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Shafi Hadi
Shafi Hadi is credited on 290 releases across 38 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1957–2023 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
290
Pressings credited
38
Albums
8
Decades active
164
In collections
Biography
William Curtis Porter (September 21, 1929 – June 1976), better known as Shafi Hadi, was an American jazz tenor and alto saxophonist known for his recordings with Charles Mingus and with Hank Mobley.
Bio from Wikipedia
Credited work
290 releases · 38 albums · active 1957–2023
- Performance · 530
- Other credits · 1
Studios: Columbia 30th Street Studio · Café Bohemia · Atlantic Studios · Audio-Video Studios
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Mingus Ah Um
1959
Blues & Roots
1960
Tijuana Moods
1962
The Jazz Experiments Of Charlie Mingus
1957
East Coasting
1957
Better Git It In Your Soul
1971
The Clown
1957
Nostalgia In Times Square / The Immortal 1959 Sessions
1979
Passions Of A Man: The Complete Atlantic Recordings 1956-1961
1997
Tonight At Noon
1964
Jazz Poll Winners
1960
A Modern Jazz Symposium Of Music And Poetry
1959
The Weary Blues With Langston Hughes
1958
Original Album Series
2011
Anthology
2011
Eight Classic Albums
2010
Pithecanthropus Erectus + The Clown
2009
Columbia Jazz Profiles
2007
Ken Burns Jazz
2000
The Complete 1959 CBS Charles Mingus Sessions
1993
Frequent collaborators
- Charles Mingus
- Charlie Mingus
- Various
- Langston Hughes
- Charly Mingus
- Davis
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