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Harold Ousley
Chicago, United States • 1929-01-23 – 2015-08-13
Harold Ousley is credited on 338 releases across 94 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1958–2024 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
338
Pressings credited
94
Albums
8
Decades active
46
In collections
Biography
Harold Lomax Ousley (January 23, 1929 – August 13, 2015) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and flautist. He was also a composer and writer of works.
Bio from Wikipedia
Credited work
338 releases · 94 albums · active 1958–2024
- Performance · 465
- Other credits · 4
- Production · 3
Studios: Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey · Newport Jazz Festival · A&R Studios · Capitol Studios, New York City
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Midnight Creeper
1968

Mr. Shing-A-Ling
1968

Reel To Reel
1992

Backlash
1967

El Niño
1998

Spanish Grease
1965

Blue Benson
1976

Slow Freight
1967

It Was All A Dream
2001

So Blue So Funky (Heroes Of The Hammond / Volume 2)
1994

Shaft
1973

The Kid!
1972

Wild & Warm
1965

On The Spur Of The Moment
1961

It's A Beautiful Thing
1999

Pretty Things
1971

The Greatest Little Soul Band In The Land
1969

The George Benson Cookbook
1967
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- George Benson
- Brother Jack McDuff
- Lou Donaldson
- Freddie Hubbard
- Houston Person
- The Greatest Little Soul Band In The Land
- Jimmy Witherspoon
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