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Ray Nance
real name Ray Willis Nance
Chicago, United States
Ray Nance is credited on 2,257 releases across 495 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1951–2024 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
2,257
Credits
495
Albums
8
Decades active
227
In collections
Biography
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American jazz trumpet player, violinist and singer, born 10 December 1913 in Chicago, Illinois, USA, died 28 January 1976 in New York City, USA.
Bio from Discogs
Credited work
2,257 releases · 495 albums · active 1951–2024
- Performance · 4,602
- Other credits · 352
Studios: Newport Jazz Festival · Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey · Columbia 30th Street Studio · Carnegie Hall
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Ellington Indigos
1958
Money Jungle
1962
Ellington At Newport
1956
Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins
1963
Masterpieces By Ellington
1951
Blues In Orbit
1960
The Smithsonian Collection Of Classic Jazz
1973
First Time! The Count Meets The Duke
1962
Otto Preminger's Anatomy Of A Murder (From The Sound Track Of The Motion Picture)
1959
Ellington Uptown
1953
Jingle Bell Jazz
1962
Duke Ellington's Greatest Hits
1967
Such Sweet Thunder
1957
Unknown Session
1979
This Is The Big Band Era
1971
Duke Ellington's Liberian Suite
1949
At Fargo 1940 Live
1978
Ellington '66
1965
Duke Ellington His Piano And His Orchestra At The Bal Masque
1959
In A Mellotone
1956
Ellington At Newport 1956 (Complete)
1999
The Versatile Giant
1978
Duke Ellington And His Orchestra 1940-1941
1971
This Is Duke Ellington
1971
Frequent collaborators
- Duke Ellington
- Duke Ellington And His Orchestra
- Various
- Johnny Hodges
- Duke Ellington And His Famous Orchestra
- Duke Ellington & His Orchestra
- Earl Hines
- Ella Fitzgerald
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