Ira Gitler
Biography
Ira Gitler (December 18, 1928 – February 23, 2019) was an American jazz historian and journalist. The co-author of The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz with Leonard Feather—the most recent edition appeared in 1999—he wrote hundreds of liner notes for jazz recordings beginning in the early 1950s and wrote several books about jazz and ice hockey, two of his passions.
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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Saxophone Colossus
1957
Sunday At The Village Vanguard
1961
Thelonious Monk With John Coltrane
1961
Someday My Prince Will Come
1961
Soultrane
1958
Relaxin' With The Miles Davis Quintet
1958
Quiet Kenny
1960
Cookin' With The Miles Davis Quintet
1957
Go!
1962
Steamin' With The Miles Davis Quintet
1961
The Incredible Jazz Guitar Of Wes Montgomery
1960
Back At The Chicken Shack
1963
Caravan
1962
True Blue
1960
San Francisco
1971
Coltrane
1957
A Blowing Session
1957
Clubhouse
1979
Cornbread
1967
Home Cookin'
1961
Doin' Allright
1961
Tenor Madness
1956
Rough 'N Tumble
1966
My Point Of View
1963
Credited work
7,692 releases · 743 albums · active 1951–2026
- Other credits · 7,886
- Production · 219
- Performance · 16
Studios: Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey · Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey · WOR Studios · Plaza Sound Studios