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Ed Allen
Ed Allen is credited on 221 releases across 70 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1951–2024 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
221
Pressings credited
70
Albums
8
Decades active
14
In collections
Biography
Edward Clifton Allen (December 15, 1897 – January 28, 1974) was an American jazz trumpeter and cornetist.
Bio from Wikipedia
Credited work
221 releases · 70 albums · active 1951–2024
- Performance · 423
- Other credits · 40
- Production · 2
Studios: Manta Sound · CBS Studios, New York
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Mean Mothers: Independent Women's Blues, Volume 1
1980
The Bessie Smith Story - Volume 2
1951
The Essential Bessie Smith
1997
Reefer Songs (16 Original Jazz Classics)
1976
Any Woman's Blues
1970
The World's Greatest Blues Singer
1970
Jazz In The Making - The Classic Era
1963
A History Of Jazz: The New York Scene
1961
Clarence Williams' Orchestra
1967
Clarence Williams Rarities
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Bessie Smith
- Clarence Williams
- Clarence Williams' Jazz Kings
- Clarence Williams And His Orchestra
- Cliff Jackson's Washboard Wanderers
- Clarence Williams Rhythm Kings
- Lonnie Johnson (2)
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