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Ed Cherry
Ed Cherry is credited on 85 releases across 26 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1979–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
85
Pressings credited
26
Albums
6
Decades active
1
In collections
Biography
Edward E. Cherry Jr. (born October 12, 1954) is an American jazz guitarist and studio musician. Cherry is perhaps best known for his long association with trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, with whom he performed from 1978 until shortly before Gillespie's death in 1993. Since that time, he has worked with Paquito D'Rivera, Jon Faddis, John Patton, Hamiet Bluiett, Henry Threadgill, and Paula West. He has recorded a number of albums as a leader.
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Credited work
85 releases · 26 albums · active 1979–2025
- Performance · 116
- Other credits · 1
Studios: Sear Sound · East Side Sound · Acoustic Recording · Noble Street Studios
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Dizzy Gillespie
- Henry Threadgill
- Various
- Big John Patton
- Paquito D'Rivera
- Friedrich Gulda
- Jared Gold
- Grant Green
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