Performance
Earl May
Earl May is credited on 664 releases across 152 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1952–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
664
Pressings credited
152
Albums
8
Decades active
451
In collections
Credited work
664 releases · 152 albums · active 1952–2026
- Performance · 676
Studios: Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey · Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey · Village Gate · Newport Jazz Festival
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Blue Train
1958

Giant Steps
1960

Chet
1959

Lush Life
1961

Chet Baker In New York
1958

20/20
1985

Coltrane Plays The Blues
1962

Bags & Trane
1961

Hard Driving Jazz
1959

Plays The Best Of Lerner & Loewe
1959

Glory Of Love
1967

The Last Trane
1965

...More Lasting Than Bronze
1972

Rich Versus Roach
1959

The Best Of Dizzy Gillespie
1980

The Evolution Of Mann
1972

Latin Mann (Afro To Bossa To Blues)
1965

Eight Classic Albums
2012

The Best Of John Coltrane
2004

Welcome To The Basement (A Spicy Mixture From Black & Latin America)
2000

Monterey Jazz Festival: 40 Legendary Years
1997

John Coltrane
1996

The Great Jazz Groups
1994

For Members Only / Great Scott!!
1989
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