1965 · A Love Supreme
The four years of the Coltrane Classic Quartet (1961–65) represent one of the most concentrated periods of creation in jazz history. Elvin
Library — Double Bass
Jimmy Garrison
1 album as leader and 12 as sideman (1958–2024), each listed chronologically.
As Leader · 1
As Sideman · 12
Notes on these albums · 5
John Coltrane1958 · Blues for Dracula
On the title track of Coltrane's 1959 Giant Steps, pianist Tommy Flanagan reportedly hadn't fully absorbed the tune's dense chord changes before the take, and his solo trails off into near silence. The album's signature piece is remembered as much for its accompanist's hesitation as for its harmonic breakthrough.
Tommy Flanagan1959 · Blues-ette
Brought in to rebuild the Jazz Messengers in 1958, Benny Golson recruited the new lineup — Bobby Timmons on piano among them — and wrote most of Moanin'. The tune that ended up defining the record was the title track, written by the pianist he had just hired. Golson was gone within months.
1964 · Today And Tomorrow
In 1962-63, Butch Warren was the house bassist behind landmark Blue Note sessions -- Joe Henderson's Page One, Herbie Hancock's Takin' Off among them. Within a few years he vanished from the jazz world entirely, living in obscurity back home in Washington, D.C., and was only rediscovered decades later, not long before his death in 2013.
1968 · Puttin' It Together
Joe Farrell was blowing tenor in Elvin Jones's hard-bop quartet on Puttin' It Together (1968). Five years later he turns up next to rock guitarist Tommy Bolin on Billy Cobham's Spectrum (1973), one of fusion's landmark records.
