J. J. Johnson discography

J. J. Johnson recordings as leader or co-leader

1949: J. J. Johnson's Jazz Quintets (Savoy) – LP release of J. J. Johnson Savoy singles and EPs from 1946~49

1949: Modern Jazz Trombones (Prestige) – B-side of 10 inch album, released 1951. Kai Winding on A-side

1949: J. J. Johnson with Sonny Stitt (Prestige) – also issued as part of 1951's, 10 inch Modern Jazz Trombones Volume Two. Also reissued in 1957 as part of Sonny Stitt/Bud Powell/J. J. Johnson

1952: Jazz South Pacific (Regent / Savoy)

1953: Jay Jay Johnson with Clifford Brown,… (Blue Note) – re-issued as The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson Volume 1

1953: Jazz Workshop, Volume One: Trombone Rapport (Debut Records) – with Kai Winding, Bennie Green, Willie Dennis

1953: Jazz Workshop, Volume Two: Trombone Rapport (Debut) – 1955 release of more recordings from the 1953 Jazz Workshop sessions

1953: Four Trombones (Debut) – third release (in 1957) of recordings from the 1953 Jazz Workshop sessions

1954: The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson, Vol. 2 (Blue Note)

1955: The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson, Vol. 3 (Blue Note)

1956: J Is for Jazz (Columbia)

1957: First Place (Columbia)

1957: Blue Trombone (Columbia)

1957: Dial J. J. 5 (Columbia)

1957: Stan Getz and J.J. Johnson at the Opera House (Verve)

1958: J. J. in Person! (Columbia)

1959: Really Livin' (Columbia)

1960: Trombone and Voices (Columbia)

1960: J.J. Inc. (Columbia)

1961: A Touch of Satin (Columbia)

1961: André Previn and J. J. Johnson (Columbia) – with André Previn

1963: J.J.'s Broadway (Verve)

1964: Proof Positive (Impulse!)

1964: J.J.! (RCA Victor)

1965: Goodies (RCA Victor)

1965: Broadway Express (RCA Victor)

1966: The Total J.J. Johnson (RCA Victor)

1977: The Yokohama Concert (Pablo) – with Nat Adderley

1977: Chain Reaction: Yokohama Concert, Vol. 2 (Pablo, released in 2002) – with Nat Adderley

1979: Pinnacles (Milestone)

1980: Concepts in Blue (Pablo)

1982: Aurex Jazz Festival ’82 All Star Jam (East World / Somethin' Else Classics) – with Clark Terry, Kai Winding, Dexter Gordon, ...

1983: Jackson, Johnson, Brown and Company (Fantasy) – with Milt Jackson, Ray Brown, ...

1984: We'll Be Together Again (Pablo) – with Joe Pass

1984: Things Are Getting Better All the Time (Pablo) – with Al Grey

1988: Quintergy (Antilles)

1988: Standards (Antilles)

1992: Vivian (Concord)

1992: Let's Hang Out (Verve)

1994: Tangence (Verve) – with the Robert Farnon Orchestra

1996: The Brass Orchestra (Verve)

1998: Heroes (Verve)

With Kai Winding as co-leader

1954: Jay and Kai (Savoy)

1954: An Afternoon at Birdland ("X"/RCA)

1954: Jay and Kai – Dec. 3, 1954 (10 inch LP, Prestige)

1955: K + J.J. (Bethlehem, reissued 1959 as Nuf Said and The Finest of K & J.J., 1976, and by Affinity as Kai & Jay!, 1986)

1955: Jay and Kai (10", Columbia)

1955: Trombone for Two (Columbia)

1956: Jay and Kai + 6, The Jay and Kai Trombone Octet (Columbia)

1956: Dave Brubeck and Jay & Kai at Newport (Columbia) – Johnson on the last three tracks only, first four tracks by the Dave Brubeck Quartet

1960: The Great Kai & J. J. (Impulse!)

1968: Israel (A&M/CTI)

1968: Betwixt & Between (A&M/CTI)

1969: Stonebone (A&M/CTI (Japan))

As sideman

With Cannonball Adderley

Julian "Cannonball" Adderley (EmArcy, 1955)

With Nat Adderley

Sayin' Somethin' (Atlantic, 1966)

With Manny Albam

The Soul of the City (Solid State, 1966)

With Count Basie

Basie Jam (1973)

The Bosses (1973)

Count Basie and the Kansas City 7 (Pablo, 1980)

With Kenny Burrell

Night Song (Verve, 1969)

With Donald Byrd

I'm Tryin' to Get Home (Blue Note, 1964)

With Miles Davis

The Birth of the Cool (Capitol, 1949)

Young Man with a Horn (Blue Note, 1952)

Walkin' (Prestige, 1954)

Miles Davis Volume 1 (Blue Note, 1956)

Miles Davis Volume 2 (Blue Note, 1956)

With Paul Desmond

Summertime (A&M/CTI, 1968)

With Kenny Dorham

Afro-Cuban (Blue Note, 1955)

With Ella Fitzgerald

At the Opera House (Verve, 1957)

With Dizzy Gillespie

The Complete RCA Victor Recordings (1937-1949, Bluebird, 1995)

Dee Gee Days: The Savoy Sessions (1951–52, Savoy, 1976)

Afro (Norgran, 1954)

Dizzy and Strings (Norgran, 1954)

Perceptions (Verve, 1961) - composer and arranger

With Benny Golson

The Modern Touch (Riverside, 1957)

With Coleman Hawkins

The Hawk Flies High (1957)

With Milt Jackson

Bebop (East West, 1988)

With Elvin Jones

And Then Again (Atlantic, 1965)

With John Lewis

The Modern Jazz Society Presents a Concert of Contemporary Music (Norgran, 1955)

With Howard McGhee

Howard McGhee, Vol. 1 (Blue Note, 1950)

With Jimmy McGriff

The Big Band (Solid State, 1966)

With Oliver Nelson

Happenings with Hank Jones (Impulse!, 1966)

Encyclopedia of Jazz (Verve, 1966)

The Sound of Feeling (Verve, 1966)

With Chico O'Farrill

Nine Flags (Impulse!, 1966)

With Charlie Parker

Charlie Parker on Dial (Dial, 1947)

With Sonny Rollins

Sonny Rollins, Vol. 2 (Blue Note, 1957)

Alfie (Impulse!, 1966)

With Moacir Santos

Carnival of the Spirits (Blue Note, 1975)

With Lalo Schifrin

New Fantasy (Verve, 1964)

Once a Thief and Other Themes (Verve, 1965)

With Horace Silver

The Cape Verdean Blues (Blue Note, 1965)

With Sonny Stitt

Sonny Stitt Plays Arrangements from the Pen of Quincy Jones (Roost, 1955)

The Matadors Meet the Bull (Roulette, 1965)

What's New!!! (Roulette, 1966)

With Steve Turre

Steve Turre (Verve, 1996)

With Stanley Turrentine

Joyride (Blue Note, 1965)

Soundtracks

Man And Boy (Sussex, 1971) – with Quincy Jones featuring Bill Withers

Across 110th Street (United Artists, 1972) – with Bobby Womack

Cleopatra Jones (Warner, 1973) – with Joe Simon featuring Millie Jackson

Willie Dynamite (MCA, 1974) – featuring Martha Reeves & The Sweet Things

Other notable recordings

The Birdlanders, Vol. 1, ...Vol. 2, ...Vol. 3 (Period, 1954) – with Henri Renaud, Al Cohn, Milt Jackson, …

Aurex Jazz Festival '82 - Live Special (East World, 1982)

Carnegie Hall Salutes the Jazz Masters (Verve, 1994)