Johnny Coles: An Annotated Discography

Recommended recordings

Note: these recommendations are based on Johnny Coles’ contributions, only.

Essential:
As leader:
The Warm Sound	Koch Jazz 7804 (CD)
Little Johnny C	Blue Note 32129 (CD)
New Morning	Criss Cross 1005 (CD)
Two at the Top	Uptown 2769 [CD]
As sideman:
With Gil Evans:
The Complete Pacific Jazz Sessions	Blue Note 58300 (CD)
Out of the Cool	Impulse 186 (CD)
Where Flamingos Fly	Artists House 14 (LP), A&M 0831 (CD) (both out of print)
With Charles Mingus:
Cornell 1964	Blue Note 92210 (CD)
Town Hall Concert 1964	OJC 042 (CD)
Live in ’64	Naxos 2.119006 (DVD)
With Ray Charles:
Genius + Soul: 50th Anniversary Collection	Rhino 72859 (CD) (for Am I Blue?) (out of print) *
With Tina Brooks:
The Waiting Game	Blue Note 45036 (CD)

Highly recommended
As leader:
Katumbo	Mainstream 346 (LP) (out of print)
As sideman:
With Ray Crawford:
Smooth Groove	Candid 79028 (CD)
With Duke Pearson:
Hush!	Lonehill Jazz 10324 (CD)
Honeybuns	Koch Jazz 8519 (CD)
With Horace Parlan:
Happy Frame of Mind	Blue Note 84134 (CD)
With Grant Green:
Am I Blue	Blue Note 35564 (CD)
With Herbie Hancock:
The Prisoner	Blue Note 25469 (CD)
With Frank Morgan:
Bebop Lives!	Contemporary 14026 (CD) (out of print)
With James Moody:
The Legendary 1963/64 Sessions	Lone Hill Jazz 10313 (CD)
(for Great Day)
With Dameronia:
To Tadd with Love	Uptown 27.11 (LP) (out of print)
With Buck Hill:
The Buck Stops Here	Muse 5416 (CD) (out of print)
With the Mark Masters Jazz Orchestra:
Plays the Jimmy Knepper Songbook	Focus 1001 (CD) (out of print)

Out of print items can be found on e-Bay, from Amazon Marketplace sellers, Euclid Records (www.euclidrecords.com), the Jazz Record Center (www.jazzrecordcenter.com) and Cadence (www.cadencebuilding.com), among others.

Last revised 17 June 2018