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Ray Copeland
Ray Copeland is credited on 540 releases across 118 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1954–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
540
Credits
118
Albums
8
Decades active
158
In collections
Biography
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Ray Copeland (born July 17, 1926, Norfolk, Virginia, USA - died May 18, 1984, Sunderland, Massachusetts, USA) was an American jazz trumpeter. Father of jazz drummer Keith Copeland.
Bio from Discogs
Credited work
540 releases · 118 albums · active 1954–2026
- Performance · 736
- Other credits · 14
- Production · 2
Studios: Reeves Sound Studios · Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey · WOR Studios · Webster Hall
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Thelonious Monk With John Coltrane
1961
Monk's Music
1957
...And Then There Was X
1999
The Smithsonian Collection Of Classic Jazz
1973
Thelonious Monk
1956
Another Side Of John Coltrane
2021
Straight No Chaser (Music From The Motion Picture)
1989
Play It Again, Erroll!
1975
Monk / Trane
1973
Thelonious Monk
1972
Art Blakey's Big Band
1958
Jazz Sampler
1955
The Complete Prestige 10-Inch LP Collection
2017
The Complete 1957 Riverside Recordings
2006
Strange Brew
2004
The Man Who Invented Soul
2000
Eight Classic Albums
2010
After 8
2004
The Columbia Years | '62-'68
2001
The Complete Prestige Recordings
2000
Monk's Dream
1986
The Thelonious Monk Memorial Album
1982
Tanjah
1973
Blood, Sweat & Brass
1970
Frequent collaborators
- Thelonious Monk
- Various
- Randy Weston
- Betty Carter
- Johnny Richards
- Frankie Laine
- Frank Foster
- The Fabulous Lionel Hampton And His All-Stars
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