John Lewis (pianist) - Discography

Discography

As leader
  • Improvised Meditations and Excursions (1959, Atlantic 1313)
  • Odds Against Tomorrow (1959, UA 5061)
  • The Golden Striker (1960, Atlantic 1334)
  • Original Sin (Atlantic, 1961)
  • P.O.V. (1975, Columbia PC33534), including "Mirjana of my Heart and Soul"
  • Kansas City Breaks (1982, Finesse)
  • Preludes and Fugues from the Well-tempered Clavier Book 1 (1984, Philips)
  • The Bridge Game (1984, Philips)
  • The Chess Game Volume 1 (1990, Polygram Records)
  • The Chess Game Volume 2 (1990, Polygram Records)
  • Evolution (Atlantic, 1999)
  • Evolution II (Atlantic, 2000)
As sideman with Charlie Parker
  • The Genius of Charlie Parker (1945–8, Savoy 12009)
  • "Parker's Mood" (1948)
  • Charlie Parker (1951–3, Clef 287)
  • "Blues for Alice" (1951)
As leader of Orchestra U.S.A. (with Gunther Schuller and Harold Farberman)
  • Orchestra U.S.A. (1963, Colpix 448), including "Three Little Feelings"
Recordings with the Modern Jazz Quartet
  • Vendome (1952, Prestige 851)
  • Modern Jazz Quartet, ii (1954–5, Prestige 170) incl. "Django" (1954)
  • Concorde (1955, Prestige 7005)
  • Fontessa (1956, Atlantic 1231) included "Versailles"
  • The Modern Jazz Quartet Plays No Sun in Venice (Atlantic, 1957)
  • The Modern Jazz Quartet (Atlantic, 1957)
  • Third Stream Music (1957, 1959–60, Atlantic. 1345) including "Sketch for Double String Quartet" (1959)
  • The Modern Jazz Quartet and the Oscar Peterson Trio at the Opera House (Verve, 1957)
  • The Modern Jazz Quartet at Music Inn Volume 2 (Atlantic, 1958)
  • Music from Odds Against Tomorrow (United Artists, 1959)
  • Pyramid (Atlantic, 1960)
  • European Concert (Atlantic, 1960)
  • The Modern Jazz Quartet & Orchestra (Atlantic, 1960)
  • The Comedy (1962, Atlantic 1390)
  • Lonely Woman (Atlantic, 1962)
  • A Quartet is a Quartet is a Quartet (1963, Atlantic 1420)
  • Collaboration (Atlantic, 1964) - with Laurindo Almeida
  • The Modern Jazz Quartet Plays George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess (Atlantic, 1964–65)
  • Jazz Dialogue (Atlantic, 1965) with the All-Star Jazz Band
  • Concert in Japan '66 (Atlantic, 1966)
  • Blues at Carnegie Hall (Atlantic, 1966)
  • Place Vendôme (Philips, 1966) - with The Swingle Singers
  • Under the Jasmin Tree (Apple, 1968)
  • Space (Apple, 1969)
  • Plastic Dreams (Atlantic, 1971)
  • The Legendary Profile (Atlantic, 1974)
  • In Memoriam (Little David, 1973)
  • Blues on Bach (Atlantic, 1973)
  • The Last Concert (Atlantic, 1974)
  • Reunion at Budokan 1981 (Pablo, 1981)
  • Together Again: Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival '82 (Pablo, 1982)
  • Echoes (Pablo, 1984)
  • Topsy: This One's for Basie (Pablo, 1985)
  • Three Windows (Atlantic, 1987)
  • For Ellington (East West, 1988)
  • MJQ & Friends: A 40th Anniversary Celebration (Atlantic, 1992–93)

With Clifford Brown

  • Memorial Album (Blue Note, 1953)

With Dizzy Gillespie and Sonny Stitt

  • The Bop Session (Sonet, 1975) with Percy Heath and Max Roach

With Milt Jackson

  • Ballads & Blues (Atlantic, 1956)
Contributions
  • Bill Evans: A Tribute (Palo Alto, 1982) - performs "I'll Remember April"
  • The Jazztet and John Lewis (Argo, 1961) - as composer and arranger

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