Performance · Other credits
Shad Collins
Shad Collins is credited on 492 releases across 169 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1950–2021 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
492
Pressings credited
169
Albums
8
Decades active
49
In collections
Biography
Lester Rallingston "Shad" Collins (June 27, 1910 – June 6, 1978) was an American jazz trumpet player, composer and arranger, who played in several leading bands between the 1930s and 1950s, including those led by Chick Webb, Benny Carter, Count Basie, Lester Young, Cab Calloway and Sam "The Man" Taylor.
Bio from Wikipedia
Credited work
492 releases · 169 albums · active 1950–2021
- Performance · 700
- Other credits · 1
Studios: Carnegie Hall · Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey · CBS Studios, New York · Savoy Ballroom
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
The Smithsonian Collection Of Classic Jazz
1973
The Billie Holiday Story Volume I
1973
Atlantic Rhythm And Blues 1947-1974
1985
Hi De Ho Man
1974
"The Golden Years" Volume II
1966
Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do
1975
The Original Recordings
1973
The Best Of Count Basie
1963
Lady Day (The Complete Billie Holiday On Columbia) (1933-1944)
2001
The Best Of Basie
1963
The Most Important Recordings Of Cab Calloway
1989
Jazz Masters Of The Sax
1983
The Changing Face Of Harlem
1976
Swingin' Buck Clayton Jams
1974
Meets The Master Saxes - Lester Young, Dexter Gordon, Illinois Jacquet
1974
The Billie Holiday Story Volume III
1973
Super Chief
1972
Blues By Basie
1956
Dicky Wells In Paris
1955
Frequent collaborators
Around the web
See who really made the music.
Gatefold maps every producer, engineer, and player across your shelf — the credits no one else surfaces.
Start your shelf →Free forever. Works with 10 records or 10,000.