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The Sideman Map
Every musician on every record reviewed on Vinyl Standard, and who they played with
Jazz is a sideman music. The same bassists and drummers turn up on record after record, and following them from one date to the next is how most of us found half the albums we love. Start with a player or a record, click anyone in the circle, and keep going.
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Most Connected
The players who show up on the most reviewed records. Gold is as leader, cream is as sideman.
Every player
428 musicians on 5 or more reviewed records have a page of their own, listed by surname.
- Pepper Adams 21
- Cannonball Adderley 59
- Nat Adderley 48
- Rashied Ali 7
- Carl Allen 7
- Barry Altschul 8
- Gene Ammons 56
- Curtis Amy 6
- Cat Anderson 6
- Ernie Andrews 5
- Louis Armstrong 11
- Bob Ashton 6
- Dave Bailey 6
- Donald Bailey 11
- Chet Baker 22
- Danny Bank 6
- Bill Barber 6
- Ray Barretto 25
- Kenny Barron 8
- George Barrow 7
- Gary Bartz 6
- Count Basie 11
- Joe Benjamin 7
- George Benson 5
- Eddie Bert 8
- Barney Bigard 5
- Ed Blackwell 8
- Art Blakey 64
- Willie Bobo 6
- Phil Bodner 5
- George Bohanon 9
- Jimmy Bond 8
- Walter Booker 15
- Patti Bown 8
- Nelson Boyd 5
- Oscar Brashear 7
- Anthony Braxton 14
- Michael Brecker 6
- Randy Brecker 5
- Bob Brookmeyer 7
- Roy Brooks 6
- Tina Brooks 6
- Clifford Brown 15
- George Brown 6
- Ray Brown 60
- Sam Brown 7
- Chris Brubeck 9
- Dave Brubeck 44
- Bobby Bryant 5
- Ray Bryant 12
- Monty Budwig 6
- Jim Buffington 7
- Carl Burnett 12
- Kenny Burrell 77
- Herb Bushler 5
- Frank Butler 5
- Don Butterfield 10
- Jaki Byard 5
- Billy Byers 5
- Donald Byrd 67
- Candido Camero 7
- Conte Candoli 8
- Ron Carter 94
- Joe Chambers 8
- Paul Chambers 77
- Don Cherry 9
- Joe Cinderella 5
- Sonny Clark 21
- Buck Clarke 5
- Kenny Clarke 24
- Jimmy Cleveland 22
- Jimmy Cobb 26
- Billy Cobham 14
- Al Cohn 7
- Henry Coker 12
- Earl Coleman 5
- George Coleman 11
- Ornette Coleman 11
- Johnny Coles 9
- Alice Coltrane 5
- John Coltrane 55
- Junior Cook 7
- Chick Corea 24
- Mayuto Correa 6
- Bob Cranshaw 22
- Israel Crosby 6
- Wendell Culley 11
- Art Davis 10
- Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis 6
- Miles Davis 74
- Richard Davis 18
- Alan Dawson 5
- Donald Dean 5
- Jack DeJohnette 18
- Paul Desmond 29
- Bruce Ditmas 5
- Ben Dixon 7
- Jerry Dodgion 11
- Eric Dolphy 30
- Lou Donaldson 17
- Kenny Dorham 15
- Bill Dowdy 23
- Kenny Drew 10
- Martin Drew 9
- Ray Drummond 6
- George Duke 10
- Frankie Dunlop 8
- Eddie Duran 6
- Bobby Durham 9
- George Duvivier 26
- Harry "Sweets" Edison 7
- Esmond Edwards 5
- Teddy Edwards 9
- Roy Eldridge 8
- Duke Ellington 13
- Herb Ellis 20
- Bill English 7
- King Errisson 6
- Ron Eschete 10
- Bill Evans 67
- Gil Evans 21
- Sue Evans 8
- Jon Faddis 8
- Art Farmer 24
- Joe Farrell 5
- Paul Faulise 5
- Wilton Felder 5
- Victor Feldman 8
- Tommy Flanagan 35
- Al Foster 13
- Frank Foster 19
- Charlie Fowlkes 11
- Russ Freeman 13
- Ryo Fukui 7
- Curtis Fuller 35
- Barry Galbraith 10
- Eric Gale 5
- Larry Gales 7
- Red Garland 15
- Jimmy Garrison 23
- Victor Gaskin 6
- Rudy Van Gelder 14
- Stan Getz 15
- Dizzy Gillespie 9
- Bernie Glow 6
- Benny Golson 49
- Eddie Gomez 20
- Paul Gonsalves 13
- Dexter Gordon 13
- Bill Graham 5
- Freddie Green 15
- Grant Green 40
- Urbie Green 13
- Johnny Griffin 6
- Steve Grossman 5
- Gigi Gryce 8
- Vince Guaraldi 10
- Charlie Haden 17
- Al Haig 7
- Jim Hall 11
- Herbie Hancock 55
- Roland Hanna 7
- Bill Hardman 5
- Al Harewood 8
- Billy Harper 7
- Barry Harris 12
- Gene Harris 57
- Billy Hart 6
- Coleman Hawkins 25
- Louis Hayes 36
- Roy Haynes 22
- J.C. Heard 5
- Albert “Tootie” Heath 11
- Percy Heath 32
- Eddie Henderson 5
- Joe Henderson 27
- Michael Henderson 7
- Billy Higgins 31
- Motohiko Hino 21
- Terumasa Hino 27
- Milt Hinton 10
- Johnny Hodges 9
- Dave Holland 18
- Major Holley 8
- Red Holloway 5
- John Houston 7
- Freddie Hubbard 37
- Bill Hughes 6
- Luther Hughes 11
- Paul Humphrey 14
- Lex Humphries 6
- Bobby Hutcherson 10
- Grachan Moncur III 6
- Yoshio Ikeda 5
- Yuji Imamura 7
- Kunimitsu Inaba 5
- Jiro Inagaki 31
- Chuck Israels 8
- Fumio Itabashi 5
- Milt Jackson 12
- Ahmad Jamal 10
- Keith Jarrett 13
- Akira Jimbo 6
- Budd Johnson 5
- Gus Johnson 5
- Howard Johnson 7
- J.J. Johnson 17
- Marc Johnson 9
- Osie Johnson 15
- Eddie Jones 11
- Elvin Jones 42
- Hank Jones 27
- Harold Jones 6
- Jimmy Jones 11
- Jo Jones 11
- Philly Joe Jones 50
- Quincy Jones 8
- Randy Jones 8
- Reunald Jones 8
- Sam Jones 58
- Thad Jones 18
- Willie Jones 5
- Clifford Jordan 5
- Duke Jordan 13
- Walter Bishop Jr. 11
- Walter Davis Jr. 6
- Connie Kay 6
- Wynton Kelly 32
- Eddie Khan 6
- Masabumi Kikuchi 5
- Jimmy Knepper 7
- Lee Konitz 5
- Teddy Kotick 9
- Hachiro Kurita 5
- Joe LaBarbera 8
- Steve Lacy 5
- Scott LaFaro 6
- Harold Land 9
- Yusef Lateef 9
- Hubert Laws 15
- Mike LeDonne 5
- Stan Levey 7
- Pete Levin 5
- John Lewis 16
- Mel Lewis 7
- Alfred Lion 6
- Booker Little 7
- Eddie Locke 8
- Harold Mabern 6
- Ralph MacDonald 10
- Norio Maeda 6
- Tom Malone 5
- Junior Mance 16
- Herbie Mann 6
- Shelly Manne 13
- Lawrence Marable 7
- Wade Marcus 5
- George Marge 6
- Branford Marsalis 7
- Wynton Marsalis 12
- Wendell Marshall 16
- Harvey Mason 11
- Mikio Masuda 8
- Bennie Maupin 12
- Lyle Mays 7
- Cecil McBee 5
- Les McCann 10
- Roy McCurdy 22
- Jack McDuff 11
- Al McKibbon 5
- John McLaughlin 10
- Jackie McLean 20
- Gil Mellé 10
- Jymie Merritt 9
- Pat Metheny 10
- Pierre Michelot 5
- Marcus Miller 7
- Mulgrew Miller 7
- Kohsuke Mine 18
- Charles Mingus 17
- Blue Mitchell 13
- Red Mitchell 5
- Hideo Miyata 7
- Fonce Mizell 6
- Larry Mizell 6
- Hank Mobley 36
- Thelonious Monk 40
- Buddy Montgomery 5
- Monk Montgomery 6
- Wes Montgomery 29
- Airto Moreira 17
- Marty Morell 11
- Joe Morello 22
- Lee Morgan 38
- George Morrow 17
- Paul Motian 16
- George Mraz 8
- Mtume 6
- Idris Muhammad 15
- Minoru Mukaiya 8
- Gerry Mulligan 6
- Hiroshi Murakami 7
- Takeru Muraoka 7
- Ray Nance 5
- Fumio Nanri 5
- Oliver Nelson 12
- Joe Newman 21
- Jack Nimitz 5
- Issei Noro 8
- Claus Ogerman 5
- Tsutomu Okada 9
- Akira Okazawa 6
- John Ore 6
- Charlie Parker 20
- Horace Parlan 8
- Joe Pass 8
- Cecil Payne 6
- Sonny Payne 8
- Duke Pearson 11
- Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen 18
- Art Pepper 19
- Walter Perkins 5
- Charlie Persip 20
- Jerry Peters 7
- Hannibal Marvin Peterson 5
- Oscar Peterson 65
- Oscar Pettiford 11
- Tommy Potter 16
- Benny Powell 13
- Bud Powell 15
- Richie Powell 7
- Bernard Purdie 6
- Flora Purim 5
- Paul Quinichette 6
- Chuck Rainey 12
- Gene Ramey 9
- Jimmy Raney 5
- Dewey Redman 7
- Rufus Reid 7
- Buddy Rich 9
- Jerome Richardson 23
- Dannie Richmond 9
- Larry Ridley 5
- Ben Riley 12
- Max Roach 46
- Steve Rodby 5
- Mickey Roker 13
- Sonny Rollins 27
- Dom Um Romao 5
- Frank Rosolino 12
- Charlie Rouse 20
- John Rowin 6
- Ernie Royal 18
- Marshall Royal 14
- Curly Russell 15
- Tetsuo Sakurai 8
- Joe Sample 5
- David Sanborn 5
- Pharoah Sanders 11
- John Scofield 5
- Don Sebesky 11
- Yuzuru Sera 6
- Ed Shaughnessy 5
- Arvell Shaw 6
- Woody Shaw 10
- Sahib Shihab 9
- Hideo Shiraki 10
- Wayne Shorter 42
- Horace Silver 30
- Andrew Simpkins 28
- Zoot Sims 26
- Jack Six 5
- Bill Smith 5
- Carson Smith 6
- Emma Smith 5
- Jimmy Smith 15
- Marvin “Smitty” Smith 5
- Warren Smith 8
- Lew Soloff 6
- James Spaulding 8
- Sonny Stitt 41
- Tony Studd 5
- Kiyoshi Sugimoto 9
- Idrees Sulieman 8
- Hiromasa Suzuki 6
- Hiroshi Suzuki 5
- Grady Tate 24
- Art Taylor 51
- Gene Taylor 5
- Richard Tee 8
- Clark Terry 26
- Ed Thigpen 28
- Marshall Thompson 6
- Bobby Timmons 18
- Ben Tucker 9
- Stanley Turrentine 18
- McCoy Tyner 37
- Takao Uematsu 5
- Sarah Vaughan 7
- Harold Vick 6
- Leroy Vinnegar 17
- Mal Waldron 23
- David T. Walker 7
- Cedar Walton 18
- Wilbur Ware 8
- Butch Warren 16
- Doug Watkins 39
- Julius Watkins 12
- Ernie Watts 5
- Jeff "Tain" Watts 8
- Frank Wess 16
- Kenny Wheeler 5
- Joe Wilder 5
- Ernie Wilkins 7
- Buster Williams 14
- Joe Williams 5
- Tony Williams 23
- Shadow Wilson 6
- Britt Woodman 5
- Phil Woods 14
- Reggie Workman 21
- Eugene Wright 22
- Richard Wyands 15
- Hozan Yamamoto 8
- Larry Young 5
- Lester Young 10
- Snooky Young 16
- Joe Zawinul 21
How this works
Every album review on this site carries a personnel block that was checked against session discographies before it went up. The map is built from those blocks and nothing else. That means it only knows about records that have been reviewed here, so the number next to Paul Chambers is how many reviewed records he is on, not his whole career. It also means every connection on the map leads to a real review you can read. When a new review is published, the map picks it up.
Ensembles credited as a unit (a studio orchestra, a string section) are listed on the review but do not appear as players here. Looking for a specific record instead? Try the album search.