Dmitry Posted January 12, 2006 Report Posted January 12, 2006 I passed by this album countless times while browsing the used bins. Bad mistake. Better late than never...... Quote
GA Russell Posted January 12, 2006 Report Posted January 12, 2006 Your Music has the K2 of that here: http://www.yourmusic.com/browse/album/Tony...ered-50578.html It's already in my queue! Quote
Dmitry Posted January 12, 2006 Author Report Posted January 12, 2006 Do you think Evans was the most recorded pianist in jazz history? Quote
Claude Posted January 12, 2006 Report Posted January 12, 2006 Only if you consider Duke as a bandleader and not a pianist. Quote
Dmitry Posted January 12, 2006 Author Report Posted January 12, 2006 Only if you consider Duke as a bandleader and not a pianist. Naturally. Quote
Free For All Posted January 12, 2006 Report Posted January 12, 2006 Do you think Evans was the most recorded pianist in jazz history? The only one who might be close that I can think of is OP. Quote
Tony Pusey Posted January 12, 2006 Report Posted January 12, 2006 Jarret must be close to the most recorded I would have thought.. Quote
Free For All Posted January 12, 2006 Report Posted January 12, 2006 A quick check at CDUniverse reveals: (no. of CDs credited to artist) Bill Evans 237 Oscar Peterson 222 Keith Jarrett 138 Herbie Hancock 125 Chick Corea 125 A very unofficial survey for sure. Quote
garthsj Posted January 13, 2006 Report Posted January 13, 2006 A quick check at CDUniverse reveals: (no. of CDs credited to artist) Bill Evans 237 Oscar Peterson 222 Keith Jarrett 138 Herbie Hancock 125 Chick Corea 125 A very unofficial survey for sure. I guess it depends on what you mean by "recorded"? (Do I sound like Bill Clinton here?) ... If you discount Duke's sitting at the piano during all of those sessions over fifty years with the orchestra, and include all of the sessions a pianist did as a sideman/accompanist, then I think that Oscar would win outright. I looked that the listings for Evans on CDUniverse, and there are lots of duplications ... not quite as many for Oscar, and many of his albums are OOP (pun intended!). Quote
Guy Berger Posted January 13, 2006 Report Posted January 13, 2006 (edited) A quick check at CDUniverse reveals: (no. of CDs credited to artist) Bill Evans 237 Oscar Peterson 222 Keith Jarrett 138 Herbie Hancock 125 Chick Corea 125 A very unofficial survey for sure. Peterson was a much busier sideman than Evans, I believe... Guy Edited January 13, 2006 by Guy Quote
EKE BBB Posted January 16, 2006 Report Posted January 16, 2006 Not that this proves nothing with accuracy but, according to Tom Lord Discography, there are quite a few pianists with many more sessions than Bill Evans: -Duke Ellington 1109 -Hank Jones 933 -Count Basie 609 -Teddy Wilson 557 -Fletcher Henderson 514 -Jess Stacy 489 -Herbie Hancock 464 -Stan Kenton 445 -Jimmy Rowles 444 -Oscar Peterson 412 -27 other pianists, from 379 to 242 (among them "rarities" such as Irving Brodsky, Arthur Schutt. Chummy McGregor, Bengt Hallberg or Paul Smith) ... -Bill Evans 240 With the old version (4.4), I compiled a list in Excel for all the musicians included in the index with more than 25 sessions, that I can order alphabetically, by number of sessions or by recording years (yes, I do stupid things sometimes, I know) Quote
Free For All Posted January 16, 2006 Report Posted January 16, 2006 (edited) Not that this proves nothing with accuracy but, according to Tom Lord Discography, there are quite a few pianists with many more sessions than Bill Evans: -Duke Ellington 1109 -Hank Jones 933 -Count Basie 609 -Teddy Wilson 557 -Fletcher Henderson 514 -Jess Stacy 489 -Herbie Hancock 464 -Stan Kenton 445 -Jimmy Rowles 444 -Oscar Peterson 412 -27 other pianists, from 379 to 242 (among them "rarities" such as Irving Brodsky, Arthur Schutt. Chummy McGregor, Bengt Hallberg or Paul Smith) ... -Bill Evans 240 Very interesting. I'm assuming your compilation includes all appearances, sideman as well as leader dates. One thing that's interesting is that, for example, Herbie's number on your list is 464, which is WAY up from the number I got from CDUniverse (125), whereas the number for Bill Evans is almost exactly the same as the CDUniverse number (240 compared to 237). Not sure why that is. Thanks for providing this info EKE! I'm sure your source is much more accurate than my quick check of CDUniverse. Edited January 16, 2006 by Free For All Quote
EKE BBB Posted January 16, 2006 Report Posted January 16, 2006 Very interesting. I'm assuming your compilation includes all appearances, sideman as well as leader dates. ... Yes, both leader and sideman dates. One thing that's interesting is that, for example, Herbie's number on your list is 464, which is WAY up from the number I got from CDUniverse (125), whereas the number for Bill Evans is almost exactly the same as the CDUniverse number (240 compared to 237). Not sure why that is. ... Note that my list includes sessions, and not albums. For the LP era, the comparison depends on how many different recording dates are included in each album. Anyway, being a very helpful discographical tool, Lord incudes hundreds of errors, duplications, omissions.... But still more accurate than AMG, that´s for sure! Quote
Fer Urbina Posted January 16, 2006 Report Posted January 16, 2006 Anyway, being a very helpful discographical tool, Lord incudes hundreds of errors, duplications, omissions.... But still more accurate than AMG, that´s for sure! I'd say Lord's has more stuff in it than allmusic. I wouldn't know which one's more accurate, but I know which one is free In any case, it's very likely that Hank Jones made enough *anonymous* sessions (commercial dates, etc), at least in the 50s and 60s, to put him at the top of the list. F Quote
Dmitry Posted January 18, 2006 Author Report Posted January 18, 2006 A snippet of random day dreaming - Imagine what a duet album of Bill Evans and Lenny Breau would be like ! ! ! Quote
Ken Dryden Posted January 18, 2006 Report Posted January 18, 2006 A snippet of random day dreaming - Imagine what a duet album of Bill Evans and Lenny Breau would be like ! ! ! Bill Evans died at 51, so it would be hard to imagine that he could possibly be the most recorded jazz pianist in history, even with the appearance of so many posthumous bootlegs. His appearances as a sideman were infrequent, particularly after 1960. Neither All Music Guide nor Tom Lord's Jazz Discography will list everything, simply because it is a Herculean task to gather so much data from the history of recorded jazz, including every European and Asian release, let alone the numerous independent or long defunct small labels. I am glad that both of them exist and I regularly contribute to each of them. Quote
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