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Earl Gardner
New York City, United States
Earl Gardner is credited on 153 albums across 630 pressings tracked on Gatefold, active 1957–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
153
Albums
630
Pressings
8
Decades active
585
In collections
Biography
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American trumpeter, born 19 April 1950 in New York City, New York, USA
Bio from Discogs
Credited work
153 albums · 630 pressings · active 1957–2025
- Performance · 827
- Other credits · 54
Studios: The Hit Factory · Sigma Sound Studios, New York · Record Plant, Los Angeles · Skyline Studios
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Graceland
1986

Naked
1988

Supernatural
1999

Never Let Me Down
1987

Prism
2013

Popular Favorites 1976-1992 - Sand In The Vaseline
1992

The Best Of Talking Heads
2004

Emotions
1991

Negotiations And Love Songs (1971-1986)
1988

Love This Giant
2012

MTV Unplugged EP
1992

20/20
1985

Sound + Vision
1989

I Don't Want To Go Home
1976

The Essential Paul Simon
2007

Out Of Order
1988
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Loving The Alien [ 1983–1988 ]
2018

Grown Backwards
2004

How Could It Be
1985

Sons Of Soul
1993

Squeeze Box: The Complete Works Of "Weird Al" Yankovic
2017

Strange Angels
1989

Once In A Lifetime - The Best Of
1992

Remote
1988
Frequent collaborators
- Talking Heads
- Paul Simon
- David Bowie
- McCoy Tyner Big Band
- Mingus Big Band
- Various
- Mariah Carey
- Rod Stewart
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