Performance
Herman Foster
Herman Foster is credited on 245 releases across 54 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1957–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
245
Pressings credited
54
Albums
8
Decades active
36
In collections
Biography
Herman Foster (April 26, 1928 – April 3, 1999) was an American bebop jazz pianist. He was blinded during childbirth through the carelessness of a doctor. He began his musical career early playing the violin, clarinet, saxophone, and piano. He became a self-taught pianist. His family moved from Philadelphia to New York City in 1947 where he began to attend jam sessions and then played with Eric Dixon, Dick Carter and the big band of Herb Jones. Then he met Lou Donaldson and they played together from 1953 to 1966. He also worked with King Curtis, Bill English, and Seldon Powell in the 1950s, and with Al Casey and Gloria Lynne in the 1960s, in addition to playing with his own trio. He returned to work in Donaldson's quartet in the 1980s. In 1996 he married Hisayo Tominaga, a jazz vocalist.
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Credited work
245 releases · 54 albums · active 1957–2025
- Performance · 295
Studios: Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey · Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey · Power Station · Basin Street East
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Lou Donaldson
- Various
- Gloria Lynne
- Lou Donaldson Quartet
- King Curtis
- Lou Donaldson Quintet
- The Herman Foster Trio
- Ray Peterson
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