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Pianist - keyboardist - producer - arranger - songwriter.

Born on September 3, 1949 in New York, U.S.A. Died on April 6, 2020.
Onaje meaning the Sensitive One.
ASCAP lists his song titles under both Onaje Allen Gumbs and Allan Gumbs.


ALBUMS


Onaje Allan Gumbs Featuring Mem Nahadr
Two, The Top
2017, 5xFile, WAV, Album, Commercial Free Jazz,
Onaje Allan Gumbs
Just Like Yesterday
2015, CD, Cheetah Records,
Onaje Allan Gumbs
Sack Full Of Dreams
2007, CD, Album, 18th & Vine
Onaje Allan Gumbs
Return To Form
2003, CD, Album, Half Note Records, Inc.
Onaje Allan Gumbs
Remember Their Innocence
1999, CD, ,
Contemporary Jazz
Onaje Allan Gumbs
Dare To Dream
1991, CD, Album, Zebra Records, MCA Records, ,
Smooth Jazz/Contemporary Jazz
Onaje Allan Gumbs
Dare To Dream
1990
Onaje Allan Gumbs
Quiet Passion
1988, 12", Promo, MCA Records, Zebra Records
Onaje Allan Gumbs
Didn't I Blow Your Mind (This Time)
1988,
Onaje Allan Gumbs
That Special Part Of Me
1988
Onaje Allan Gumbs
That Special Part Of Me
1988
Onaje Allan Gumbs
Onaje
1977
Koko Jones
Who's That Lady?
2014, CD, Motéma
Gregory Generet
(re) generet-ion
2012, CD, Album, Monsieur Music Records
Lou Watson
It Doesn't Matter
2003, CD, Album, Village Notz Music,
Stanley Jordan
Bolero
1994
Vanessa Rubin
Pastiche
1993
Vanessa Rubin
Soul Eyes
1992, CD, ,
Vocal/Ballad/Bop/Swing
Will Downing
I Go Crazy
1991
Will Downing
A Dream Fulfilled
1991
Various
A Merry Jazzmas
1991, ,
Post Bop/Vocal/Contemporary Jazz/Holiday
Current Events
Current Events
1989, ,
Fusion/Jazz-Funk
Will Downing
Come Together As One
1989, Vinyl, ,
Swingbeat/Soul/Disco
Marlena Shaw
Love Is In Flight
1988, 12", Single, Promo, Polydor, Verve Records
Marlena Shaw
Love Is In Flight
1988, ,
Jazz-Funk/Soul/Vocal
Kevin Eubanks
The Heat Of Heat
1987
John Blake
Adventures Of The Heart
1987,
Billy Cobham
Powerplay
1986, ,
Fusion
Crystal Clear
(Caught Between) A Rock And A Hard Place
1983
Theadora Ifudu
This Time Around (Twice As Much)
1981, Vinyl, ,
Soul/Funk/Disco
Norman Connors
You Are My Starship
1976, Vinyl Goldisc pressing, ,
Soul-Jazz/Soul
Lance Webb
Life's Charade
Phyllis Hyman
Ultimate
Billy Cobham
Billy's Best Hits
1988
Various
New GRP Digital Sampler Volume 3
1986, LP, Promo, Smplr, GRP, ,
Fusion
Woody Shaw Quintet
At Onkel Pö's Carnegie Hall Hamburg 1979 Vol.1
2019
Avery Sharpe Trio
Avery Sharpe Trio - Live
2010, CD, Album, Dig, JKNM Records
Avery Sharpe Trio
Autumn Moonlight
2009, CD, Album, JKNM Records
Avery Sharpe Trio
Dragon Fly
2004, CD, Album, JKNM Records
Ronald Shannon Jackson And The Decoding Society
Decode Yourself
1984, Vinyl, ,
Free Jazz/Jazz-Rock
Nat Adderley Septet
Don't Look Back
1976, ,
Post Bop/Jazz-Funk
Birthright
Free Spirits
1974, ,
Fusion/Modal
Woody Shaw Quintet
Live In Köln 1978
2xCDr, Unofficial, Jazztime (3), Jazztime (3),
Woody Shaw Quintet
Domicile Club 1978
CD, Unofficial, Megadisc (2)
Woody Shaw Quintet
Live in Europe 1978

APPEARANCES +


Phyllis Hyman
The Essential
2022, 2xLP, Comp, Bla, United Souls, ,
Soul/Disco
The Rob Franken Electrification*
Functional Stereo Music
2019, 3xCD, Album, Comp, 678 Records
Change
Everything And More (Complete Recordings 1980-2019)
2019, CD, CD, CD, CD, CD, CD, CD, Box Set, ,
Disco/Boogie/Italo-Disco
The Rob Franken Electrification* + Ferdinand Povel + Jiggs Whigham + Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen + Joop Scholten + Jan Huydts + John Lee (3) & Gerry Brown
Colours & Images
2018, LP, Album, 678 Records, ,
Jazz-Funk/Smooth Jazz/Jazz-Rock
Phyllis Hyman
Deliver The Love (The Anthology)
2017, 2x CD, ,
Soul/Disco
Tai Allen
Live Produce
2015
Billy Cobham
The Atlantic Years 1973-1978
2015, ,
Jazz-Rock/Fusion/Jazz-Funk
Art Webb
Mr. Flute / Love Eyes
2014, CD, Comp, Expansion, ,
Jazz-Funk
Joseph Daley*
Portraits: Wind, Thunder And Love
2014, CD, Album, JoDaMusic
Angela Johnson
Naturally Me
2014
Tracy Hamlin
This Is My Life
2013, CD, Album, Not On Label
Woody Shaw
The Complete Muse Sessions
2013, 7xCD, Album, RE + Box, Comp, Ltd, Num, Mosaic Records (2), ,
Post Bop/Fusion/Contemporary Jazz
MSRS & E-Man
Soul Liberation
2013, 10xFile, MP3, 320, Liberate Recordings
Norman Connors
You Are My Starship & Aquarian Dream
2013
Jarrard Anthony
Ready To Live
2012, CD, Album, Purpose, ,
Neo Soul/Contemporary R&B/RnB/Swing
Stanley Jordan
Magic Touch ★ Standards Volume 1 ★ Flying Home
2012, 2xCD, Album, Comp, RM, BGO Records,
Bennie Maupin
Slow Traffic To The Right & Moonscapes
2011, CD, Comp, RM, Vocalion, ,
Fusion
Avery Sharpe
Running Man
2011, CD, Album, JKNM Records
Joseph Daley* - Earth Tones Ensemble
The Seven Deadly Sins
2010, CD, Album, Dig, Jaro Medien, ,
Contemporary Jazz/Big Band/Free Jazz
Lou Volpe
Hear And Now
2010, CD, Jazz Guitar Records
Tom Browne
S' Up
2010
Aaron J. Johnson
Songs of Our Fathers
2009, CD-ROM, Album, Bubble-Sun Records, ,
Hard Bop/Bop
Abdul Zuhri*
Positive Vibe
2009, CD, Album, Dulesky Music, ,
Smooth Jazz
Bill Ware
Played Right
2009
Avery Sharpe
Legends & Mentors
2008, CD, Album, JKNM Records, ,
Contemporary Jazz
Various
Something Blue
2008, CD, Comp, Blue Note, Somethin' Else, ,
Cool Jazz/Hard Bop/Post Bop/Contemporary Jazz/Vocal
Carol A. Muller, Various
Music Of South Africa (Second Edition)
2008, CD + Boo, Routledge, ,
Folk/African/Gospel/Field Recording/Religious/Cape Jazz
Leon Ware
Moon Ride
2008, CD, ,
Soul/Contemporary R&B
Sathima Bea Benjamin
Song Spirit
2006, CD, Comp, Ekapa, ,
Vocal
Marian McPartland
An NPR Jazz Christmas Collection With Marian McPartland And Friends
2006, Box, Comp + 3xCD, Album, NPR, NPR, NPR, NPR, ,
Holiday
Various
Fusion With Attitude
2006, 2x Vinyl, ,
Fusion
Sandy Sasso
All My Men
2005, CD, Album, Charlie Boy Records (2)
Lil Phillips
Pull Out Those Dreams
2005, CD, Album, JLP Records, ,
Vocal
Earl Klugh
Earl Klugh
2005, ,
Smooth Jazz/Fusion
Phyllis Hyman
Ultimate
2004, CD, ,
Rhythm & Blues/Soul/Disco
Various
Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky
2004
Roy Ayers
Classic
2003, CD, Comp, Universal, Polydor
Clifford Adams
Cliff Notes
2002, CD, Album, Trentown
Marian McPartland
An NPR Jazz Christmas With Marian McPartland And Friends II
2002, HDCD, Album, NPR Classics
Kenny Burrell
Lucky So And So
2001
Carmen Lundy
This Is Carmen Lundy
2001,
Various
Metal Gear Solid 2 - Sons Of Liberty (Original Soundtrack)
2001, ,
Modern Classical/Score/Drum n Bass/Ambient/Video Game Music
Norman Connors
Eternity
2001, CD, ,
Soul/Rhythm & Blues
Ronny Jordan
A Brighter Day
2000, ,
Soul-Jazz/Acid Jazz
Joe
My Name Is Joe
2000, ,
Contemporary R&B
Woody Shaw
Solid (Moontrane & Imagination & Solid)
1999, 2xCD, Comp, Camden Deluxe, BMG,
T.K. Blue
Another Blue
1999, CD, Album, Arkadia Jazz, ,
Post Bop/Bop
Masahiko Osaka
Cross Fade
1999, CD, Album, Paddle Wheel,
Gwen Guthrie
Ultimate Collection
1999, CD, ,
Dub/Electro/Disco
Stefon Harris
BlackActionFigure
1999
Phyllis Hyman
Sweet Music
1998, CD, Comp, Camden, BMG, Buddah Records, ,
Disco/Ballad/Soul
Aaron Hall
Inside Of You
1998, ,
Contemporary R&B
Phyllis Hyman
One On One
1998, CD, ,
Soul-Jazz/Rhythm & Blues/Contemporary Jazz/Soul
Teruo Nakamura & The Rising Sun*
New York Music Diary 1976~77
1997, CD, Comp, Cheetah Records (3)
Joe
All That I Am
1997
Joe
Good Girls
1997, CD, ,
Contemporary R&B
Various
Latin Jazz Experience Part 2
1996, LP, Comp, pHo Records, pHo Records, ,
Latin Jazz
Jiro Yoshida
My Beating Heart
1996, CD, ,
Fusion
Stanley Jordan
The Best Of Stanley Jordan
1995, ,
Smooth Jazz/Soul-Jazz/Easy Listening
Will Downing
Moods
1995, CD, ,
Soul-Jazz/Smooth Jazz/Soul
Various
Deep Jazz Trip
1995
Norman Connors
Dance Of Magic / Dark Of Light
1995
Various
Move To Groove: The Best Of 1970s Jazz-Funk
1995, 2x CD, ,
Jazz-Funk/Funk/Fusion
Various
Jazz Funk Revival
1995, ,
Jazz-Funk
Kurtis Blow
The Best Of Kurtis Blow
1994, CD, ,
Pop Rap/Electro
Stanley Jordan
Bolero
1994, ,
Contemporary Jazz/Smooth Jazz/Jazz-Funk
Toninho Horta
Foot On The Road
1994, CD, ,
Bossa Nova/Latin Jazz
JeffMajors*
New Age Soul
1994, ,
New Age/Soul-Jazz
Various
The Meltdown! - 8 Finely Matured Jazz-Funk Tracks
1994, ,
Jazz-Funk
Various
Soul Jazz Love Strata-East
1994, 2x Vinyl, ,
Soul-Jazz/Fusion/Jazz-Funk
Will Downing
Love's The Place To Be
1993, ,
Soul/New Jack Swing/Contemporary R&B
Jonathan Butler
Head To Head
1993, CD, ,
Smooth Jazz/Soul
Various
JVC Jazz Festival 1993
1993, CD,
Mongo Santamaria And Friends*
Mambo Mongo
1993
Norman Connors
Saturday Night Special / You Are My Starship
1992, CD, Album, Comp, Sequel Records, ,
Jazz-Rock/Soul
Eddie Murphy
Love's Alright
1992, ,
Contemporary R&B
Carmen Lundy
Moment To Moment
1992,
Patti Austin
Live
1992, ,
Smooth Jazz/Soul
Bob Baldwin
Reflections Of Love
1992
Earl Klugh
The Best Of - Vol. 2
1992, ,
Smooth Jazz
Gerald Veasley
Look Ahead
1992
Woody Shaw
The Complete CBS Studio Recordings Of Woody Shaw
1992, 3x CD, Box Set, ,
Contemporary Jazz/Post Bop
Vanilla Ice
I Love You / Stop That Train
1991
Emanuel Rahiem*
Always Be Around
1991, CD, ,
Swingbeat/Soul
Titiyo
My Body Says Yes
1991
La La
La La Means I Love You!
1991, CD, ,
RnB/Swing/Soul/Funk
Terumasa Hino
From The Heart
1991, ,
Post Bop/Contemporary Jazz
Will Downing
A Dream Fulfilled
1991, ,
Soul-Jazz/Soul
Gerald Albright
Live At Birdland West
1991
Terumasa Hino
Live In Warsaw
1991, CD,
Ronald Shannon Jackson
Taboo
1990, ,
Jazz-Funk/Contemporary Jazz
Betty Carter
Betty Carter
1990,
Toninho Horta
Moonstone
1989
Terumasa Hino
Bluestruck
1989
Gwen Guthrie
Lifeline
1988, ,
Synth-pop/Disco
John Whitehead
I Need Money Bad
1988, Vinyl, ,
Soul/Funk
Michael Carvin
First Time
1988
Marlena Shaw
Love Is In Flight
1988,
Various
Novus Sampler '88
1988, ,
Contemporary Jazz/Fusion/Post Bop
James Moody
Moving Forward
1988, ,
Post Bop
Rebbie Jackson
R U Tuff Enuff
1988
Kevin Eubanks
Shadow Prophets
1988, ,
Smooth Jazz/Soul-Jazz
Glenn Jones
Glenn Jones
1987, ,
Soul
Working Week
Surrender
1987, ,
Soul-Jazz/Acid Jazz/Cool Jazz
Walter Beasley
Walter Beasley
1987, ,
Soul-Jazz/Jazz-Funk/Soul
Najee
Najee's Theme
1986, Cass, Album, EMI America, ,
Smooth Jazz/Jazz-Funk/Contemporary Jazz
Gwen Guthrie
Good To Go Lover
1986
Sadao Watanabe
Good Time For Love
1986, Vinyl,
Sathima Bea Benjamin
Memories And Dreams
1986
Najee
Najee's Theme
1986, ,
Smooth Jazz/Jazz-Funk/Contemporary Jazz
Jay Hoggard
Riverside Dance
1985, LP, Album, India Navigation,
Stanley Jordan
Magic Touch
1985
Alan Gorrie
Sleepless Nights
1985, Vinyl, ,
Rhythm & Blues/Ballad/Funk/Disco
John Blake
Twinkling Of An Eye
1985, Vinyl, ,
Contemporary Jazz
Various
Jazz 4: The Fancy Family Of Trumpets
1984, Box, Comp + 5xLP, Comp, CBS, Zeitmagazin,
Fatback*
Phoenix
1984, ,
Soul/Funk
Ronald Shannon Jackson
Pulse
1984
Various
Re:Source, Masters From Gramavision
1983
Ritchie Family*
All Night All Right
1983, Vinyl, ,
Soul/Funk/Synth-pop/Disco
Jay Hoggard
Love Survives
1983, CD, ,
Fusion
Fatback*
With Love
1983, ,
Soul/Funk/Disco
Silence
Goodtime Baby
1982, ,
Pop Rock/Italo-Disco
Sathima Bea Benjamin
Dedications
1982,
Change
Miracles
1981, ,
Disco
Earl Klugh
Crazy For You
1981, ,
Smooth Jazz/Jazz-Funk
T.S. Monk
More Of The Good Life
1981, ,
Soul/Disco
Norman Connors
Mr. C
1981, Vinyl, ,
Soul/Disco
Kurtis Blow
Deuce
1981, ,
Pop Rap
Kit Andrée
I'd Rather Dance With Kit
1980, LP, Album, Hoctor Records, Hoctor Records, ,
Funk/Disco/Light Music/Ballad
Buster Williams
Dreams Come True
1980, ,
Fusion
Kurtis Blow
Kurtis Blow
1980, ,
Funk/Disco
Shunzo Ohno
Antares
1980, ,
Fusion/Contemporary Jazz
T.S. Monk
House Of Music
1980, ,
Disco/Boogie
Fatback*
14 Karat
1980
Various
NDR Jazzworkshop ´78/´79
1979, LP, Album, Norddeutscher Rundfunk, ,
Free Jazz/Contemporary Jazz/Modal
Norman Connors
Invitation
1979, ,
Soul/Funk/Disco
Niteflyte
Niteflyte
1979
Woody Shaw
Woody Three
1979, Vinyl, ,
Post Bop
Steve Grossman
Perspective
1979, ,
Fusion/Jazz-Funk/Jazz-Rock
John Stubblefield
Midnight=Over=Memphis
1979
Al Foster
Mr. Foster
1979, ,
Jazz-Funk/Disco
Roy Ayers
Fever
1979
Roy Ayers
No Stranger To Love
1979
Noel Pointer
Feel It
1979, Vinyl, ,
Jazz-Funk/Soul/Funk/Disco
Bea Benjamin*
Sathima Sings Ellington
1979
Harvey Mason
Groovin' You
1979, ,
Disco
Shunzo Ohno
Quarter Moon
1979
Bennie Maupin
Moonscapes
1978, Vinyl, ,
Fusion/Jazz-Funk
Clint Houston
Watership Down
1978
Phyllis Hyman
Somewhere In My Lifetime
1978, Vinyl Santa Maria Pressing, ,
Soul/Disco
Various
Blue Note Meets The L.A. Philharmonic
1978, ,
Soul-Jazz/Smooth Jazz/Contemporary Jazz/Cool Jazz
Woody Shaw
Rosewood
1978, Vinyl Terre Haute Pressing, ,
Contemporary Jazz/Hard Bop/Fusion
Woody Shaw
Stepping Stones - Live At The Village Vanguard
1978
Woody Shaw
Every Time I See You
1978
Roy Ayers
You Send Me
1978, ,
Jazz-Funk/Disco
Noel Pointer
Hold On
1978, ,
Fusion
Phyllis Hyman
No One Can Love You More
1977, ,
Disco
Art Webb
Love Eyes
1977
Lenny White
Big City
1977, Vinyl MO - Monarch Pressing, ,
Fusion/Jazz-Funk/Funk
John Stubblefield
Prelude
1977
Phyllis Hyman
Phyllis Hyman
1977, Vinyl, ,
Soul/Disco
Bennie Maupin
Slow Traffic To The Right
1977, Vinyl, ,
Fusion/Jazz-Funk
Rickie Boger
Slow Down, Baby
1976, LP, Album, Muse Records, ,
Soul
Norman Connors
Betcha By Golly Wow / Kwasi
1976
Betty Carter
Betty Carter
1976
Nat Adderley
Hummin'
1976, ,
Jazz-Funk/Soul-Jazz
Teruo Nakamura
Rising Sun
1976
Robert Palmer
Sneakin' Sally Through The Alley
1975, ,
Rhythm & Blues/Pop Rock/Funk
Buster Williams
Pinnacle
1975
Lenny White
Venusian Summer
1975, ,
Fusion/Jazz-Funk
Larry Ridley
Sum Of The Parts
1975, ,
Jazz-Funk
Roy Ayers Ubiquity
A Tear To A Smile
1975, ,
Soul-Jazz/Jazz-Funk/Rhythm & Blues/Soul
Woody Shaw
The Moontrane
1975
Norman Connors
Saturday Night Special
1975, ,
Jazz-Funk
Norman Connors
Love From The Sun
1974, ,
Fusion
Kenny Burrell
Up The Street, 'Round The Corner, Down The Block
1974, ,
Post Bop/Jazz-Funk
Charles Sullivan
Genesis
1974
Cecil McBee
Mutima
1974, ,
Avant-garde Jazz/Post Bop/Free Jazz
Carlos Garnett
Black Love
1974
Natural Essence
Out Of Darkness / It's You I Need
1974
Norman Connors
Dark Of Light
1973, ,
Soul-Jazz/Fusion/Jazz-Funk/Avant-garde Jazz
Towner Galaher
Panorama
CD, Not On Label,
Pierre Ravan
KaRavan (Soul Liberation)
2010, 2xCD, Mixed, Clubstar, ,
House/Deep House/Garage House
Various
Jazz Improv Vol.6 Num. 2 - Red
2004, CD, Comp, Jazz Improv
Various
Street Jazz Volume One
2000, CD, Comp, Jazzateria
Various
Get M On! 1991 Dec.
1991, CD, Promo, MCA Records,
Various
In Store Play Only
1988, CD, Comp, Promo, MCA Records
Various
Urban Sampler
1988, CD, Comp, Promo, Smplr, MCA Records
Various
The Reel Thing: March 1988
1988, VHS, Comp, Promo, NTSC, MCA Music Video
Various
The Reel Thing: March 1988
1988, ,
Promotional/Pop Rock/Alternative Rock/Hard Rock/Theme/Country/Soul
Various
Spring Into Summer With MCA Jazz
1988, Cassette Dolby, ,
Contemporary Jazz
Various
A Different Stripe: Zebra Sampler
1988,
Various
Calm Jazz Vocal
1981, Cass, Comp, Deck Note Music
Woody Shaw
Live Collection 1979 Plus 1980
2020, 2xCDr, Comp, RM, Unofficial, Headless Hawk
Woody Shaw
70's Live Collection
2020, 2xCDr, Comp, RM, Unofficial, Headless Hawk
Various
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons Of Liberty (Original Soundtrack)
2001
Earl Klugh
Crazy For You
1992, ,
Smooth Jazz/Jazz-Funk
Billy Cobham
Powerplay
1986, Cassette, ,
Fusion
Woody Shaw
Hamburg 1979
3xCD, Unofficial, Megadisc (2)