Who are your top 3?

[mikelz777]

When you look at the leader of a group, much more often than not they are probably going to be playing piano, trumpet, tenor sax or alto sax. Who are the top 3 players in each category represented in your collection? (I only counted leadership dates and actual physical discs. Thus if there were 2 albums on 1 CD, I only counted the 1 CD. For box sets, I counted each CD in the set.)

Mine are:

Piano

Bill Evans (25)

Count Basie (23)

Horace Silver (12)

Tenor Sax

Dexter Gordon (32)

Stan Getz (28)

Lester Young (27)

*Honorable mention - John Coltrane (26)

Alto Sax

Art Pepper (42)

Jackie McLean (11)

Lou Donaldson (8)

*Honorable mention - Cannonball Adderley and Paul Desmond (7)

Trumpet

Louis Armstrong (25)

Chet Baker (23)

Donald Byrd (17)

Edited June 8, 2008 by mikelz777

[Van Basten II]

If we count each CD on a boxset, think in my case Duke Ellington has got the lead followed by Miles Davis.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Slightly different categories for me

Tenor sax

Houston Person (58)

Gene Ammons (55)

Stanley Turrentine (54)

Alto sax

Sonny Stitt (75) (of course, quite a lot of tenor included )

Lou Donaldson (49)

Hank Crawford (41)

Piano

Les McCann (47)

Junior Mance (36)

Horace Silver (19)

Guitar

Grant Green (35)

Kenny Burrell (31)

Jimmy Ponder (20)

Trumpet/cornet

Nat Adderley (30)

Blue Mitchell (22)

Donald Byrd (12)

Organ

Jack McDuff (61)

Jimmy Smith (60)

Jimmy McGriff (51)

Vocal

Youssou Ndour (35)

Ray Charles (26)

Bobby Bland (21)

MG

[aparxa]

Piano

Monk : 49

Evans : 29

Silver : 16

Tenor Sax

Coltrane 14

Getz 10

Rollins 10

Alto Sax

Adderley 8

Bartz 8

Parker 7

Trumpet

Miles 22

Chet 9

Louis 7

Growin'

[bluemonk]

Piano:

Bill Evans - 50

Thelonious Monk - 36

Red Garland - 35

Alto Saxophone:

Paul Desmond - 17

Cannonball Adderley - 14

Gigi Gryce - 10

Tenor Saxophone:

Stan Getz - 25

John Coltrane - 20

Coleman Hawkins - 10

Trumpet:

Miles Davis - I'm not even going to count them (my guess would be 70)

Lee Morgan - 16

Freddie Hubbard - 12

Guitar:

Pat Metheny - 34

Bill Frisell - 32 (this does not include session work, which would be about 60)

John Abercrombie - 24

Vibraphone:

Bobby Hutcherson - 15

Joe Locke - 12

Gary Burton - 10

Edited June 7, 2008 by bluemonk

[Chuck Nessa]

None of the above. Ain't life grand!

[jlhoots]

None of the above. Ain't life grand!

Really?

No (or little) Miles, Trane, Monk.

Come on - give us your list.

[Uncle Skid]

If Chuck does post a list, I'd bet heavily on Cecil Taylor.

[papsrus]

I'll play.

These the players are among those I've been listening to over the past year or so ...

Piano:

Duke Ellington

Count Basie

Myra Melford

Alto:

Johnny Hodges

Art Pepper

Matana Roberts

Tenor:

Paul Gonsalves

Fred Anderson

Hank Mobley

Trumpet:

Miles Davis

Wadada Leo Smith

Dave Douglas

Bass:

Scott LaFaro

Henri Texier

William Parker

Drums:

Tony Williams

Brian Blade

Hamid Drake

Clarinet:

Benny Goodman

Michael Moore

Barney Bigard

[BillF]

These are the artists with the greatest number of discs in my collection:

Miles 26

Mulligan 25

Bird 18

Monk 17

Blakey 17

[sidewinder]

Just counted 76 Miles Lps, combined with all of the Mosaic boxes and CD sets and quite a few (at least 20) on CBS CD so I'd say he wins by a wisker

[B. Clugston]

Piano:

Cecil Taylor

Sun Ra

Thelonious Monk

Trumpet

Miles Davis

Lee Morgan

Kenny Dorham

Alto Sax

Anthony Braxton (130+)

Ornette Coleman

Eric Dolphy

Tenor Sax

Albert Ayler

John Coltrane

Roland Kirk

[AndrewHill]

Okay, let me organize it.

Trunpet:

Miles Davis-32

Chet Baker-12

Lee Morgan-11

Alto Sax:

Ornette Coleman-25

Jackie McLean-20

Anthony Braxton-15

Tenor Sax:

John Coltrane-33

Peter Brotzmann-24

Albert Ayler-14

Piano:

Sun Ra-33

Thelonious Monk-21

Cecil Taylor-17

Runner Up:

Andrew Hill-15

Bass:

Charles Mingus: 25

Paul Chambers: 3

Peter Kowald: 2

Drums:

Art Blakey: 17

Sunny Murray-5

Tony Williams-2

Guitar:

Kenny Burrell-6

Jimmy Raney-4

Sonny Sharrock-3

Organ:

Big John Patton-5

Larry Young-4

Lonnie Smith-3

Edited June 8, 2008 by Holy Ghost

[Quincy]

Piano

Glenn Gould (81) Oh, you want jazz?

Duke Ellington (39)

Thelonious Monk (32)

Count Basie (10)

Tenor Sax

John Coltrane (48) - possibly didn't play tenor on 1 or 2.

Sonny Rollins (26)

Hank Mobley (15)

Stan Getz (15)

Alto Sax

Ornette Coleman (15) (not counting "On Tenor" )

Lee Konitz (14)

Jackie McLean (14)

Trumpet/Cornet/Flugelhorn

Miles Davis (74)

Dave Douglas? (9)

Bix Beiderbecke (8) - hmm, not leader on all material on the discs.

Huh, that's weird. I guess I like my trumpets on the side. If you counted all of the Blakey/Silver/Mobley and other small group sides with 1 trumpet in the band Morgan would be #2 at 23. But you did ask for leader only...

Trombone

Jack Teagarden (12)

J.J. Johnson (10)

Guitar

Jerry Garcia/Bob Weir (lots!) skipping to jazz...

Django Reinhardt (14)

Bill Frisell (11)

Tal Farlow (8)

Edited June 9, 2008 by Quincy

[AndrewHill]

"Ornette Coleman (15) (not counting "On Tenor" )"

I did

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

"Ornette Coleman (15) (not counting "On Tenor" )"

I did

Yeah, I counted all my Sonny Stitt as alto. I mean, come on...

MG

[Quincy]

"Ornette Coleman (15) (not counting "On Tenor" )"

I did

Yeah, I counted all my Sonny Stitt as alto. I mean, come on...

MG

Well Ornette was kinda easy, as it was in the title.

[BruceH]

Too much counting.

[Van Basten II]

I asked for Florida officials to help me with my count, apparently Kenny G is the leader.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

I asked for Florida officials to help me with my count, apparently Kenny G is the leader.

MG