Major Holley

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ex Teddy Wilson Trio, Shirley Scott Trio, Dave McKenna Quartet

American jazz bassist.

b. July 10, 1924 (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
d. October 25, 1990 (Maplewood, New Jersey, USA)

ALBUMS

Gerry Wiggins*, Major Holley, Ed Thigpen, Oliver Jackson

Milt Buckner, Major Holley, Jo Jones

Block Chords Parade

Jay McShann, Major Holley

Rose Murphy & Major Holley

Mighty Like A Rose

Major Holley And The Joe Van Enkhuizen Quartet With Rein De Graaff, Han Bennink

Totti Bergh Quintet

Duke Ellington And His Orchestra

Live At Carnegie Hall 1964 - Vol. 1

Duke Ellington And His Orchestra

Live At Carnegie Hall 1964 - Vol. 2

Duke Ellington And His Orchestra

Live At Carnegie Hall 1964

Doctor Billy Dodd And His Swing All Stars

At The Grand Opera House Volume One

Doctor Billy Dodd And His Swing All Stars

At The Grand Opera House Volume Two

Slam Stewart & Major Holley

Shut Yo’ Mouth!

Duke Jordan Trio

Acoustic Live At 3361 Black

Denon Jazz Sampler Volume 1

Bop/Contemporary Jazz/Cool Jazz

Phil Bodner, Doc Cheatham, Major Holley, Butch Miles, Ray Mosca, Marty Napoleon, Loren Schoenberg, Carrie Smith, Glenn Zottola

Highlights In Jazz Anniversary Concert Produced By Jack Kleinsinger

Hilton Ruiz With, Major Holley, Ed Blackwell, Ray Barretto, Steve Berrios

Latin Jazz/Bop/Cha-Cha

Rodney Jones/Tommy Flanagan Quartet

My Funny Valentine

Ray Bryant, Major Holley, Panama Francis

I Giganti Del Jazz Vol. 89

Jonah Jones / André Persiany / J.C. Heard / Major Holley

I Giganti Del Jazz Vol. 62

The Anglo-American All Stars / Johnny Mince / Keith Smith / Barney Bates / Vic Dickenson / All Gay / Major Holley / Oliver Jackson

100 Years Of American Dixieland Jazz (1883-1983)

Coleman Hawkins Quartet

Live At The London House Chicaco Illinois

Eddie Locke Sextet

Afs And All That Global Jazz

Eddie Locke, Tommy Flanagan, Major Holley, Oliver Jackson, Dan Morgenstern

Jivin’ With The Refugees From Hastings Street

Slam Stewart - Major Holley

Excuse Me Ludwig

Teddy Wilson And His All Stars

Teddy Wilson And His All Stars

Major Holley, Eddie Thompson

Jazz at Jacques, Vol. 1

Milt Jackson And Big Brass

For Someone I Love

Kenny Burrell With Stanley Turrentine / Major Holley Jr* / Bill English / Ray Barretto

Coleman Hawkins Quartet

Coleman Hawkins Quartet

Al Cohn - Zoot Sims Quintet

Major Holley, Casé, Jimmy Campbell, Moacyr Peixoto

The Good Neighbors Jazz

Phil Woods, Jimmy Rushing, Zot Sims*, Al Cohn, Richie Kamuca, Dave Frishberg, Major Holley, Mel Lewis, Tommy Potter, Mousey Alexander

Directly From The Half Note

Bop/Cool Jazz/Swing/Vocal

Stanley Turrentine, Shirley Scott, Major Holley Jr*, Al Harewood, Ray Barretto

Never Let Me Go

Coleman Hawkins Quartet

Coleman Hawkins Quartet Live In Chicago: Blowin’ Up A Breeze

Bop/Big Band/Jazz-Funk/Cool Jazz/Easy Listening

The Cliff Smalls Septet

Swing And Things

APPEARANCES +

Brazilian Jazz Quartet, The Good Neighbors Jazz

Coffee and Jazz + The Good Neighbors Jazz

Michel Legrand Meets Miles Davis / Ben Webster / Hank Jones / Donald Byrd / Paul Chambers / John Coltrane....

The Early Years 1945-50

Oscar Peterson & Ray Brown

Jazz 100年 Part4 Jazz Masterpiece Collection 12 Jazz Ultimate Jazz Guitar

Les Moulins De Son Cœur

Afro-Cuban Jazz/Big Band/Chanson

Illinois Jacquet

Blue Bossa - Cool Cuts From The Tropics

Strike Up The Band

Easy Listening/Theme/Big Band/Cool Jazz

Eddie Lockjaw Davis*

Coleman Hawkins / Quincy Jones / Stan Getz / Dave Brubeck

Desafinado (Jazz Samba Bossa Nova)

Bossa Nova/Cool Jazz/Samba/Latin Jazz

Jazz 100年 22 フル・ハウス～「ブルージー」と「グルーヴィー」

Joe Harriott Quintet

Abstract / Southern Horizons / Free Form

Klara Serveert 2

Coleman Hawkins Featuring Roy Eldridge & Johnny Hodges

Alive! At The Village Gate 1962

Afro-Cuban Jazz/Big Band/Chanson

The Genius Of Clarinet

Coleman Hawkins, Kenny Burrell

Desafinado + Bluesy Burrell

Coleman Hawkins, Roy Eldridge, Johnny Hodges

Hawkins! Eldridge! Hodges! Alive! At The Village Gate

Plays The Hip Hits + Golden Boy

Spirits Up Above: The Atlantic Years 1965-1976 - The Rahsaan Roland Kirk Anthology

Partying With Joe

Ronnie Scott Quintet* & Phil Seamen Quintet*

Ronnie Scott Quintet & Phil Seamen Quintet

Coleman Hawkins

Today And Now / Desafinado

The Complete Recordings 1945 - 1960

Live In Yamagata Vol. 1

Live In Yamagata Vol. 2

The Joe Harriott Story

Free Jazz/Afro-Cuban Jazz/Hard Bop

The Complete Felsted Mainstream Collection

Brassens* - Moustache (2) Avec Les Petits Français - Joe Newman - Eddie Davis* - Harry Edison - Cat Anderson - Dorothy Donegan

Georges Brassens & le Jazz

Live In Yamagata Vol. 1

Live In Japan 1977 Vol. 2

Jimmy Rushing, Zoot Sims & Al Cohn

The Scene - Live In New York

Francis Wolff, Jimmy Katz, Various

Blue Note Photography

Michel Legrand / Miles Davis

Legrand Jazz + Ascenseur Pour L’Echafaud

Live In Japan 1977 Vol. 1

Big Band/Latin Jazz/Swing/Cool Jazz/Vocal

The Kenny Baker Group

Midnight At Nixa & After Hours - A Session For Kicks

Presenting Kenny Graham

Afro-Cuban Jazz

Al Cohn / Zoot Sims

Complete Original Quintet / Sextet Studio Recordings

Coleman Hawkins

Maestros Del Jazz

3361 * Live In Japan

Summer In The City - The Soul Jazz Grooves Of Quincy Jones

Soul-Jazz/Jazz-Funk/Post Bop

Cole Porter Songbook

Oslo Jazzfestival 20 År

Eargle On Everest

Sonny Stitt & Zoot Sims

The Savoy Recordings

Introducing Roland Kirk

Bop/Free Jazz/Hard Bop

The Greatest Jazz Hits

Big Band/Hard Bop/Cool Jazz/Soul-Jazz/Latin Jazz/Swing

Cool Jazz/Hard Bop/Post Bop/Soundtrack

Saxophone Ballads

Bop/Hard Bop/Swing/Post Bop/Modal/Cool Jazz

Bossa Nova/Latin Jazz

Swinging The Big Band

The House That Trane Built: The Story Of Impulse Records

Hard Bop/Soul-Jazz/Free Jazz

Rose Murphy - The Chee-Chee Girl

Ragtime/Dixieland/Swing/Easy Listening

Columbia Small Group Swing Sessions 1953-62

The Artist Selects

The Stanley Dance Sessions

Progressions: 100 Years Of Jazz Guitar

Dixieland/Ragtime/Swing/Gypsy Jazz/Bop/Fusion/Modal/Post Bop/Pacific

Prestige Profiles

Bossa Nova. Босса Нова

Latin Jazz/Bossa Nova

Bossa Nova. Босса Нова

Coleman Hawkins

The Best Of Coleman Hawkins

Blue Note Perfect Takes

The Kings Of Jazz

Kings Of Jazz Featuring Kenny Davern: Live In Concert, 1974

Charlie Haden Quartet West

Always Say Goodbye

The Essential Collection 24 Smooth Jazz Classics

Fusion/Jazz-Funk/Smooth Jazz

Have You Had Your Vitamin B-3 Today?

Mick Mulligan And His Jazz Band Featuring George Melly

Quincy Jones Talkin’ Verve

Instrumental/Samba/Soul/Soul-Jazz/Bossa Nova

Cool I Love You

Blue Note Blend - On The Count Of 3

Contemporary Jazz

Blue Note 1939-1999 - 60 Ans De Jazz

From Here To Eternity

קול הג’אז הזה (קולות הג’אז הגדולים)

Big Band/Swing/Contemporary Jazz/Cool Jazz/Vocal/Ballad/Easy Listening/Bop/Soul-Jazz/Rhythm & Blues

The Blue Note Years

Ain’t Misbehavin’

The Reprise Studio Recordings

Kenny Burrell With Coleman Hawkins

Blue Pacific Funk - Wailin’ On The West Coast

Hard Bop/Soul-Jazz

Blue 45s (The Ultimate Jukebox)

Post Bop/Jazz-Funk/Latin Jazz

Swing Journal Presents The Blue Note

Bop/Free Jazz/Hard Bop/Modal/Post Bop/Soul-Jazz

The Blue Note Years Volume Three: Organ And Soul 1956 - 1967

The Jazz Singers

Elipson 1938 - 1998

The Blue Box: Blue Note’s Best

Coleman Hawkins

Jazz ’Round The Clock

Swing/Big Band/Bop/Hard Bop/Post Bop

McJazz & Friends

The Roots Of Acid Jazz

Toots Thielemans

Verve Jazz Masters 59

Bop/Latin Jazz/Free Improvisation/Easy Listening

Road to Oslo & Play It Again Joe

The Controversial Bruce Turner*

That’s The Blues, Dad

Coleman Hawkins

Hawkins! Alive! At The Village Gate

The Best Of Kenny Burrell

Duke Ellington And His Orchestra Featuring Paul Gonsalves, Johnny Hodges, Cootie Williams

Carnegie Hall ’64 - Volume One

Shirley Scott With Stanley Turrentine

Soul Shoutin’

André Persiani*

Jazz ’Round Midnight

Soul-Jazz/Cool Jazz/Bossa Nova/Hard Bop/Swing/Bop/Vocal

Dave McKenna Quartet Featuring Zoot Sims

Dave McKenna Quartet Featuring Zoot Sims

Henrik Johansen

- Og Det Var Så Det!

Swing/Jump Blues/Interview

Cordon Blue (Savour The Soul Sauce With Blue Note)

Stanley Turrentine

Jazz Giants On Verve - Blow Your Horn!

The Complete Cole Porter Songbooks

Hard Bop/Big Band/Easy Listening

Buddy Tate, Nat Simkins*, Houston Person

Just Friends (The Tenors Of Buddy Tate, Nat Simkins, Houston Person)

Anything Goes: The Cole Porter Songbook - Instrumentals

Hard Bop/Big Band

King Of The Blues

The 1986 Floating Jazz Festival

Introducing Alain Bouchet

Harry Sweets Edison* / The Jonah Jones Quartet

Harry Sweets Edison / Jonah Jones

The Claw Live At The Floating Jazz Festival

Peter Appleyard

The Essential Jazz Piano

The Balham Alligators

Live Alligators

Swamp Pop/Zydeco/Cajun/Rock & Roll/Rhythm & Blues/Jump Blues

Soul Fingers... And Funky Feet

Rahsaan: The Complete Mercury Recordings Of Roland Kirk

Bossa Nova/Hard Bop/Avant-garde Jazz

Jazz ’Round Midnight - Piano

Peter Appleyard

The Best Of The Jazz Saxophones Vol. III - Sonny Lester Collection

Hard Bop/Post Bop

Paesaggi Sonori 3 - Dal Jazz Alla New Age

Stanley Turrentine

The Best Of Stanley Turrentine · The Blue Note Years

Bop/Hard Bop/Post Bop

How Long Has This Been Going On?

Buddy Tate, Al Grey

Jazz-Club • Tenor Sax

Hard Bop/Post Bop/Free Jazz/Bop/Swing

And Then They Wrote... Mr. Wilson And Mr. Gershwin

Olivier Messiaen / Helen Humes

Messe De La Pentecôte - Livre D’Orgue / Sneakin Around

Coleman Hawkins

In A Mellow Tone

The Cats Are Swingin’

Hard Bop/Post Bop/Soul-Jazz

A Sample Of Blue Notes

17th International Jazz Festival Breda

Ragtime/Big Band/Rhythm & Blues

Jonah Jones Quartet*

Jonah Jones Quartet

Trombone Four-In-Hand

Bones For The King

Swing/Instrumental

The Best Of Blue Note Vol.2

Having The Blues Under European Sky

Jazz 4: The Fancy Family Of Trumpets

The Best Of Blue Note

Frank Sinatra With Quincy Jones And Orchestra*

L.A. Is My Lady

Bluesin’ Around

Jazz Masters Of The Sax

Blues ’N’ Jazz

Electric Blues/Big Band

Instrumentalists - Almost Forgotten

Hampton*, Salvador*, Clark Terry, Moustache

Hampton, Salvador, Clark Terry, Moustache Et Leurs Amis Jouent Brassens

Swing/Vocal/Chanson

Hawkins*, Young*, Carter*, Hodges*

Jazz Masters Of The Sax

Jimmy Slyde, Baby Laurence (2), Bunny Briggs, Chuck Green

Four Dancing Masters (Special Claquettes)

The Magic Of Vibes

You’re The Cream In My Coffee

The Jazz Singers

Earl Hines / Harry Edison, Eddie Lockjaw Davis, Oliver Jackson

I Giganti Del Jazz Vol. 95

Hard Bop/Jazz-Funk

The Smithsonian Jazz Repertory Ensemble

Duke Ellington’s Symphony In Black And Other Works

All That Good Jazz

Sign Of The Times

Soul-Jazz/Fusion/Jazz-Funk/Easy Listening/Contemporary Jazz

Coleman Hawkins

The Two Sides Of Coleman Hawkins

Stars Of Northsea Jazz 1980

The Smithsonian Jazz Repertory Ensemble

Music Of Fats Waller & James P. Johnson

Mighty Like A Rose

Joe Kennedy Jr*

Contemporary Jazz/Bop

Jazz Portrait Oscar Peterson

I Giganti Del Jazz Complete Edition

Eddie Davis* / Bill Doggett

Midnight Slows Vol.10

Eddie Lockjaw Davis

Light And Lovely

Jelly Roll Morton, The Dick Hyman Ensemble Featuring Bob Wilber

Music Of Jelly Roll Morton For Solo Piano, Trio, Quartet & Septet

Papa Jo And His Friends

André Persiany

Library Of Dynamic-Sounds Vol.4

Our Man, Papa Jo!

Keith Smith Nice Festival All Stars Featuring Johnny Mince

The Keith Smith Nice Jazz Festival All Stars

Henrik Johansen

Danish Jazz Vol. 4 - Henrik Johansen 1955-63

Festival De Jazz De San Sebastián

A Beautiful Friendship

Joe Venuti With Dick Hyman & Bucky Pizzarelli

Play It Again, Joe

Joe Muranyi And Friends

Big Joe’s Jazz

Coleman Hawkins

Sir Charles Thompson

Soul-Jazz/Jazz-Funk/Disco

Harry Sweets Edison*

50 Years Of Jazz Guitar

Explosive Drums

Earle Warren, The Anglo American Allstars

Little Jazz And The Jimmy Ryan All-Stars

Dick Wellstood and the Friends of Fats*, Jane Harvey

You Fats... Me Jane (Fats Waller Revisited)

Sneakin’ Around

The Talk Of The Town

Chicago ’N All That Jazz

Big Band/Post Bop

The Texas Twister

Grande Parade Du Jazz

Grande Parade Du Jazz

Ben Webster & ’Sweets’ Edison* / Coleman Hawkins & Clark Terry

Giants Of The Tenor Saxophone / The Genius Of Ben Webster And Coleman Hawkins

Ben Webster & ’Sweets’ Edison* / Coleman Hawkins & Clark Terry

Giants Of The Tenor Saxophone / The Genius Of Ben Webster And Coleman Hawkins

A Tribute To Duke Ellington We Love You Madly

Rahsaan Roland Kirk*

The Art Of Rahsaan Roland Kirk - The Atlantic Years

Contemporary Jazz

Coleman Hawkins

Reevaluations: The Impulse Years

Bop/Cool Jazz/Latin Jazz/Swing

Rahsaan Roland Kirk* & Al Hibbler

A Meeting Of The Times

Fusion/Soul/Funk

The Best Of Shirley Scott With Stanley Turrentine

Blue Note’s Three Decades Of Jazz - Volume 1 - 1959 - 1969

Grassella Oliphant

The Grass Is Greener

Here Comes The Whistleman (Recorded Live)

Down Beat, The Poll Winners

Tread Ye Lightly

Ellington ’65 (Hits Of The 60’s)

Quincy Jones Explores The Music Of Henry Mancini

Groovy Goodies, Vol. 2

Hard Bop/Rhythm & Blues/Soul-Jazz/Electric Blues

Woody Herman And His Herd

Aimez-vous Swing? Lieben Sie Swing? Do You Like Swing?

Coleman Hawkins

Coleman Hawkins Joue La Bossa Nova

Coleman Hawkins

Make Someone Happy

Out Of It / The Second Time Around

Soul-Jazz/Big Band/Swing

Chittlins Con Carne

Shirley Scott With Stanley Turrentine

The Soul Is Willing

Shirley Scott With Stanley Turrentine

Coleman Hawkins / Clark Terry

Back In Bean’s Bag

Kenny Burrell With Coleman Hawkins

Bluesey Burrell

Stanley Turrentine

Never Let Me Go

Coleman Hawkins

Good Old Broadway

Coleman Hawkins

Hawkins! Alive! At The Village Gate

Coleman Hawkins, Roy Eldridge, Johnny Hodges

Hawkins! Eldridge! Hodges! Alive! At The Village Gate!

The Coleman Hawkins Quartet*

The Coleman Hawkins Quartet Play The Jazz Version Of No Strings

Coleman Hawkins

Desafinado: Bossa Nova & Jazz Samba EP

Coleman Hawkins

Desafinado (Bossa Nova & Jazz Samba)

Michel Legrand And His Orchestra*

Jazz Poll Winners

And Then They Wrote...

Teddy Wilson And His Trio*

Teddy Wilson Plays The Greats

Trombone Four-In-Hand

Michel Legrand Featuring Miles Davis

Herman* & Puente*

Herman’s Heat & Puente’s Beat !

Bop/Big Band/Mambo/Cha-Cha

Kenny Baker / Bruce Turner / Don Lawson

Midnight At Nixa

Oscar Peterson Plays Pretty Album #2

Oscar Peterson Collates

Little White Lies / Lover

Robbins Nest / Exactly Like You

How High The Moon / Nameless

Rose Murphy (The Chee-Chee Girl)*

Rosetta / Gee, I Wonder What The Trouble Can Be

Kenny Burrell & The Tenor-Sax Giants

Buddy Tate, Milt Buckner, Illinois Jacquet, Eddie Lockjaw Davis, Wild Bill Davis

Grande Parade Du Jazz

Free And Oozy / Misty / Saphire Blue / East Side Drive

Johnny Guarnieri

Originals - Solo & Trio

Fats Waller Revisited

Mr. Five By Five ’Live’

Sandy Brown (3), Al Fairweather*, Dick Heckstall-Smith

Very Special Old Jazz

Jimmy McPartland, Marian McPartland, Joe Venuti

Jazz At The Top - Remembering Box Beiderbecke

Dixieland/Swing

Eight Classic Albums

Festival International De Jazz - Andernos

Get Happy / Jumpin’ With Symphony Sid

Little White Lies / Lover

Bones For The King

Harry Sweets Edison-Eddie Lockjaw Davis Quintet*

A Beautiful Friendship: Live From Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris

The Best Of Blue Note Volume 2

Vol.2 (4CD · Seven Classic Albums)

Meet Julie Wilson

Milt Buckner Featuring Jo Jones

Block Chords Parade

New Ellington Arrangements

The Best Of Blue Note

Henrik Johansen

Henrik Johansen In England

Hot Tracks For Cool Cats Vol. 2

Grande Parade Du Jazz

Town Hall Jazz Festival All Stars

On The Sunny Side Of The Street

Grande Parade du Jazz

5 Ans de Jazz Au Meridien de Paris

Grande Parade du Jazz

Coleman Hawkins And Roy Eldridge

Hawkins + Eldridge Quintet European Concert

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