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Al Schackman
Al Schackman is credited on 445 releases across 73 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1958–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
445
Pressings credited
73
Albums
8
Decades active
125
In collections
Biography
Alvin Schackman (born October 5, 1933) is an American jazz guitarist and arranger, most noted for his long association with Nina Simone as her accompanist from 1957 to 2000.
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Credited work
445 releases · 73 albums · active 1958–2025
- Performance · 528
- Other credits · 95
- Production · 3
- Engineering · 3
Studios: Electric Lady Studios · Village Gate · Studio Katy · Newport Jazz Festival
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Pastel Blues
1965
Little Girl Blue
1959
Baltimore
1978
In Concert
1964
At The Village Gate
1962
Alice's Restaurant (Original Motion Picture Score)
1969
Nina Simone At Town Hall
1959
The Best Of Nina Simone
1969
To Love Somebody
1969
Portrait Of Sheila
1963
Feeling Good (Her Greatest Hits & Remixes)
2022
It Crawled Into My Hand, Honest
1968
Nina Simone At Carnegie Hall
1963
Nina At Newport
1960
Great Women Of Song
2023
A Single Woman
1993
Pastel Blues / Let It All Out
1990
A Very Rare Evening
1979
Balaklava
1968
Just About Everything
1966
Folksy Nina
1964
Back In Town
1964
High Life!
1963
The Colpix Singles
2018
Frequent collaborators
- Nina Simone
- Various
- The Fugs
- Harry Belafonte
- Pearls Before Swine
- Arlo Guthrie
- Olatunji And His Percussion, Brass, Woodwind, And Choir
- Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
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