
- Monk (Thelonious Monk)
- This Whiskey Is Lovely (Jelly Rolly Morton)
- Chameleon (Miles Davis, Vic Dickenson, Buck Clayton, Ruby Braff)
- The M.J.Q. (continued) (The Modern Jazz Quartet)
- Ben Webster (Jimmy Giuffre)
- Big Sid (Sidney Catlett)
- Mammoth (continued) (Newport Jazz Festival 1958)
- The Olden Days (continued) (Great South Bay Jazz Festival 1958)
- One Step Forward, Two Steps Back (Brandeis Modern Jazz Concert)
- M. Bechet (Sidney Bechet)
- The Best Medicine (Big Bill Broonzy)
1959
- Mingus Among the Unicorns (Charles Mingus)
- The Last of the Mohicans (Erroll Garner)
- P.W. Russell, Poet (Pee Wee Russell)
- Roach, Blakey & P.J. Jones, Inc. (Max Roach, Art Blakey, Philly Joe Jones)
- Daddy-O (Kenneth Rexroth)
- The Great Gillespie (Dizzy Gillespie)
- Toshiko (Toshiko Akiyoshi)
- Bean (Coleman Hawkins)
- Buck Clayton and Emmett Berry
- Humph (Humphrey Lyttelton)
- Dinosaurs in the Morning (Spirituals To Swing concert)
- Introducing Ornette (Ornette Coleman) ***
The Sixties
1960
- Jo Jones, dms.
- Catching Trout (Thelonious Monk)
- Something Else (Baby Laurence)
- Miss Holiday (Billie Holiday)
- R.I.P. (Memphis Slim)
- Historic (Gunther Schuller, Ornette Coleman)
- Mingus (Charles Mingus)
- The Ragtime Game (Joseph Lamb)
- David and Goliath (Cliff Walk Manor Festival)
- Walpurgis Night (Buddy Rich)
1961
- The Rabbit Returns (Johnny Hodges)
- Yes Yes Yes Yes (Ida Cox)
- Sonny Greer
- Young Werther (Miles Davis)
- Trove (Ernest Smith)
- The Call (Marion Williams)
- The Other Cheek (Bix Beiderbecke)
- Joe Thomas
- Abstract (Cecil Taylor, Ornette Coleman)
- Sabbatical (Sonny Rollins)
- Cheers for Red Allen (Henry Red Allen)
1962
- Problem (The Modern Jazz Quartet)
- Masterly Milquetoast (Duke Ellington)
- Mechanic (Fletcher Henderson)
- Slow Sleeper (Jack Teagarden)
- Third-Stream Music (Gunther Schuller)
- Non-Spectrum (D.C. International Jazz Festival)
- The Inheritors (Newport Jazz Festival 1962)
- Pure (Benny Carter)
1963
- The Street (52nd Street, Hickory House)
- His Master’s Voice (Stan Getz)
- Hear Today, Gone Tomorrow (Orchestra U.S.A.)
- Supreme Tickler (James P. Johnson)
- The Well (Thelonious Monk)
- The Ladies (Mildred Bailey, Billie Holiday)
- Evans vs. Evans (Bill Evans)
- Herd after Herd (Woody Herman)
- A Burning Desire (Lou Black)
- Uncharted (Orchestra U.S.A.)
- Fortieth (Duke Ellington)
- Cootie (Cootie Williams)
- Praise (Duke Ellington)
1964
- Triumph (Earl Hines)
- Sweet Tedium and Crippled Crabs (Hunter College blues concert)
- Drummin’ Man (Gene Krupa)
- Mingus Regained (Charles Mingus)
- Slow Motion (Bud Powell)
- Basie (Count Basie)
- A Creative Thing (Jeremy Steig)
- Chicago, Chicago (Austin High Gang)
- Ground Hog (Village Gate tap dance exhibition)
1965
- The New Thing (Ornette Coleman, New York Art Quartet, Giuseppi Logan, Cecil Taylor)
- Northern Lights (Charles Mingus, Earl Hines, Coleman Hawkins)
- Zeus (Roy Eldridge)
- Bird (Charlie Parker)
- The Fat and the Lean (Gil Evans, Gary McFarland)
- Frankie Ex Machina (Newport Jazz Festival 1965)
- Evans to Tate to… (Buddy Tate)
- The Road to Big Sur (Monterey Jazz Festival 1965)
- Zutty (Zutty Singleton)
1966
- Mecca, La. (New Orleans trip)
- Newport 1966
- Monterey 1966
1967
- The Burning Bush (Spirituals To Swing 1967 concert)
- Small Band (Duke Ellington)
- All Work and No Play (Ornette Coleman)
- One-Man Band (Art Tatum)
- Newport 1967
- Return Engagement (Duke Ellington)
- Coltrane (John Coltrane)
1968
- Which Ellington Are You? (Duke Ellington)
- Small Print (Benny Morton)
- Newport 1968
1969
- Pee Wee and Anita (Pee Wee Russell, Anita O’Day) ***
- Dancing (Town Hall tap dancing exhibition, Jeremy Steig)
- Coleman (Coleman Hawkins)
- Back Again (Charles Mingus)
- The Duke’s Party (Duke Ellington)
- Newport 1969
- Richard Gibson (1)
- Richard Gibson (2)
The Seventies
1970
- Big Bands (Thad Jones-Mel Lewis, Sy Oliver, Bill Berry)
- Duo (Jim Hall, Eddie Gomez)
- Mexican Bankroll (Johnny Hodges)
- The Duke (Duke Ellington)
- Newport 1970
- All Dressed Up and No Place to Go (Mobile Jazz Festival)
1971
- Miss Bessie (Bessie Smith)
- Newport 1971
1972
- Finis (Bucky Pizzarelli, George Barnes, Mahalia Jackson)
- Teddy and the M.J.Q. (Teddy Wilson, The Modern Jazz Quartet)
- New Coming (Sonny Rollins, Earl Hines, Jimmy Rushing)
- A Sweet, Thin, Easygoing Person (Charlie Christian)
- New Digs (Newport Jazz Festival 1972)
- Big Joe (Big Joe Turner)
- Jeru (Gerry Mulligan)
1973
- Beautiful (Ellis Larkins)
- The J.C.O.A. (Jazz Composers Orchestra, Charlie Haden, Carla Bley)
- Eubie (Eubie Blake, Scott Joplin)
- Duo, Nellie, and Marian (Jim Hall, Ron Carter, Nellie Lutcher, Marian McPartland)
- God (Art Tatum)
- Newport 1973
- Cinderella Man (Artie Shaw)
- Big Ben (Ben Webster)
- Gene (Gene Krupa)
- From Morton to Waller to James P. (Dick Wellstood)
- One Man’s Meat (Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz set)
- Entrepreneur (Eddie Condon)
1974
- Gallic View (Columbia Aimez-Vous Le Jazz set)
- Son (Brooks Kerr)
- True Blue (Mary Lou Williams)
- Repertory (National Jazz Ensemble, New York Jazz Repertory Company)
- Editor (Count Basie)
- Dancer (Baby Laurence)
- Bix (Bix Beiderbecke)
- R.I.P. (Duke Ellington)
- Youth (Harry Carney)
- Still Jumping (Sonny Greer)
- Farewell (The Modern Jazz Quartet)
- Choice (Anita Ellis)
1975
- Lady (Mabel Mercer)
- More Repertory (New York Jazz Repertory Company, National Jazz Ensemble)
- Three Pianists (Walter Norris, Cecil Taylor, Art Tatum)
- Newport 1975
- Zutty (Zutty Singleton)
- Halie (Mahalia Jackson)
- Five Important Recordings (The Modern Jazz Quartet; Milt Hinton; Lester Young; Jim Hall; Anthony Braxton)
1976
- Cool (Jazz Talk; American Dance Band Discography)
- Unique (Eddie Costa)
- Jimmy Rowles
- Gone (Ray Nance; Ruby Braff and George Barnes)
- Unsung (Charlie Shavers; Leo Watson)
- Brother Ray (Ray Charles)
- Bags (Milt Jackson)
- The Murphia (Bobby Hackett)
- Mr. Carter (Benny Carter)
- Folly (Eddie Sauter and Bill Finegan)
- Big Little Band (John Kirby)
- Newport 1976
- Pure Melody (Jimmy Blanton; Michael Moore)
- Front Runner (Zoot Sims)
- Dexter (Dexter Gordon)
- Pops (Louis Armstrong)
1977
- Erroll (Erroll Garner)
- Heretic (Jimmy Knepper)
- Poet, Singer, Dancer (Steve Lacy)
- Anthony Braxton
- Bach Lunch (George Shearing)
- Mary vs. Cecil (Mary Lou Williams and Cecil Taylor)
- Wizard (Albert Murray)
- Tatumesque (Adam Makowicz)
- The A.A.C.M.
- Newport 1977
- Reissues (Lionel Hampton; Red Norvo; Fletcher Henderson; Don Byas)
- Breeding (John Hammond)
- Umbrellas of Sound (Herbie Nichols)
1978
- Selfishness Is Essential (Duke Ellington)
- Ladies (Joanne Brackeen; Dorothy Donegan)
- Fat Girl (Fats Navarro; Woody Shaw)
- South Lawn (White House jazz concert)
- Newport 1978
- Neo (Scott Hamilton)
- Tommy (Tommy Flanagan)
- Dance (Duke Ellington)
1979
- His Work (Fred Astaire)
- Oil and Water (Jim Hall and Bob Brookmeyer)
- A Burning Desire (Adolphus “Doc” Cheatham)
- A Giocometti Sound (Pee Wee Russell)
- Small Label (Milt Gabler)
- Soul Soap (Keith Jarrett)
- Late Mingus (Charles Mingus)
- Hodges, Again (Johnny Hodges)
- Five Important Recordings (Jimmy Rowles; Billie Holiday; Red Norvo; Bob Brookmeyer; Air)
The Eighties
1980
- Addict (Art Pepper) ***
- Newport 1980
1981
- The New Red Norvo Trio
- Down the River (Kool Jazz Festival 1981)
- New Bird (Charlie Parker)
- Duke Ellington
- Reunion (The Modern Jazz Quartet)
1982
- Monk (Thelonious Monk)
- Sonny Greer
- Dizzy Gillespie and Bill Coleman
- Good Tidings (Old and New Dreams)
- Teddy Wilson
- King Again (Frank Sinatra)
- Bunny Berigan
- Otis Ferguson
- Making Do (Kool Jazz Festival 1982)
1983
- Old Wine, New Bottles (Warren Vaché)
- Earl Hines and Peck Kelley
- Whiz Kid (Wynton Marsalis)
- “The Sound of Jazz”
- Fauntleroy and the Brute (Ben Webster)
1984
- Michel Petrucciani and Paul Whiteman
- Like a Lilt (Count Basie)
- Morton Monologue (Jelly Roll Morton)
- The Blue Notes (Mosaic reissues)
- Vic (Vic Dickenson)
1985
- Classic Jazz Quartet; David Murray’s Octet; Zoot Sims and Al Cohn
- The Mulligan Sextet and Paul Gonsalves (Gerry Mulligan)
- Cootie Williams and Jo Jones
- Peakèd (Kool Jazz Festival 1985)
- Mingus at Work (Charles Mingus)
1986
- Basie Slips By (Count Basie)
- American Jazz Orchestra and The Leaders
- The Big Bands
- B.G.–and Big Sid (Benny Goodman; Sidney Catlett)
- From Joplin to Goodman, and Slightly Beyond (92nd Street Y festival)
1987
- The Keynotes
- Traps, the Drum Wonder (Buddy Rich)
- John Hammond and Dick Wellstood
- Ellington Slips By (Duke Ellington)
1988
- Cruising (S.S. Norway festival)
- Jimmy Knepper, Peggy, and the Duke (Peggy Lee; Duke Ellington)
- Stéphane Grappelli and Warne Marsh
1989
- Max (Max Gordon)
- Mixed Blessings (Grove’s) (New Grove Dictionary Of Jazz; The Reception of Jazz in America)
- Mingus Regained (Charles Mingus)
- A Hostile Land (Roy Eldridge)
- Goodbye, Michael (Michael Moore and Gene Bertoncini)
- Miles (Miles Davis)
1990
- Max and Kit (Max Roach and Kit Fitzgerald)
- Imagining Music (Jazz Fiction)
- Giants (Sarah Vaughan and Art Tatum)
- The Commodores (Milt Gabler)
1991
- Sidney Bechet
- Rollins Rampant (Sonny Rollins)
- Wynton Looks Back (Classical Jazz festival)
- Lady Day (Billie Holiday)
1992
- Bird Lives (Charlie Parker)
- The Other Allen (Henry Red Allen)
- Last Set (Sylvia Syms)
- The Heart, the Head, and the Pipes (Rosemary Clooney)
- The Real Jelly Roll (Jelly Roll Morton)
1993
- Nancy and Eddie (Nancy Marano and Eddie Monteiro)
- First Lady of Song (Ella Fitzgerald)
- Jumpin’ at the White House
- Celebrating the Duke (Duke Ellington)
1994
- King Louis (Louis Armstrong)
1995
- Harlem Morning (A Great Day in Harlem photo)
- The Young Guns (Christian McBride; Nicholas Payton; Cyrus Chestnut; Jacky Terrason; Joshua Redman; James Carter; Kevin Mahogany)
- Giant Steps (John Coltrane)
1996
- Lovano the Great (Joe Lovano)
- Tom Harrell
- The Wilder Side (Alec Wilder)
- The Dean (Hank Jones)
- Love Match (Miles Davis and Gil Evans)
1997
- Heir (Leon Parker)
- The Getz Gang (Stan Getz)
- The Prince of Jazz (Wynton Marsalis)
1999
- The Natural (Bill Charlap)
2000
- Seeing Music (Django Reinhardt)
2001
- Louis, Miles, and the Duke (Louis Armstrong; Miles Davis, Duke Ellington)
- Big Ben (Ben Webster)
New York Voices: Fourteen Portraits (2006)
- Régisseur (Julius Monk)
- A Great Flowering of Free Spirits (John Gordon)
- Their Own Gravity (Bob and Ray – Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding)
- Fan (Jean Bach)
- In the Berg (Lola Szladits)
- Harp Lady (Daphne Hellman)
- The Casualness of It (Jackie Mason)
- Jazz Clubs (Max Gordon, Barney Josephson and Bradley Cunningham)
- Goodbye Oompah (Harvey Phillips)
- How to Paint (Jon Schueler and Magda Salvesen)