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Gerry Hemingway Quartet Uri Caine Ensemble Marty Ehrlich's Dark Woods Ensemble Barry Altschul Trio BassDrumBone Slickaphonics Dennis Gonzalez NY Quartet Ray Anderson Quartet Marilyn Crispell Trio Samo Salamon NYC Quintet Corporate Art Simon Nabatov Trio Joe Rosenberg Quartet Anthony Davis Quartet Ivo Perelman Quartet Paul Dunmall Sun Quartet Uri Caine Trio Ricardo Gallo's Tierra De Nadie Benoît Delbecq Unit Open Loose Don Cherry Quintet Benoît Delbecq And Fred Hersch Double Trio Oliver Lake Big Band Beate Kittsteiner International Jazz Quintet Obara Special Quartet Ensemble Kolossus Nasheet Waits Equality House Of Payne Don Cherry's Nu Throw A Glass Gordon Grdina's The Marrow David Ades & Friends François Houle 4 Scott Neumann Neu3 Trio Quinsin Nachoff's Ethereal Trio Misako Kano Trio

ex Gerry Hemingway Quintet, Dewey Redman Quartet, The Barry Altschul Quartet, Michael Moore Trio, Michael Moore Quintet, Simon Nabatov Quintet, Michael Moore Quartet, Franco D'Andrea Quartet, The Tri-Centric Orchestra, Samo Salamon Quartet

American jazz bassist and composer, born October 1, 1950 in New Brunswick, NJ, USA.

ALBUMS


Ivo Perelman / Mark Helias / Tom Rainey
Truth Seeker
2024, CD, Album, Fundacja Słuchaj!
Aurora Nealand, Mark Helias, Tim Berne
Live At The 188 Club
2024, 5xFile, FLAC, Screwgun Records
Bloom* / Helias* / Previte*
2·3·23
2023, 11xFile, FLAC, Album, Radio Legs Music, Rank Hipocri$y
Matthew Shipp - Mark Helias
The New Syntax
2022, CD, Album, Thr, Rogueart
Jane Ira Bloom, Mark Helias
See Our Way
2022, 13xFile, FLAC, Album, Radio Legs Music, ,
Free Improvisation/Free Jazz
Gordon Grdina* / Mark Helias / Matthew Shipp
Pathways
2022
Jane Ira Bloom, Mark Helias
Some Kind Of Tomorrow
2021, 11xFile, FLAC, Album, Radio Legs Music
Mark Helias, Tim Berne
Not For The Multitudes
2021, File, FLAC, Radio Legs Music, ,
Free Improvisation/Free Jazz
Mark Helias, Tim Berne
Blood From A Stone
2020, 5xFile, FLAC, Album, Radio Legs Music
Alessi* / Harris* / Helias* / Previte*
Sequestered
2020, File, FLAC, Radio Legs Music
Dewey Redman, Mark Helias
Pillars & Columns
2020, 5xFile, FLAC, Album, Radio Legs Music
Matthew Shipp / Mark Helias / Gordon Grdina*
Skin And Bones
2019, CD, Album, Not Two Records
Rob Burke, Tony Malaby, Mark Helias
Head Under Water
2018, CD, Album, FMR Records (2)
Rob Burke, George Lewis, Paul Grabowsky, Mark Helias
Shift
2017, CD, Album, FMR Records (2), ,
Free Improvisation/Free Jazz
Gordon Grdina* · Mark Helias · Kenton Loewen · Tony Malaby
No Difference
2013, CD, Album, Songlines Recordings
Jon Irabagon, Mark Helias, Barry Altschul
It Takes All Kinds
2013
Sophia Domancich, Mark Helias, Andrew Cyrille
Courtepointe - Live At The Sunside
2012, CD, Album, Marge
Terrence McManus / Mark Helias / Gerry Hemingway
Transcendental Numbers
2011, CD, Album, Ltd, NoBusiness Records, ,
Free Improvisation
Julien Wilson, Stephen Magnusson, Barney McAll, Mark Helias, Jim Black
Kaleidoscopic
2009, CD, Album, Jazzhead, ,
Contemporary Jazz/Post Bop/Avant-garde Jazz
Michael Moore (4), Alex Maguire, Mark Helias, Han Bennink
White Widow
2001, CD, Album, Ramboy Recordings, Ramboy Recordings, ,
Free Jazz/Contemporary Jazz/Free Improvisation
Mark Dresser / Mark Helias
The Marks Brothers
2000, CD, Album, W.E.R.F.
D. D'Agaro* • M. Helias* • U.T.Gandhi*
Gentle Ben
1999, CD, Album, Nota, ,
Free Jazz/Contemporary Jazz
Mark Helias
Fictionary
1998, CD, Album, GM Recordings, ,
Free Jazz/Contemporary Jazz
Mark Helias
Loopin' The Cool
1995
Mark Helias
Attack The Future
1992, CD, Album, Enja Records, Enja Records
Christy Doran > Mark Helias > Bobby Previte > Gary Thomas
Corporate Art
1991
Mark Helias
Desert Blue
1989, ,
Contemporary Jazz/Fusion/Free Funk
Mark Helias
The Current Set
1987
Ray Anderson - Mark Helias - Gerry Hemingway
You Be
1986
Mark Helias - Gerry Hemingway - Dewey Redman - Tim Berne - Herb Robertson
Split Image
1985, ,
Post Bop/Contemporary Jazz/Free Jazz
Franco D'Andrea / Barry Altschul / Mark Helias / Tino Tracanna
No Idea Of Time
1984, ,
Contemporary Jazz
Ray Anderson, Mark Helias, Gerry Hemingway
Oahspe
1979
NU*
Live In Glasgow
2021, 6xFile, WAV, Album, Radio Legs Music
Knuckleball
Knuckleball
2017, CD, Album, Gold Bolus Recordings, ,
Avant-garde Jazz
David Ades
A Life In A Day
2015, CD, Album, Lionsharecords
Ricardo Gallo's Tierra De Nadie
The Great Fine Line
2011, CD, Album, Clean Feed, ,
Free Improvisation
Tony Malaby
Paloma Recio
2009, CD, Album, New World Records, ,
Avant-garde Jazz/Free Jazz/Contemporary Jazz
Open Loose
Strange Unison
2008, CD, Album, Radio Legs Music
Mark Helias' Open Loose*
Atomic Clock
2006, CD, Album, Radio Legs Music
Tony Malaby
Sabino
2000, CD, Album, Arabesque Jazz, ,
Free Jazz/Avant-garde Jazz
Marie McAuliffe's ArKsextet
Refractions (Marie McAuliffe's ArKsextet Plays The Music Of Burt Bacharach)
1998, CD, Album, Avant, ,
Modern/Contemporary/Easy Listening
Mark Dresser
Banquet
1997, CD, Album, Tzadik, ,
Contemporary Jazz
Jerome Harris
Hidden In Plain View
1995, CD, Album, New World Records, ,
Post Bop/Free Jazz
Bobby Previte's Empty Suits
Slay The Suitors
1994, CD, Album, Avant
Andy Laster
Hydra
1994, CD, Album, Sound Aspects Records, Sound Aspects Records
Ray Anderson
Every One Of Us
1992, ,
Contemporary Jazz
Lindsey Horner
Never No More
1991, CD, Album, OPEN MINDS, OPEN MINDS, OPEN MINDS
Ray Anderson
Wishbone
1991, ,
Contemporary Jazz
Ray Anderson
What Because
1990
BassDrumBone
The Long Road
2016, 2xCD, Album, Auricle Records
Mark Helias Open Loose*
The Signal Maker
2015
BassDrumBone
The Other Parade
2011, CD, Album, Clean Feed
BassDrumBone
The Line Up
2006, CD, Album, Clean Feed
Mark Helias' Open Loose*
Verbs Of Will
2003, CD, Album, Radio Legs Music, ,
Free Jazz/Contemporary Jazz
Simon Nabatov Trio
Assemblage
2025, CD, Album, Fundacja Słuchaj!, Fundacja Słuchaj!, ,
Avant-garde Jazz/Free Jazz/Free Improvisation
Ivo Perelman Quartet
Water Music
2024, CD, Album, Rogueart
BassDrumBone
Afternoon
2024, CD, Album, Auricle Records, ,
Avant-garde Jazz/Free Jazz
François Houle 4
Recoder
2020, CD, Songlines Recordings, ,
Free Jazz/Free Improvisation
Nasheet Waits Equality
Between Nothingness And Infinity
2016, CD,
Beate Kittsteiner International Jazz Quintet
Dream Of A Clown
2015, CD, Album, Not On Label, ,
Contemporary Jazz
Benoît Delbecq And Fred Hersch Double Trio
Fun House
2013, CD, Album, Songlines Recordings, ,
Contemporary Jazz
Scott Neumann Neu3 Trio
Blessed
2013, CD, Album, Origin Records
David Ades & Friends
A Glorious Uncertainty
2011, CD, Album, Vitamin (2)
Open Loose
Explicit - Live At The Sunset
2011
Obara Special Quartet
Four
2010, CD, Album, Ars Cameralis Silesiae Superiors
Paul Dunmall Sun Quartet
Ancient And Future Airs
2009, CD, Album, Clean Feed
Samo Salamon NYC Quintet
Government Cheese
2007, CD, Album, Fresh Sound New Talent
Dennis González NY Quartet*
Dance Of The Soothsayer’s Tongue (Live At Tonic)
2007, CD, Album, Clean Feed, ,
Free Jazz
Samo Salamon Quartet
Two Hours
2006, CD, Album, Fresh Sound New Talent, ,
Contemporary Jazz
Gerry Hemingway Quartet
The Whimbler
2005, CD, Album, Clean Feed, ,
Free Jazz
Benoît Delbecq Unit
Phonetics
2005, SACD, Hybrid, Multichannel, Album, Songlines Recordings
Marilyn Crispell Trio
Storyteller
2004, ,
Contemporary Jazz
Dennis Gonzalez NY Quartet
NY Midnight Suite
2004, ,
Free Jazz/Avant-garde Jazz
Gerry Hemingway Quartet
Devils Paradise
2003, CD, Album, Clean Feed
Oliver Lake Big Band
Cloth
2003, CD, Album, Passin' Thru Records, ,
Contemporary Jazz/Big Band/Post Bop/Avant-garde Jazz
Joe Rosenberg Quartet
Quicksand
2003, CD, Album, Black Saint, ,
Free Jazz
Joe Rosenberg Quartet
Do What We Must Do
2002, CD, Album, CIMP
BassDrumBone
March Of Dimes
2002, CD, Album, DATA Records (3), DATA Records (3)
Simon Nabatov Quintet
The Master And Margarita
2001, 2xCD, Album, Leo Records
Simon Nabatov Trio
Sneak Preview
2000, CD, Album, hatOLOGY, ,
Contemporary Jazz/Free Improvisation
Ray Anderson Quartet
Bonemeal
2000
BassDrumBone
Cooked To Perfection
1999, CD, Album, Auricle Records, ,
Free Jazz
Gerry Hemingway Quartet
Johnny's Corner Song
1998, CD, Album, Auricle Records, ,
Contemporary Jazz/Free Jazz
Michael Moore Trio
Bering
1998, CD, Album, Ramboy Recordings, Ramboy Recordings, Ramboy Recordings
Open Loose
Come Ahead Back...
1998, CD, Album, Koch Jazz
BassDrumBone
(Hence The Reason)
1997, CD, Album, Enja Records
Michael Moore Trio
Chicoutimi
1994, CD, Album, Ramboy Recordings, Ramboy Recordings
String Trio Of New York
Octagon
1994, CD, Album, Black Saint
Simon Nabatov Trio
Tough Customer
1993, CD, ,
Contemporary Jazz
Michael Moore Quintet
Home Game
1992, CD, Album, Ramboy Recordings
Simon Nabatov Trio
For All The Marbles Suite
1990, CD, Album, ASP Records (5)
BassDrumBone
Wooferlo
1989
Slickaphonics
Live
1988, ,
Jazz-Rock/Jazz-Funk
Gerry Hemingway Quintet
Outerbridge Crossing
1987
Slickaphonics
Check Your Head At The Door
1986, ,
Fusion/Jazz-Funk
Slickaphonics
Don't Jump
1985
Slickaphonics
Humatomic Energy
1985
Slickaphonics
Modern Life
1984
The Barry Altschul Quartet
Irina
1983, ,
Post Bop
Dewey Redman Quartet
The Struggle Continues
1982, ,
Post Bop/Contemporary Jazz
Slickaphonics
Wow Bag
1982, ,
Jazz-Funk/Funk
Barry Altschul Trio
Brahma
1980, Vinyl, ,
Free Jazz
Barry Altschul Trio
Somewhere Else
1979, LP, Album, Moers Music
Anthony Davis Quartet
Song For The Old World
1978
Don Cherry Quintet
Live In Amsterdam 1987
2022
Uri Caine Ensemble
Primal Light at Tempel Synagogue
2005, 2xCDr, Unofficial, OMX,
Marilyn Crispell Trio
Storyteller
2004

APPEARANCES +


Mark Helias
Roof Rights
2020, 7xFile, FLAC, Album, Radio Legs Music, ,
Free Jazz/Contemporary Jazz/Avant-garde Jazz
Mark Helias
Available Light
2020, 12xFile, FLAC, Album, Radio Legs Music
Mark Helias
Music For Big Band
2020, 5xFile, FLAC, Album, Radio Legs Music, ,
Contemporary Jazz
Erik Friedlander
Dirty Boxing / Floating City
2024, 2xCD, Album, Not On Label (Erik Friedlander Self-released)
Gordon Grdina's The Marrow With Fathieh Honari
Gordon Grdina's The Marrow With Fathieh Honari
2024, CD, Album, Attaboygirl Records
Erik Friedlander
A Queens' Firefly
2022, CD, Album, Skipstone Records
Jane Ira Bloom
Picturing The Invisible: Focus 1
2022
Tony Malaby
Turnpike Diaries Volume 1
2021, 2xFile, FLAC, Not On Label (Tony Malaby Self-released), ,
Free Jazz
Gordon Grdina's The Marrow
Safar-e-Daroon
2020, CD, Album, Songlines Recordings
Russ Lossing
Mood Suite
2020, CD, Album, SteepleChase, ,
Free Jazz
Gerry Hemingway Quintet & Quartet*
Outerbridge Crossing Live
2020, 4xFile, FLAC, Auricle Records
Open Loose
The Third Proposition
2020, 9xFile, FLAC, Radio Legs Music, ,
Free Jazz/Contemporary Jazz
Michael Moore (4), Simon Nabatov
Ancient Sorrow
2020, 11xFile, FLAC, Ramboy Recordings, Ramboy Recordings, ,
Contemporary Jazz
Kirk Knuffke
Brightness Live In Amsterdam
2020, LP, The Royal Potato Family
Uri Caine
Catbird
2020, CD, Album, 816 Music,
Quinsin Nachoff
Pivotal Arc
2020
The Throw*
First Sip
2019, File, FLAC, Not On Label (Erik Friedlander Self-released)
Gordon Grdina's The Marrow
Ejdeha
2018, CD, Album, Songlines Recordings
Lorraine Baker's Eden
Lorraine Baker's Eden
2018, CD, Album, Spark Label, ,
Contemporary Jazz/Post Bop
Erik Friedlander
Artemisia
2018
Tyshawn Sorey
Pillars
2018
Quinsin Nachoff's Ethereal Trio
Quinsin Nachoff's Ethereal Trio
2017, CD, Album, Whirlwind Recordings,
Jane Ira Bloom
Wild Lines: Improvising Emily Dickinson
2017, 2xCD, Album, Outline (2),
Various
Jazzonze + Festival Lausanne 30 Ans De Live
2017, 2xCD, Album, Dig, Espace 2, ,
Free Improvisation/Contemporary Jazz
Anthony Braxton
Trillium J
2016, 4xCD, Album + Blu-ray + Box, New Braxton House, ,
Contemporary/Opera
The Uri Caine Trio*
Calibrated Thickness
2016, CD, Album, 816 Music
Roswell Rudd, Heather Masse
August Love Song
2016, CD, Album, Red House Records
Michael Formanek, Ensemble Kolossus
The Distance
2016
Jane Ira Bloom
Early Americans
2016,
Rob Burke
Power of the Idea
2015, CD, Jazzhead
Kirk Knuffke
Arms & Hands
2015
Various
Now's The Time III: The Best In Contemporary Jazz From France & Luxembourg
2014, CD, Album, Comp, Babel Label, ,
Contemporary Jazz
Jon Irabagon Trio
It Takes All Kinds
2014
Orrin Evans
"...It Was Beauty"
2013, CD, Album, Criss Cross Jazz
Anthony Braxton
Quintet (Moers) 1977 – 05.30
2013
Caine* / Gershwin*
Rhapsody In Blue
2013
Marcel Khalifé & Mahmoud Darwish*
سقوط القمر Fall Of The Moon
2012, 2xCD, Album, Nagam Records, ,
Contemporary/Folk
Chester Biscardi
In Time's Unfolding (Chamber and Instrumental Music)
2011
Adolphson-Falk
101010
2010, 4xCD, Album, RM + Box, Comp, Playground Music Scandinavia, ,
Synth-pop
Jane Ira Bloom
Wingwalker
2010, CD, Album, Enh, Outline (2)
Dewey Redman, David Bond (3), Ed Blackwell, Marshall Allen
The Key Of Life
2009
Ralph Alessi And Modular Theatre
Open Season
2008, CD, Album, RKM Music
Jane Ira Bloom
Mental Weather
2008, CD, Album, Enh, Outline (2)
H2S2, Hendriksen*, Hellmüller*, Stulz*, Sisera*
Dance In Town
2008, CD, Album, meta records (3)
Dejan Terzić / Underground
Continuum
2008, CD, Album, Gramofon, ,
Contemporary Jazz
Various
November Music 2007
2007, CD, Comp, November Music, ,
Contemporary/Classical/Contemporary Jazz
Tony Malaby / William Parker / Nasheet Waits
Tamarindo
2007, ,
Free Improvisation
Dejan Terzić / Underground
Underground
2006, CD, Album, Gramofon
Quinsin Nachoff
Magic Numbers
2006, SACD, Hybrid, Multichannel, Album, Songlines Recordings,
Enrico Rava Quintet Featuring Massimo Urbani
Flat Fleet
2005, 2xCD, Album, RM, Philology, ,
Contemporary Jazz/Free Jazz
Dylan Van Der Schyff
The Definition Of A Toy
2005, SACD, Hybrid, Multichannel, Album, Songlines Recordings, ,
Free Jazz/Contemporary Jazz/Free Improvisation
Various
This Is Storehouse Music Volume 1 & 2
2005, 2xCD, Comp, VHS Leer,
Peter Herbert
Naked Bass
2005, CD, Album, Buzo Records,
Various WUSB 90.1 FM, Affiliates*
Not Just Another Pretty Voice
2003, CD, Album, Sonic Underground
Various
East Meets West At The Blue Note For The Support Of NYC
2002, CD, Monday Records (5)
Marty Ehrlich
The Long View
2002
Don Cherry
Live At The Bracknell Jazz Festival, 1986
2002, ,
Free Jazz/Contemporary Jazz
Von Freeman
The Improvisor
2002, ,
Post Bop
Mark Helias' Open Loose*
New School
2001, CD, Album, Enja Records
Anthony Braxton
Quintet (Basel) 1977
2001, ,
Free Jazz/Free Improvisation
Yusef Lateef & Adam Rudolph
Beyond The Sky
2000, CD, Album, Meta Records (2), ,
Contemporary Jazz/Avant-garde Jazz
Various
Jazz Cooks
2000, CD, Comp, S/Edition, Enja Records,
Operazone
The Redesign
2000
Misako Kano
3 Purple Circles
1999, CD, Album, Jazz Focus, ,
Contemporary Jazz/Post Bop
Marty Ehrlich's Dark Woods Ensemble
Sojourn
1999, ,
Contemporary Jazz
Marty Ehrlich's Dark Woods Ensemble
Live Wood
1997, 2xCD, Album, Music & Arts
Various
Blue Note Plays Sinatra
1996, ,
Swing/Bop
Various
State Of The Union
1996, 2x CD, ,
Free Jazz/Avantgarde/Experimental
Franco D'Andrea
No Idea Of Time
1996
Marty Ehrlich's Dark Woods Ensemble
Just Before The Dawn
1995, CD, Album, New World Records, CounterCurrents, ,
Free Jazz/Contemporary Jazz
Lawrence D. "Butch" Morris*
Testament: A Conduction Collection - Conduction 38, In Freud's Garden / Conduction 39, Thread Waxing Space / Conduction 40, Thread Waxing Space
1995, CD, Album, New World Records, CounterCurrents
Lawrence D. "Butch" Morris*
Testament: A Conduction Collection
1995, Box, Comp, Ltd + 10xCD, New World Records, CounterCurrents
Various
The Adventure Continues ...
1995, CD, Comp, Promo, Enja Records,
Joe Lovano
Rush Hour
1995, ,
Free Jazz/Contemporary Jazz
Ivo Perelman
Man Of The Forest
1994, CD, Album, GM Recordings, Inc.
Various
Almost Normal
1994, CD, ,
Free Jazz/Contemporary Jazz
Ed Blackwell
Ed Blackwell Project Vol.2: What It Be Like?
1994
Jay Hoggard
In The Spirit
1993, CD, Album, Muse Records
David Taylor
Past Tells
1993, CD, Album, New World Records, ,
Contemporary Jazz/Contemporary
Ed Blackwell
Ed Blackwell Project Vol.1: What It Is?
1993, ,
Contemporary Jazz
Various
Jim Payne's New York Funk Vol.1
1993, ,
Funk
Anthony Davis
X, The Life And Times Of Malcolm X, An Opera In Three Acts
1992, 2x CD, ,
Contemporary Jazz/Contemporary
Peter Herborn
Traces Of Trane
1992, ,
Contemporary Jazz
The J.B. Horns*
Funky Good Time / Live
1992, ,
Funk
Franco D'Andrea
Sei Brani Inediti
1991, LP, Album, Red Record, Musica Jazz
David Lopato
Inside Outside
1991, CD, Album, Enemy Records
Bobby Previte
Music Of The Moscow Circus
1991, ,
Soundtrack
Various
The Jazz Sampler
1988, CD, Smplr, Enja Records, ,
Contemporary Jazz
Jerome Harris
Algorithms
1986, LP, Album, Minor Music
Anthony Davis
Return From Space (Wonder Nonfiction)
1985, ,
Contemporary Jazz/Soundtrack/Avant-garde Jazz
Jim Pepper
Comin' And Goin'
1984
Ray Anderson
Right Down Your Alley
1984
Adolphson-Falk
Över Tid Och Rum
1984, Vinyl, ,
Synth-pop
Franco D'Andrea
My One And Only Love
1983
Various
Re:Source, Masters From Gramavision
1983
Anthony Braxton
Six Compositions: Quartet
1982, ,
Avant-garde Jazz
Dewey Redman
Soundsigns
1981, LP, Album, Galaxy, ,
Free Jazz/Post Bop/Contemporary Jazz
Dave Schnitter*
Glowing
1981, Vinyl, ,
Hard Bop
Anthony Davis
Epistēmē
1981
Gerry Hemingway
Solo Works
1981
Charlie Shoemake
Blue Shoe
1980
Various
Jazz Na Koncertnom Podiju Vol. 3
1979, LP, Album, Jugoton,
Hard Bop/Free Jazz
Dewey Redman
Musics
1979
Gerry Hemingway
Kwambe
1978
Various
Jazziz On Disc - Summer 2015 - This, That & The Other Vol. 1
2015, 2xCD, Comp, Ltd, Promo, Jazziz,
Various
Ellipsis - Le Tendenze Degli Anni Ottanta
2001, CD, Comp, High Tide, Musica Jazz,
Various
Jazz Sous Les Pommiers - Coutances 27 Mai-3 Juin 2000
2000, CD, Comp, Promo, Jazz Sous Les Pommiers, ,
Contemporary Jazz
Bill Laswell, Operazone
The Redesign
2000, ,
Modern Classical