Biography
James Minter Knepper (November 22, 1927 – June 14, 2003) was an American jazz trombonist. In addition to his own recordings as leader, Knepper performed and recorded with Charlie Barnet, Woody Herman, Claude Thornhill, Stan Kenton, Benny Goodman, Gil Evans, Thad Jones and Mel Lewis, Toshiko Akiyoshi and Lew Tabackin, and, most famously, Charles Mingus in the late-1950s and early-1960s.
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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Sketches Of Spain
1960
Mingus Ah Um
1959
Blues & Roots
1960
Out Of The Cool
1961
Miles Davis At Carnegie Hall
1962
The Jazz Experiments Of Charlie Mingus
1957
The Smithsonian Collection Of Classic Jazz
1973
Tijuana Moods
1962
Me Myself An Eye
1979
Guitar Forms
1965
Oh Yeah
1962
New York, N.Y.
1959
The Clown
1957
Road Time
1976
Newport Rebels
1961
Outward Bound
1960
East Coasting
1957
New Tijuana Moods
1986
Cumbia & Jazz Fusion
1978
That Girl From Ipanema
1977
Better Git It In Your Soul
1971
A Genuine Tong Funeral
1968
New Mann At Newport
1966
The Incredible Kai Winding Trombones
1961
Credited work
2,126 releases · 243 albums · active 1956–2026
- Performance · 2,708
- Other credits · 108
- Engineering · 2
Studios: Nola Recording Studios · Atlantic Studios · Columbia 30th Street Studio · Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey