Performance
Sylvester "Vess" Payne
Sylvester "Vess" Payne is credited on 85 releases across 20 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1956–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
85
Pressings credited
20
Albums
8
Decades active
10
In collections
Credited work
85 releases · 20 albums · active 1956–2025
- Performance · 140
Studios: Royal Roost (2) · Radio Staion WDSU · WOR Studios · Goldwyn Soundstage
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Cootie Williams And His Orchestra
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Dinah Washington
- Charlie Parker
- Cootie Williams
- Earl Bud Powell
- Pearl Bailey
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