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Lester Bowie
Frederick, United States
Lester Bowie is credited on 886 releases across 169 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1965–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
886
Pressings credited
169
Albums
7
Decades active
91
In collections
Credited work
886 releases · 169 albums · active 1965–2025
- Performance · 2,417
- Other credits · 130
- Production · 32
Studios: Tonstudio Bauer · Studio Saravah · Polydor Studios (Dames II) · Sound Studios, Chicago
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Black Tie White Noise
1993
Man With A Movie Camera
2003
Sound+Vision
1989
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Brilliant Adventure [1992-2001]
2021
Fela's London Scene
1971
New Directions
1978
The Third Decade
1985
No Agreement
1977
Stolen Moments (Red Hot + Cool)
1994
Hi-Bop Ska
1994
Live In Japan
1985
Urban Bushmen
1982
Sorrow Tears And Blood
1977
Tutankhamun
1974
The Spiritual
1972
Bande Sonore Originale Du Film "Les Stances À Sophie"
1970
A.A.C.M., Great Black Music - A Jackson In Your House
1969
Funky Skull
1969
Spiritual Jazz (Esoteric, Modal And Deep Jazz From The Underground 1968-77)
2008
Defunkt+ Thermonuclear Sweat+
2005
Burn The Incline
2000
Jesceallàh
1992
Album
1989
Twilight Dreams
1987
Frequent collaborators
- Art Ensemble Of Chicago
- Various
- Archie Shepp
- The Art Ensemble Of Chicago
- Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy
- Jack DeJohnette
- Sunny Murray
- The Leaders (3)
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