Paul Chambers discography

With Cannonball Adderley

• Presenting Cannonball Adderley (Savoy, 1955)
• Julian "Cannonball" Adderley (EmArcy, 1955)
• Cannonball Adderley Quintet in Chicago (Mercury, 1959) – reissued as Cannonball and Coltrane (Philips, 1965)
• Cannonball Takes Charge (Riverside, 1959)

With Nat Adderley

• Introducing Nat Adderley (Mercury/Wing, 1955) – reissued as Them Adderleys (Limelight, 1966)
• Naturally! (Jazzland, 1961)

With Toshiko Akiyoshi

• The Toshiko Trio (Storyville, 1956)
• Toshiko Mariano and her Big Band (Vee-Jay, 1964)

With Chet Baker

• Chet Baker in New York (Riverside, 1959) – recorded in 1958
• Chet (Riverside, 1959) – recorded in 1958-59

With Kenny Burrell

• Jazzmen of Detroit with Tommy Flanagan, Pepper Adams, Kenny Clarke (Savoy, 1956)
• Introducing Kenny Burrell (Blue Note, 1956)
• John Jenkins with Kenny Burrell (Blue Note, 1957)
• Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane (Prestige 1958)

With Donald Byrd

• Byrd's Word (Savoy, 1955)
• New Formulas from the Jazz Lab (RCA Victor, 1957)
• Motor City Scene (Bethlehem, 1960)

With Sonny Clark

• Sonny's Crib (Blue Note, 1957)
• Sonny Clark Trio (Blue Note, 1957)
• Cool Struttin' (Blue Note, 1958)
• Blues in the Night (Blue Note, 1958)
• My Conception (Blue Note, 1959)

With John Coltrane

• Coltrane (Prestige 1957)
• Blue Train (Blue Note, 1958)
• Bahia (Prestige 1958)
• Black Pearls (Prestige 1958)
• Settin' the Pace (Prestige 1958)
• John Coltrane with the Red Garland Trio (Prestige 1958)
• Soultrane (Prestige 1958)
• Stardust (Prestige 1958)
• The Believer (Prestige 1958)
• The Last Trane (Prestige 1958)
• Bags & Trane (with Milt Jackson, Atlantic, 1960)
• Giant Steps (Atlantic, 1960)
• Lush Life (Prestige 1961)

With Sonny Criss

• This Is Criss! (Prestige, 1966)
• Portrait of Sonny Criss (Prestige, 1967)

With Miles Davis

• Miles (Prestige 1956)
• Collectors' Items (Prestige 1956)
• 'Round About Midnight (Columbia, 1957)
• Cookin (Prestige 1957)
• Miles Ahead (Columbia, 1957)
• Relaxin (Prestige 1958)
• Milestones (Columbia, 1958)
• Porgy and Bess (Columbia, 1959)
• Kind of Blue (Columbia, 1959)
• Steamin (Prestige 1960)
• Sketches of Spain (Columbia, 1960)
• Workin (Prestige 1961)
• Jazz at the Plaza Vol. I (Columbia, 1973 [rec. 1958])
• 1958 Miles (Columbia, 1974 [rec. 1958])
• Someday My Prince Will Come (Columbia, 1961)
• In Person Friday and Saturday Nights at the Blackhawk, Complete (1961)
• Quiet Nights (Columbia, 1962)
• Miles Davis at Newport 1955–1975: The Bootleg Series Vol. 4 (Columbia Legacy, 2015)

With Kenny Dorham

• Blue Spring (Riverside, 1959)
• Quiet Kenny (Prestige 1959)
• Whistle Stop (Blue Note, 1961)

With Gil Evans

• Gil Evans & Ten (Prestige 1957)
• New Bottle Old Wine (Pacific Jazz, 1958)
• The Individualism of Gil Evans (Verve, 1964)

With Curtis Fuller

• Curtis Fuller with Red Garland (Prestige 1957)
• The Opener (Blue Note, 1957)
• Bone & Bari (Blue Note, 1957)
• Sliding Easy (United Artists, 1959)
• The Curtis Fuller Jazztet (Savoy, 1959)

With Red Garland

• A Garland of Red (Prestige 1956)
• Red Garland's Piano (Prestige, 1957)
• Groovy (Prestige, 1957)
• Red Garland Revisited! (Prestige, 1957 [1969])
• The P.C. Blues (Prestige, 1957)
• Dig It! (Prestige, 1958)
• Can't See for Lookin' (Prestige, 1958)
• It's a Blue World (Prestige, 1958)
• Manteca (Prestige, 1958)
• The Red Garland Trio (Moodsville, 1958 [1960])
• All Kinds of Weather (Prestige 1959)
• Red in Blues-ville (Prestige 1959)

With Benny Golson

• Benny Golson's New York Scene (Contemporary, 1957)
• The Modern Touch (Riverside, 1958)
• Groovin' with Golson (New Jazz, 1959)
• Pop + Jazz = Swing (Audio Fidelity, 1961)
• Turning Point (Mercury, 1962)

With Dexter Gordon

• Dexter Calling... (Blue Note, 1961)
• Landslide (Blue Note, 1961-62 [1980])

With Bennie Green

• Bennie Green Blows His Horn (Prestige 1955)
• The 45 Session (Blue Note, 1958)
• Glidin' Along (Jazzland, 1961)

With Johnny Griffin

• A Blowin' Session (Blue Note, 1957)
• The Congregation (Blue Note, 1957)

With Jimmy Heath

• The Thumper (Riverside, 1959)
• On the Trail (Riverside, 1964)

With Joe Henderson

• Four (Verve, 1968)
• Straight, No Chaser (Verve, 1968)

With Elmo Hope

• Informal Jazz (Prestige 1956)
• Here's Hope! (Celebrity, 1961)
• High Hope! (Beacon, 1961)

With Milt Jackson

• Bags' Opus (United Artists, 1959) – recorded in 1958
• Bags & Trane (Atlantic, (w/John Coltrane) 1960)
• Statements (Impulse!, 1961)

With J. J. Johnson

• The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson Volume 2 (Blue Note, 1955)
• Trombone for Two (with Kai Winding, Columbia, 1955)
• First Place (Columbia, 1957)
• The Great Kai & J. J. (w/Kai Winding) (Impulse!, 1960)

With Philly Joe Jones

• Philly Joe's Beat ([Atlantic, 1960)
• Together! (Atlantic, 1961)

With Wynton Kelly

• Piano (Riverside, 1958)
• Kelly Blue (Riverside, 1959)
• Kelly at Midnight (Vee-Jay, 1960)
• Kelly Great (Vee-Jay, 1960)
• Wynton Kelly! (Vee-Jay, 1961)
• Comin' in the Back Door (Verve, 1963)
• It's All Right! (Verve, 1964)
• Undiluted (Verve, 1965)
• Blues on Purpose (Xanadu, 1965)
• Last Trio Session (Delmark, 1968)

With King Curtis

• The New Scene of King Curtis (New Jazz, 1960)
• Soul Meeting (Prestige, 1960)

With Abbey Lincoln

• That's Him! (Riverside, 1957)
• It's Magic (Riverside, 1958)

With Les McCann

• Soul Hits (Pacific Jazz, 1963)
• A Bag of Gold (Pacific Jazz, 1966) – recorded in 1963

With Hal McKusick

• Triple Exposure (Prestige, 1957)
• Cross Section-Saxes (Decca, 1958)

With Jackie McLean

• Jackie's Pal (Prestige, 1956)
• McLean's Scene (Prestige/New Jazz, 1957)
• Strange Blues (Prestige, 1957)
• Jackie's Bag (Blue Note, 1959)
• New Soil (Blue Note, 1959)
• Capuchin Swing (Blue Note, 1960)

With Hank Mobley

• Tenor Conclave (Prestige 1957) – recorded in 1956
• Hank Mobley Sextet (Blue Note, 1957) – recorded in 1956
• Peckin' Time (Blue Note, 1959) – recorded in 1958
• Soul Station (Blue Note, 1960)
• Roll Call (Blue Note, 1961) – recorded in 1960
• Workout (Blue Note, 1962) – recorded in 1961
• The Turnaround! (Blue Note, 1965) – recorded in 1963-65
• Another Workout (Blue Note, 1985) – recorded in 1961

With Lee Morgan

• Lee Morgan Sextet (Blue Note, 1956)
• Lee Morgan Vol. 3 (Blue Note, 1957)
• City Lights (Blue Note, 1957)
• The Cooker (Blue Note, 1957)
• Lee-Way (Blue Note, 1960)
• Here's Lee Morgan (Vee-Jay, 1960)
• Charisma (Blue Note, 1966)
• The Rajah (Blue Note, 1966)

With Wes Montgomery

• Full House (Riverside, 1962)
• Smokin' at the Half Note (Verve, 1965)
• Willow Weep for Me (Verve, 1969)

With Art Pepper

• Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section (Contemporary, 1957)
• Gettin' Together (Contemporary, 1960)

With Bud Powell

• Bud! The Amazing Bud Powell (Vol. 3) (Blue Note, 1957)
• The Scene Changes: The Amazing Bud Powell (Vol. 5) (Blue Note, 1958)

With Freddie Redd

• Shades of Redd (Blue Note, 1960)
• Redd's Blues (Blue Note, 1961)

With Sonny Rollins

• Tenor Madness (Prestige 1956)
• Sonny Rollins, Vol. 2 (Blue Note, 1957)
• The Sound of Sonny (Riverside, 1957)

With others

• Pepper Adams,Pepper Adams Plays the Compositions of Charlie Mingus (Workshop Jazz, 1964) – recorded in 1963
• Lorez Alexandria, Alexandria the Great (Impulse!, 1964)
• Gene Ammons, Jammin' in Hi Fi with Gene Ammons (Prestige, 1957)
• Walter Benton, Out of This World (Jazzland, 1960)
• Bob Brookmeyer, Jazz Is a Kick (Mercury, 1960)
• Tina Brooks, Back to the Tracks (Blue Note, 1960)
• Jaki Byard, On the Spot! (Prestige, 1967)
• Kenny Clarke,Bohemia After Dark (Savoy, 1955)
• Jimmy Cleveland, Introducing Jimmy Cleveland and His All Stars (EmArcy, 1955)
• John Graas, Jazz Lab 2 (Decca, 1957)
• Kenny Drew, Kenny Drew Trio (Riverside, 1956)
• Teddy Edwards, Nothin' But the Truth! (Prestige, 1966)
• Bill Evans, On Green Dolphin Street (Riverside, 1959)
• Jane Fielding and the Kenny Drew Quintet, Embers Glow (Jazz:West, 1956)
• Grant Green, First Session (Blue Note, 1960)
• Gigi Gryce,Jazz Lab (Jubilee, 1958) with Donald Byrd
• Herbie Hancock, Inventions and Dimensions (Blue Note, 1963)
• Barry Harris, Bull's Eye! (Prestige, 1968)
• Hampton Hawes, Bird Song (Contemporary, 1956 [1999])
• Roy Haynes, We Three (New Jazz, 1959)
• Ernie Henry, Last Chorus (Riverside, 1956–57)
• Richard "Groove" Holmes, Get Up & Get It! (Prestige, 1967)
• Freddie Hubbard, Goin' Up (Blue Note, 1960)
• John Jenkins, John Jenkins with Kenny Burrell (Blue Note, 1957)
• Elvin Jones, And Then Again (Atlantic, 1965)
• Hank Jones, Hank Jones' Quartet (Savoy, 1956)
• Thad Jones, After Hours (Prestige, 1957)
• Quincy Jones, This Is How I Feel About Jazz (ABC-Paramount, 1957)
• Clifford Jordan, Cliff Jordan (Blue Note, 1957)
• Warne Marsh, Warne Marsh (Atlantic, 1958)
• Blue Mitchell, Out of the Blue (Riverside, 1958)
• Thelonious Monk, Brilliant Corners (Riverside, 1956)
• Oliver Nelson, The Blues and the Abstract Truth (Impulse!, 1961)
• Phineas Newborn Jr., A World of Piano! (Contemporary, 1961)
• David "Fathead" Newman, Straight Ahead (Atlantic, 1961)
• Houston Person, Trust in Me (Prestige, 1967)
• The Prestige All Stars, Interplay for 2 Trumpets and 2 Tenors (Prestige, 1957)
• Ike Quebec, Blue and Sentimental (Blue Note, 1961)
• Paul Quinichette, Moods (EmArcy, 1954)
• Sonny Red, Out of the Blue (Blue Note, 1960)
• Dizzy Reece, Star Bright (Blue Note, 1959)
• A. K. Salim, Pretty for the People (Savoy, 1957)
• Sahib Shihab, Jazz Sahib (Savoy, 1957)
• Woody Shaw, In the Beginning (Muse, 1983) – recorded in 1965
• Wayne Shorter, Introducing Wayne Shorter (Vee-Jay, 1959)
• Louis Smith, Smithville (Blue Note, 1958)
• Sonny Stitt, Sonny Stitt - Previously Unreleased Recordings (Verve, 1973) – recorded in 1960
• Frank Strozier, Fantastic Frank Strozier (Vee-Jay, 1960)
• Art Taylor, A.T.'s Delight (Blue Note, 1960)
• Clark Terry, Serenade to a Bus Seat (Riverside, 1957)
• Stanley Turrentine, ZT's Blues (Blue Note, 1961)
• George Wallington, Live at the Café Bohemia (Progressive, 1955)
• Julius Watkins and Charlie Rouse, Les Jazz Modes (Dawn, 1957)[2]