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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