Information from the Sixth Draft is at present being incorporated into this discography. This comprehensive discography details sessions which were previously unknown to me and adds new information regarding alternative takes and live recordings. Malcolm Walker’s “Wardell Gray Discography” (compiled by Malcolm Walker and Don Tarrant) was unknown to me before this web site’s opening in May. Easy Swing: The Wardell Gray Discography by Coover Gazdar (Self-Published, Bangalore, India, 1997)Īnd finally Jan Evensmo’s peerless solography, included in “History of Jazz Tenor Saxophone – Black Artists” has been of inestimable value.Order by Dieter Salemann assisted by Dieter Hartmann & Michel Vogler (Jazz Circle Basel, 1986) Wardell Gray 1921-1955 Discographical Informations/Solography/Bandroutes/Engagements in chronological.Wardell Gray: A Discography by Claude Schlouch (Self-Published, Marseille, France, 1983).In addition, I have supplemented my own research by consulting three discographies on Wardell Gray: Russell Connor - Benny Goodman: Wrappin’ It Up (Scarecrow Press) (November 7, 1996) Russell Connor - Benny Goodman: Listen to His Legacy (Scarecrow Press) (April 1988) Chris Sheridan - Count Basie: A Bio-Discography (Greenwood Press, August 18, 1986).Hicks: BG On The Record – A Bio-discography of Benny Goodman (Arlington House) (Third Printing, April 1970) I am indebted to these scholars for their outstanding work: Russell Conner (Goodman) have painstakingly researched these periods.
Wardell’s activities with Benny Goodman and Count Basie dominated his recording activity throughout much of 1948 through 1951. I have retained Gazdar’s use of a number sign (#) next to a title when it features a Wardell Gray solo. When a small group performance is listed within a set performed by a larger group it is marked in the following manner: For more detailed information (solo length, tempo, etc.) please see Evensmo’s web site at Any errors - and I am certain there are many! - are my responsibility.Ĭorrections and/or additions are most welcome – please e-mail me Accardi
I hope that this work will be a helpful guide to other collectors in the building of their own collections. A four-disc anthology issued by Proper Records in 2003 covers most of Wardell’s career, but of course, it is far from comprehensive.
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The intended 15-CD “Complete Edition” series on the Masters Of Jazz label was sadly discontinued following their release of Volume 7, but the volumes that were issued remain the single most comprehensive overview of the period they cover. The collector will find many of the titles listed long out of print. In general, I have listed what I understand to be the first issue of each title as well as a few of the more recent and/or more readily available sources. Further, I have tried to detail primary sources for as much of this information as possible. I have endeavored here to point out those discrepancies, and - wherever possible - to attempt to make sense of them. There are many disagreements between these works. Jan Evensmo added an exhaustive and invaluable solography in the late 1990s, and Coover Gazdar published his “Easy Swing” discography at around that same time. Claude Schlouch’s essential Wardell discography was published in the early 1980s, and Dieter Salemann published his a few years later. Russell Connor and Chris Sheridan, have covered these years in astonishing detail.
Two of the planet’s premiere discographers, D. We decided to go ahead with this project, with hopes of accumulating as much knowledge as possible.įortunately, both Benny Goodman and Count Basie recognized Wardell’s genius, and he played a major role in the bands of both between 19. Eventually I got tired of waiting, and contacted Professor Stuart Varden, whose outstanding website devoted to Fats Navarro guided me through building my own “Fat Girl” collection. So much of the information I found was contradictory and confusing – and I kept waiting for a discography to show up on line.
I began compiling this discography strictly for my personal use– a checklist, basically, to help me make sense of what was out there and collect as much of it as I could. Unfortunately, much of his recorded legacy remains unissued or out of print – which is particularly astonishing considering the quality of this body of work. Wardell Gray played with nearly every major figure in jazz history, and his discography is a wonder to digest. Wardell Gray Discography WARDELL GRAY – A DISCOGRAPHY 1944-1955 Compiled by James Accardi (Last Revised: April 15, 2022)
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