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Cal Massey
Cal Massey is credited on 332 releases across 75 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1955–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
332
Pressings credited
75
Albums
8
Decades active
181
In collections
Biography
Calvin "Cal" Massey (January 11, 1928 – October 25, 1972) was an American jazz trumpeter and composer.
Bio from Wikipedia
Credited work
332 releases · 75 albums · active 1955–2025
- Performance · 473
- Other credits · 27
Studios: Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey · Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey · Nola Recording Studios · Jazz Ost-West Festival
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Lush Life
1961
Caramba
1968
Coltrane
1957
Expansions
1969
Africa/Brass
1961
Attica Blues
1972
Demon's Dance
1970
Leeway
1961
The Rajah
1984
Here To Stay
1985
The Cry Of My People
1973
Black Pearls
1964
The Verve Years (1950-51)
1976
...More Lasting Than Bronze
1972
Taru
1980
Kwanza
1974
Complete Africa / Brass
1991
Black Pearls
1974
Kind Of Coltrane 1926 - 1967
2009
Playtime
1999
That Man Is Forward
1981
Life's Force
1979
The Call
1978
Here To Stay
1976
Frequent collaborators
- Archie Shepp
- John Coltrane
- Lee Morgan
- The John Coltrane Quartet
- Horace Tapscott
- Archie Shepp Quartet
- Cedar Walton
- Freddie Hubbard
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