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Jimmy Knepper
trombonist
Los Angeles, United States • 1927-11-22 – 2003-06-14
Jimmy Knepper is credited on 1,479 releases across 245 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1956–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
1,479
Pressings credited
245
Albums
8
Decades active
365
In collections
Biography
James Minter Knepper (November 22, 1927 – June 14, 2003) was an American jazz trombonist. In addition to his own recordings as leader, Knepper performed and recorded with Charlie Barnet, Woody Herman, Claude Thornhill, Stan Kenton, Benny Goodman, Gil Evans, Thad Jones and Mel Lewis, Toshiko Akiyoshi and Lew Tabackin, and, most famously, Charles Mingus in the late-1950s and early-1960s.
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Credited work
1,479 releases · 245 albums · active 1956–2025
- Performance · 1,892
- Other credits · 68
- Engineering · 2
Studios: Nola Recording Studios · Columbia 30th Street Studio · Atlantic Studios · Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Sketches Of Spain
1960
Mingus Ah Um
1959
Blues & Roots
1960
Out Of The Cool
1961
Tijuana Moods
1962
Miles Davis At Carnegie Hall
1962
The Smithsonian Collection Of Classic Jazz
1973
Oh Yeah
1962
The Jazz Experiments Of Charlie Mingus
1957
Me Myself An Eye
1979
Mingus
1961
East Coasting
1957
Better Git It In Your Soul
1971
Guitar Forms
1965
Newport Rebels
1961
Outward Bound
1960
Mingus Dynasty
1960
New York, N.Y.
1959
The Clown
1957
Cumbia & Jazz Fusion
1978
Road Time
1976
The Individualism Of Gil Evans
1964
Pre-Bird
1961
New Tijuana Moods
1986
Frequent collaborators
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