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Fred Guy
Burkeville, United States
Fred Guy is credited on 840 releases across 315 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1950–2019 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
840
Credits
315
Albums
7
Decades active
69
In collections
Biography
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American jazz banjo and guitar player, born May 23, 1897 in Burkeville, Virginia, died November 22, 1971 in Chicago, Illinois.
Guy spent most of his musical career with Duke Ellington, from 1925 to 1949, when he retired to work as manager of a ballroom in Chicago.
Bio from Discogs
Credited work
840 releases · 315 albums · active 1950–2019
- Performance · 1,580
- Other credits · 41
Studios: Cotton Club · Carnegie Hall · The Southland Cafe · Crystal Ballroom, Fargo
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
The Smithsonian Collection Of Classic Jazz
1973
Ellington Uptown
1953
This Is The Big Band Era
1971
Duke Ellington's Liberian Suite
1949
At Fargo 1940 Live
1978
In A Mellotone
1956
The Versatile Giant
1978
Duke Ellington And His Orchestra 1940-1941
1971
This Is Duke Ellington
1971
At The Cotton Club
1959
Lady Day (The Complete Billie Holiday On Columbia) (1933-1944)
2001
The Indispensable Duke Ellington Volumes 7/8 (1941-1942)
1984
Cotton Club Stars
1984
Stars Of The Apollo Theatre
1973
1928 - 1933
1971
Primping For The Prom
1968
The Best Of Ken Burns Jazz
2000
1935-1936
1992
The Essential Duke Ellington
1990
The Blanton-Webster Band
1986
Big Bands: Duke Ellington
1983
Jazz Masters Of The Sax
1983
Don't Explain
1982
The Guitarists
1980
Frequent collaborators
- Duke Ellington
- Duke Ellington And His Orchestra
- Various
- Duke Ellington And His Famous Orchestra
- Duke Ellington & His Orchestra
- Django Reinhardt
- Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra
- Johnny Hodges
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