Performance
Lee Gaines
real name Otho Lee Gaines
Lee Gaines is credited on 898 releases across 313 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1951–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
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Credits
313
Albums
8
Decades active
145
In collections
Biography
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American singer, songwriter and the founder of the Delta Rhythm Boys, a jazz and pop vocal group, born 21 April 1914, Houston, Mississippi, USA, died 15 July 1987, Helsinki, Finland.
He wrote the lyrics for "Take the "A" Train" and "Just A-Sittin' and A-Rockin'", two jazz standards by Billy Strayhorn.
Gaines was married, a calypso singer and former Cotton Club dancer.
Bio from Discogs
Credited work
898 releases · 313 albums · active 1951–2025
- Performance · 965
Studios: Village Vanguard · Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey · Webster Hall · Columbia 30th Street Studio
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Cookin' With The Miles Davis Quintet
1957
Steamin' With The Miles Davis Quintet
1961
Miles
1956
Bucket
1966
A Night At The Vanguard
1960
The Great Reunion
1963
Ella Fitzgerald
1965
A Jazz Date With Chris Connor
1958
The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert - Volume I
1950
The Great Reunion
The Duke Ellington Songbook, Volume Two: The Small Group Sessions
1982
Giants Of The Tenor Saxophone / The Genius Of Ben Webster And Coleman Hawkins
1974
Duke Ellington's 70th Birthday Concert
1970
Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Duke Ellington Song Book
1957
Pres & Sweets
1956
In The Sun
2002
Duke Ellington's Sophisticated Ladies
1981
Ella Live
1968
Impressions Of Duke Ellington
1962
At The Village Vanguard
1961
June Christy Recalls Those Kenton Days
1959
Glenn Miller Concert
1956
The Great Summit | The Master Takes
2000
Only Trust Your Heart
1995
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