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Johnny Coles
real name John Coles
US jazz trumpeter
Trenton, United States · 1926-07-03 – 1997-12-21
Johnny Coles is credited on 1,059 releases across 195 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1952–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
1,059
Credits
195
Albums
8
Decades active
316
In collections
Biography
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American jazz trumpet player, born 3 July 1926 in Trenton, New Jersey, died 21 December 1996 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Bio from Discogs
Credited work
1,059 releases · 195 albums · active 1952–2026
- Performance · 1,274
- Other credits · 32
Studios: Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey · Columbia 30th Street Studio · Théâtre des Champs-Élysées · Webster Hall
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Sketches Of Spain
1960
Porgy And Bess
1959
Out Of The Cool
1961
The Prisoner
1970
Miles Davis At Carnegie Hall
1962
The Smithsonian Collection Of Classic Jazz
1973
Look To The Rainbow
1966
Fat Albert Rotunda
1969
Little Johnny C
1963
The Waiting Game
1999
Guitar Forms
1965
Treasure Chest
1974
Great Jazz Standards
1959
The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings
New Bottle Old Wine
1958
The Essential Miles Davis
2001
Happy Frame Of Mind
1986
The Best Of Herbie Hancock
1971
Love Songs
1999
The Individualism Of Gil Evans
1964
Miles Ahead (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
2016
5 Original Albums
2016
Blue Miles
2000
The Ellington Suites
1976
Frequent collaborators
- Miles Davis
- Various
- Herbie Hancock
- Charles Mingus
- Duke Ellington
- Gil Evans
- James Moody
- The Gil Evans Orchestra
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