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Whitney Balliett

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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

 

There are essays that when they appeared in Collected Works were heavily revised/edited with chunks removed. These include:

 

6/1/76 – Milt Jackson
6/23/78 – Newport Jazz Festival silver anniversary
11/27/78 – recorded jazz/live recordings/Duke Ellington Fargo

 

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)