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Richard Carpenter

Richard Carpenter is credited on 1,262 releases across 288 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1956–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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1,262

Credits

288

Albums

8

Decades active

309

In collections

Biography

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Jazz producer, manager and dubious "songwriter". Associated with Chet Baker, Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt, Jimmy Mundy and Solid State Records. Not a performing musician himself, he took the simple outline from the 1950 single "Gravy", by Gene Ammons, and structured a blues number around it as "Walkin'"; Miles Davis first recorded the arrangement in 1952 as "Weirdo" for Blue Note, crediting himself as composer, but decided to re-record the tune for Prestige on April 29, 1954, with Carpenter now receiving composer credit.

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Credited work

1,262 releases · 288 albums · active 1956–2025

  • Performance · 1,315
  • Production · 108
  • Other credits · 12

Studios: The Blackhawk, San Francisco · Antibes Jazz Festival · Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey · Philharmonic Hall, New York

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