John Heard

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George Duke Trio The George Duke Quartet Heard Ranier Ferguson Nick Brignola Quintet Teddy Saunders Sextet The Gene Harris Trio The Ross Tompkins Trio The Louie Bellson Quartet Baya Sonny Stitt & His West Coast Friends Louie Bellson's Magic 7 Ross Thompkins Quartet The Ross Tompkins Quartet

ex Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio, Tete Montoliu Trio, Louie Bellson Big Band, Lew Tabackin Trio, Frank Strazzeri Trio, Roger Neumann's Rather Large Band, Louie Bellson's Big Band Explosion!

American bassist and visual artist, born July 3, 1938, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

ALBUMS

Lou Levy With John Heard & Shelly Manne

I'm Old Fashioned

2018, CD, Album, RE, RM, Fresh Sound Records,

Bop/Swing/Cool Jazz

Karen Hernandez With John Heard, Lorca Hart

Life's Too Short ..Do What You Wanna Do..

2007, CD, Album, Not On Label (Karen Hernandez Self-released)

Obie Jessie, Oscar Brashear, Doug Carn, John Heard, Billy Higgins, Bennie Maupin

What Happened To Jr?

The Ross Tompkins Trio And Quartet* With Jake Hanna And John Heard Guest: Bob Cooper

In The Swing Of Things

1987, LP, Album, Famous Door

Bob Summers Quintet With Lanny Morgan, Frank Strazzeri, John Heard And Chuck Flores

1984, LP, Discovery Records,

Bubi Chen, John Heard, Albert "Tootie" Heath*

Bubi Di Amerika

1984, Cass, Album, Hidayat

G. Beverly Winston, Jr. With John Heard

It's Christmastime

1982, 12", Album, Winstar Records,

Art Pepper, John Klemmer, Johnny Griffin, Joe Farrell, Joe Henderson, Harold Land With Rhythm Section Of Stanley Cowell, Roy Haynes, Cecil McBee, John Heard

Birds & Ballads

Oscar Peterson, Louis Bellson, John Heard

The London Concert

Tete Montoliu Trio

Catalonian Nights Vol 3

1998, CD, Album, SteepleChase,

Contemporary Jazz

Tete Montoliu Trio

El Gran Señor From Catalonia

1991, 2xCD, Comp, SteepleChase

Tete Montoliu Trio

Catalonian Nights Vol. 2

The Louie Bellson Quartet

Live At Joe Segal's Jazz Showcase

Heard Ranier Ferguson

Contemporary Jazz

The Ross Tompkins Trio

Street Of Dreams

1983, LP, Famous Door

Heard Ranier Ferguson

Heard Ranier Ferguson

Louie Bellson Big Band

Big Band/Jazz-Funk

Tete Montoliu Trio

Catalonian Nights Vol.1

Teddy Saunders Sextet

1980, LP, Album, Discovery Records

Sonny Stitt & His West Coast Friends

Atlas Blues "Blow! & Ballade"

Lew Tabackin Trio

Black And Tan Fantasy

Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio

Toshiko Plays Billy Strayhorn

The George Duke Quartet

The George Duke Quartet Presented By The Jazz Workshop 1966 Of San Francisco

APPEARANCES +

Trip On Me (Soft Psych & Sunshine (1966-1969))

2022, CD, Comp, Big Beat Records,

Bubblegum/Pop Rock/Baroque Pop/Psychedelic Rock/Sunshine Pop

The Best Of The MPS Years

Jazz-Funk/Soul-Jazz/Fusion/Jazz-Rock/Latin Jazz

My Soul / Au Right

2021, 7", Single, Ltd, MPS Records, WallenBink

I Love You In Three Quarter Time

2021, CD, Album, ITI Records,

Comes Love - Lost Session 1960

If You're Not Part Of The Solution... (Soul, Politics And Spirituality In Jazz 1967 To 1975)

The Amazing Piano Of Paul Moer (Complete Trio Sessions 1957-1991)

2018, CD, Comp, Fresh Sound Records

Celestial Blues (Cosmic, Political And Spiritual Jazz 1970 To 1974)

Art Pepper & Warne Marsh

Unreleased Art: Volume 9 - At Donte’s, April 26, 1974

The Era Will Prevail (The MPS Studio Years 1973-1976)

2015, Box, Comp, S/Edition + 2xLP, Album, RE, RM, 180 + , MPS Records, Edel

Selections From: Ladies & Gentlemen ... Mr. B.B. King

2015, 2x Vinyl 180 Gram, Gatefold,

Al Jarreau And The George Duke Trio*

Live At The Half/Note 1965 Volume 1

2011, CD, Album, Dig, BPM Records (14)

Musicmasters Catalogue - Set 2

2011, 4xCD, Comp, Nimbus Records, Nimbus Records, Nimbus Records, Nimbus Records, Nimbus Records

2009, CD, Comp, RM, Boutique,

Change Is Gonna Come Sessions

2009, CDr, EP, Anti-,

2008, CD, Comp, RM, Verve Records, Universal Music Group,

Jazz-Rock/Fusion

My Soul - The Complete MPS Fusion Recordings

2008, 4xCD, Comp, RM, MPS Records,

Fusion/Jazz-Funk/Jazz-Rock

2008, CD, Album, HighNote Records, Inc.,

The Best Of Cal Tjader Live At The Monterey Jazz Festival 1958-1980

Afro-Cuban Jazz/Latin Jazz

Bill Watrous With The New Bill Watrous Quartet*

I'll Play For You!!!!!

Fusion/Jazz-Funk/Funk

Milestone Profiles

Fusion With Attitude

2006, 2x Vinyl,

John Heard & Co.

The Jazz Composer's Song Book

Almost Like Being In Jazz

Afro-Cuban Jazz/Contemporary Jazz

Pharoah Sanders

Champagne Lounge (Weinwelt Edition)

2004, 2xCD, Comp, Ayia Napa,

Bossa Nova/Swing/Latin Jazz/Post Bop

The J.J. Johnson Memorial Album

2003, CD, Comp, RM, Prestige,

2003, 4xCD, Comp, Lon, Warner Jazz France,

Swing/Cool Jazz/Bop/Contemporary Jazz/Rhythm & Blues

2003, 2xCD, Comp, Ayia Napa,

Lounge/Bossa Nova/Acid Jazz/Latin Jazz/Jazz-Funk

Ella Fitzgerald

S(w)ings For Lovers - The Finest Ballads Of Her Pablo Years

2003, CD, Comp, RM, Original Jazz Classics, Pablo Records, Fantasy

Live At 14 Below

2002, 2xCD, Comp, Concord Jazz,

Larry Vuckovich

Blue Balkan: Then & Now

2002, CD, Album, Tetrachord Music,

Cuisine Nationale: Brazil

2001, CD, Comp, RM, ZYX Music,

Bossa Nova/Latin Jazz

Lionel Hampton & His Big Band With Ernie Andrews, Gerald Wiggins Trio*, Harry "Sweets" Edison*, Teddy Edwards

Live At The John Anson Ford Ampitheatre

2001, 2xCD, Album, Phillip Records,

Bop/Big Band/Swing

The Best Of The Pacific Jazz Years

Stormy Monday Blues

Bop/Contemporary Jazz

Vibraphone Jazz

2000, CD, Comp, Fantasy, ZYX Music,

Soul-Jazz/Smooth Jazz

The Frank Strazzeri Trio*

Funk & Esoteric

2000, CD, Album, Fresh Sound Records

Between Or Beyond The Black Forest 2

Soul-Jazz/Fusion/Jazz-Funk

Small Band Swing Jazz

Dave Brubeck, Ahmad Jamal, Oscar Peterson, George Shearing

Playing Our Songs

1999, CD, Comp, Telarc

Jazz Samba Vol. 2 - The Finest In Samba And Bossa Nova

1999, CD, Comp, ZYX Music,

Bossa Nova/Samba

Diane Witherspoon

You May Never Know

1999, CD, Album, Koch Jazz,

Between Or Beyond The Black Forest

Jazz-Funk/Bossa Nova/Big Band/Jazz-Rock/Samba

Let The Good Times Roll (The Music Of Louis Jordan)

Jazz For The Quiet Times

Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis

Complete Atlas Years

Louie Bellson's Magic 7

Bobby Hutcherson

Count Basie Orchestra With The New York Voices

Live At Manchester Craftsmen's Guild

1996, CD, MCG Jazz,

Jay Jay Johnson

1996, CD, Comp, Musica Jazz, Fantasy

The Paul Moer Trio

Plays The Music Of Elmo Hope

1996, CD, Album, Fresh Sound Records

The Best Of Black Jazz Records 1971-1976

Soul-Jazz/Jazz-Funk

Kenny Burrell, LaMont Johnson

1995, CD, Album, Masterscores,

Frank Strazzeri

Thanks For You, A Tribute To Bud Powell

1994, LP, Album, Interplay Records

1994, CD, Album, Audiophile (2),

Easy Chair Jazz

1994, CD, Album, Audiophile (2),

The Great Jazz Pianists

The Milestone Years

1994, 8x CD, Box Set,

Hard Bop/Post Bop/Jazz-Funk/Fusion/Modal

Talkin' Jazz Volume 2 (More Themes From The Black Forest)

Soul-Jazz/Hard Bop/Fusion/Modal

Obie Jessie, Oscar Brashear, Doug Carn, Billy Higgins, Bennie Maupin

What Happened To JR?

Talkin' Jazz (Themes From The Black Forest)

Bossa Nova/Soul-Jazz/Jazz-Funk/Modal/Latin Jazz

Chicago Revisited / Live At Joe Segal's Jazz Showcase

Raphael Paris And Flexx

Raphael Paris And Flexx

1992, Cass, Album, Lion Records (3)

1991, CD, Comp, Delos, Delos

Count Basie Big Band

Frank Morgan, Bud Shank

Make Your Own Fun

Bop/Cool Jazz/Hard Bop

Modern Jazz Piano Forum - Interplay Special Volume 1

1990, CD, Comp, art union,

Bop/Post Bop/Hard Bop

Jack Wilson Trio

1988, CD, Comp, RE, Discovery Records,

Django Volume I

1988, CD, ITI Records

1987, LP, Album, Olive Branch Records

Bud Shank - Bill Perkins

Serious Swingers

1987, Cass, Contemporary Records

Bud Shank - Bill Perkins

Serious Swingers

Cool Jazz/Bop/Modal

Buddy Montgomery

Basie And Friends

By George: George Cables Plays The Music Of George Gershwin

The Fabulous Diamonds

You're Everything To Me

1986, 7", Linic

Bobby Hutcherson

The Count Basie Kansas City Septem*

Mostly Blues And Some Others

Count Basie, Oscar Peterson

Yessir, That's My Baby

The Ross Tompkins Trio And Quartet*

L.A. After Dark

The Bud Shank Quartet*

That Old Feeling

Full Court Press

Jazz-Funk/Soul-Jazz

Joe Williams & Friends June 1985 - I Just Want To Sing

Phantom Of The City

Swing Low Sweet Clarinet

1984, LP, Album, Camard,

The Ross Tompkins Trio & Quartet*

Claude Williamson

Count Basie And His Orchestra*, Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson, Zoot Sims And Joe Pass

Jazz Masters Presents Basie & Friends on Pablo

1983, 4xLP, Album + Box, Comp, Pablo Records, Pablo Live,

Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis

Jazz At The Philharmonic, 1983

Aurex Jazz Festival '80 Live Special

Swing/Vocal/Hard Bop/Contemporary Jazz

Roger Neumann's Rather Large Band

Introducing Roger Neumann's Rather Large Band

Cool Jazz/Big Band

Count Basie Meets Oscar Peterson

The Timekeepers

Pharoah Sanders

Heart Is A Melody

1982, LP, Album, Ter, Galaxy,

Post Bop/Modal/Swing

The Kid's Got Ears

1982, LP, Jazzizz

Dick Cary's Septet With Bob Havens, Tommy Newsom & Ross Tompkins

California Doings

1981, LP, Album, Concord Jazz,

Art Pepper, John Klemmer, Johnny Griffin And Joe Henderson

Ballads By Four

The Best Of Ahmad Jamal

Soul/Modal/Fusion

Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson

I Want A Little Girl

Bop/Soul-Jazz/Vocal

The Barone Brothers

Blues & Other Happy Moments

5 Birds And A Monk

Live At Otter Crest

Live At Donte's

Larry Vuckovich Guest Artists Bobby Hutcherson, Eric Golub

1980, LP, Album, Inner City Records,

The Best Of Harry Edison

Birds & Ballads

The Best Of Louie Bellson

John Haley Sims*, Harry Sweets Edison*

Zoot Sims Plays Duke Ellington

Count Basie & Oscar Peterson

Cool Jazz/Swing/Bossa Nova/Latin Jazz

Meets The Tadpoles

1979, LP, Album, Insights,

1979, LP, Album, Discovery Records

Shelly Manne & His Men

The Manne We Love

Post Bop/Cool Jazz

Great Expectations

Bill Watrous Combo Featuring Danny Stiles

Watrous In Hollywood

The Silent Partner

Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band

Post Bop/Big Band

Nick Brignola Quintet Featuring Bill Watrous

Bill Reichenbach (2), Andy Mackintosh

1978, LP, Album, Promo, Discomate

Louie Bellson & The "Explosion" Orchestra*

The Two Quartets

Ella Fitzgerald & Cole Porter

Oscar Peterson And Count Basie

Satch And Josh.....Again

Fusion/Contemporary Jazz

The Pablo Collection

1978, 2x Vinyl Gatefold

Electric Blues/Fusion/Jazz-Rock/Latin Jazz

Lew Tabackin / Warne Marsh

Post Bop/Jazz-Rock/Fusion

Blue Mitchell Quintet*

Piano Power Vol.2 (A Panorama Of Jazz Piano Styles)

1976, LP, Comp, MPS Records, BASF,

1976, Cass, Comp, Liberty, Emi, EMI,

Jazz-Rock/Fusion

Edison's Lights

Recorded Live At "Oil Can Harry's"

Steppin Out With A Dream

Canteloupe Island

1976, Vinyl Indianapolis Pressing,

1975, LP, Album, P.Z. Records

Fusion/Latin Jazz

Fusion/Latin Jazz

Faces In Reflection

Soul-Jazz/Jazz-Funk/Fusion

Cal Tjader And Charlie Byrd

1974, Vinyl PRC Pressing,

Fusion/Jazz-Funk/Funk

Piano Power! (A Panorama Of Jazz Piano Styles)

Bridge Into The New Age

Smooth Jazz/Latin Jazz/Bossa Nova

Luis Gasca Featuring Joe Henderson

Born To Love You

Soul-Jazz/Fusion/Jazz-Funk

Puttin' It Together

Afro-Cuban Jazz/Contemporary Jazz

1973, LP, Comp, Gat, SMJ, Corona (6), MPS Records, BASF, Stern Musik,

Post Bop/Fusion/Jazz-Rock/Free Improvisation/Psychedelic Rock/Blues Rock

Post Bop/Fusion/Jazz-Rock/Free Improvisation/Psychedelic Rock/Blues Rock

The Inner Source

1973, 2x Vinyl,

Soul-Jazz/Afro-Cuban Jazz/Fusion/Jazz-Funk/Modal/Jazz-Rock

Last Bolero In Berkeley

Soul-Jazz/Jazz-Funk/Latin Jazz

Kellee Patterson

1972, 2xLP, Comp, Gat, United Artists Records, United Artists Records, United Artists Records,

Free Jazz/Free Improvisation/Fusion

Live At The Funky Quarters

Afro-Cuban Jazz/Contemporary Jazz

The Third Wave Arranged And Conducted By George Duke

Vocal/Soul-Jazz

I've Got A Right To Sing

Save The Country

Soul-Jazz/Post Bop

The Jean-Luc Ponty Experience* With The George Duke Trio*

The Jean-Luc Ponty Experience With The George Duke Trio

The Odd Squad (4), The Soulistics

7", Al-Pa Records

The Incredible!...

LP, Album, Nilva Records

Louie Bellson Big Band Explosion*

Live At Ronnie Scott's London

1995, CD, Galaxy,

Cool Jazz/Post Bop

Pablo Records In-Store Sampler Vol. IV

LP, Promo, Smplr, Pablo Records,

Let The Good Times Roll (The Music Of Louis Jordan)

The Jean-Luc Ponty Experience* With The George Duke Trio*

The Jean-Luc Ponty Experience

2xCDr, Unofficial, Jazztime (3), Jazztime (3)

Count Basie, Zoot Sims

Zoot Sims Plays Duke Ellington