Discography

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1943

  • Andy Kirk – “Fare Thee Well Honey” c/w “Baby, Don’t You Tell Me No Lie” (Decca 4449)

1944

  • Andy Kirk and his Orchestra Live at the Apollo 1944-1947 (Everybody’s EV 3003)
  • Andy Kirk – Andy’s Jive (Swing House (E) SWH 39)
  • The Uncollected Andy Kirk – Andy Kirk and his Twelve Clouds of Joy (Hindsight (E) HSR 227)
  • Andy Kirk and his Orchestra (no details) (Caracol (F) CAR 424)

1945

  • Andy Kirk and his Orchestra (no details) (Swing House (E) SWH 130)
  • Billy Eckstine – Together (Spotlite (E) SPJ 100)
  • Billy Eckstine – Blues for Sale (EmArcy MG 36029)
  • Billy Eckstine – The Love Songs of Mr. “B” (EmArcy MG 36030)
  • V.A. – The Advance Guard of the ’40s (EmArcy MG 36016)
  • Billy Eckstine – You Call It Madness (Regent MG 6058)
  • Billy Eckstine – Prisoner of Love (Regent MG 6052)

1946

  • Andy Kirk – “He’s My Baby” c/w “Soothe Me” (Decca 23870)
  • Andy Kirk – “Alabama Bound” c/w “Doggin’ Man Blues” (Decca 48073)
  • Billy Eckstine – My Deep Blue Dream (Regent MG 6054)
  • Billy Eckstine – I Surrender, Dear (EmArcy MG 36010)
  • V.A. – Boning Up the ‘Bones (EmArcy MG 36038)
  • Billy Eckstine – Mr. B and the Band (Savoy SJL 2214)
  • V.A. – The Bebop Era (RCA Victor LPV 519)
  • Fats Navarro Memorial – Fats – Bud – Klook – Sonny – Kinney (Savoy MG 12011)
  • Earl Bud Powell, Vol. 2 – Burning in U.S.A., 53-55 (Mythic Sound MS 6002-2)
  • Fats Navarro Memorial, Vol. 2 – Nostalgia (Savoy MG 12133)
  • V.A. – In the Beginning Bebop! (Savoy MG 12119)
  • Coleman Hawkins – Bean and the Boys (Prestige PR 7824)

1947

  • Illinois Jacquet and his Tenor Sax (Aladdin AL 803)
  • V.A. – Opus de Bop (Savoy MG 12114)
  • Billy Stewart/Ray Abrams – Gloomy Sunday c/w In My Solitude (Savoy 647)
  • Milton Buggs/Ray Abrams – I Live True to You c/w Fine Brown Frame (Savoy 648)
  • V.A. – Jazz Off the Air, Vol. 2 (Vox VSP 310)
  • The Fabulous Fats Navarro, Vol. 1 (Blue Note BLP 1531)
  • Fats Navarro – Fat Girl (Savoy SJL 2216)
  • Charlie Parker – “Anthropology” (Spotlite (E) SPJ 108)
  • Coleman Hawkins – His Greatest Hits 1939-47, Vol. 17 (RCA (F) 730625)
  • Coleman Hawkins – Body and Soul: A Jazz Autobiography (RCA Victor LPV 501)
  • V.A. – All American Hot Jazz (RCA Victor LPV 544)

1948

  • Lionel Hampton and his Orchestra 1948 (Weka (Swt) Jds 12-1)
  • Lionel Hampton in Concert (Cicala Jazz Live (It) BLJ 8015)
  • Fats Navarro Featured with the Tadd Dameron Quintet (Jazzland JLP 50)
  • The Tadd Dameron Band 1948 (Jazzland JLP 68)
  • Benny Goodman/Charlie Barnet – Capitol Jazz Classics, Vol. 15: Bebop Spoken Here (Capitol M 11061)
  • The Fabulous Fats Navarro, Vol. 2 (Blue Note BLP 1532)
  • V.A. – The Other Side Blue Note 1500 Series (Blue Note (J) BNJ 61008/10)
  • The Complete Blue Note and Capitol Recordings of Fats Navarro and Tadd Dameron (Blue Note CDP 7243 8 33373-2)
  • Earl Coleman – I Wished on the Moon c/w Guilty (Dial 756)
  • Dexter Gordon on Dial – Move! (Spotlite (E) SPJ 133)

1949

  • The Metronome All Stars – From Swing to Be-Bop (RCA Camden CAL 426)
  • Dizzy Gillespie – Strictly Be Bop (Capitol M 11059)
  • Jazz at the Philharmonic – J.A.T.P. at Carnegie Hall 1949 (Pablo PACD 5311-2)
  • The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 1 (Blue Note BLP 1503)
  • V.A. – 25 Years of Prestige (Prestige PR 24046)
  • Miles Davis/Dizzy Gillespie/Fats Navarro – Trumpet Giants (New Jazz NJLP 8296)
  • Don Lanphere/Fats Navarro/Leo Parker/Al Haig – Prestige First Sessions, Vol. 1 (Prestige PRCD 24114-2)

1950

  • Charlie Parker – Fats Navarro – Bud Powell (Ozone 4)
  • Charlie Parker – One Night in Birdland (Columbia JG 34808)
  • Charlie Parker – Bud Powell – Fats Navarro (Ozone 9)
  • Hooray for Miles Davis, Vol. 1 (Session Disc 101)
  • Miles Davis All Stars and Gil Evans (Beppo (E) BEP 502)
  • The Persuasively Coherent Miles Davis (Alto AL 701)
  • Hooray for Miles Davis, Vol. 2 (Session Disc 102)

Compilations

  • 1995: The Complete Blue Note and Capitol Recordings of Fats Navarro and Tadd Dameron (Blue Note)