Performance

Earl "Buster" Smith

Earl "Buster" Smith is credited on 150 releases across 24 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1961–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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150

Pressings credited

24

Albums

7

Decades active

16

In collections

Credited work

150 releases · 24 albums · active 1961–2026

  • Performance · 240

Studios: Variety Recording Studio · Funkturm Exhibition Hall · Club 'Jazz Saloon' · The Sound Factory

Discography

Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Frequent collaborators

  • Sun Ra Arkestra
  • Sun Ra
  • John Lewis (2)
  • Eric Dolphy
  • Various
  • Sun Ra & His Intergalaxtic Arkestra
  • Le Sun Ra And His Cosmo Discipline Arkestra
  • Sun Ra And His Year 2000 Myth Science Arkestra

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