J.J. Johnson

jazz/bop trombonist/session leader, United States, 1924 to 2001

Albums

Year Title Average Ratings
2005 Jay Jay Johnson 7.0 1
49 more releases
1951 Modern Jazz Trombones Volume Two
1951 Modern Jazz Trombones
1953 Jay Jay Johnson with Clifford Brown, Jimmy Heath, John Lewis, Percy Heath, Kenny Clarke
1954 Jay & Kai
1955 The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson, Volume 2
1955 Trombone for Two
1955 This Is Chris
1955 The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson, Volume 1
1955 K + J.J.
1956 Sonny Stitt Bud Powell J.J. Johnson
1956 Jay & Kai + 6
1957 Four Trombones
1957 Dial J.J. 5
1957 Music for Brass
1957 Blue Trombone
1957 First Place
1959 "Nuf Said"
1960 Trombone and Voices
1961 The Great Kai & J.J.
1961 J.J. Inc.
1962 Play Mack the Knife and Other Kurt Weill Songs
1965 Proof Positive
1965 J.J.!
1965 Music for 4 Soloists and Band No. 1
1965 The Cape Verdean Blues
1966 Goodies
1967 The Total J.J. Johnson
1968 Israel
1969 Betwixt & Between
1970 Stonebone
1974 First Place
1977 Yokohama Concert
1979 A Date in New York
1981 Concepts in Blue
1983 Jackson, Johnson, Brown & Company
1984 We'll Be Together Again
1984 Things Are Getting Better All the Time
1991 Music for Brass
1992 Vivian
1992 J.J. Johnson's Jazz Quintets
1993 Let's Hang Out
1995 Tangence
1997 The Brass Orchestra
1999 Pinnacles
1999 Heroes
2001 The Birdlanders Volume 1
2003 J.J.'s Broadway
2024 Jay Jay Johnson
The Great Kai & J. J. (2025 Remaster)

EPs

Year Title Average Ratings
1957 Brass in Modern Jazz
1960 The Winners of Down Beat's Readers Poll 1960 "Horns "
Star Session

Live

Year Title Average Ratings
1956 Dave Brubeck and Jay & Kai At Newport
1957 Stan Getz and J.J. Johnson at The Opera House
1991 Standards: Live at the Village Vanguard
1991 Quintergy: Live at the Village Vanguard
1993 South Pacific Jazz
2002 Chain Reaction
2018 Live in Paris: Jazz From Carnegie Hall, 1er oct. 1958

Soundtracks

Year Title Average Ratings
1971 Man and Boy
1972 Across 110th Street 7.5 2
1973 Cleopatra Jones
1974 Willie Dynamite