Impulse! Records discography

Discography for the American jazz record label Impulse! Records. Original releases had the A- prefix for the mono release and AS- for the stereo.

Discography[]

Original series[]

Catalog number	Artist	Title
1	J. J. Johnson & Kai Winding	The Great Kai & J. J.
2	Ray Charles	Genius + Soul = Jazz
3	Kai Winding	The Incredible Kai Winding Trombones
4	Gil Evans	Out of the Cool
5	Oliver Nelson	The Blues and the Abstract Truth
6	John Coltrane	Africa/Brass
7	Art Blakey	Art Blakey!!!!! Jazz Messengers!!!!!
8	Max Roach	Percussion Bitter Sweet
9	Gil Evans	Into the Hot
10	John Coltrane	Live! at the Village Vanguard
11	Quincy Jones	The Quintessence
12	Benny Carter	Further Definitions
13	Curtis Fuller	Soul Trombone
14	Milt Jackson	Statements
15	Count Basie	Count Basie and the Kansas City 7
16	Max Roach	It's Time
17	Jackie Paris	The Song Is Paris
18	McCoy Tyner	Inception
19	Manny Albam	Jazz Goes to the Movies
20	Shelly Manne	2-3-4
21	John Coltrane	Coltrane
22	Curtis Fuller	Cabin in the Sky
23	Roy Haynes	Out of the Afternoon
24	Michael Brown	Alarums and Excursions
25	Oscar Brand	Morality
26	Duke Ellington	Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins
27	Freddie Hubbard	The Artistry of Freddie Hubbard
28	Coleman Hawkins	Desafinado
29	Chico Hamilton	Passin' Thru
30	John Coltrane & Duke Ellington	Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
31	George Wein	George Wein & the Newport All-Stars
32	John Coltrane	Ballads
33	McCoy Tyner	Reaching Fourth
34	Coleman Hawkins	Today and Now
35	Charles Mingus	The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
36	Various Artists	Americans in Europe Vol. 1
37	Various Artists	Americans in Europe Vol. 2
38	Freddie Hubbard	The Body & the Soul
39	McCoy Tyner	Nights of Ballads & Blues
40	John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman	John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman
41	Paul Gonsalves	Cleopatra Feelin' Jazzy
42	John Coltrane	Impressions
43	Sonny Stitt	Now!
44	Beverly Jenkins	Gordon Jenkins Presents My Wife the Blues Singer
45	Art Blakey	A Jazz Message
46	Gary McFarland	Point of Departure
47	Gloria Coleman	Soul Sisters
48	McCoy Tyner	Live at Newport
49	Elvin Jones & Jimmy Garrison	Illumination!
50	John Coltrane	Live at Birdland
51	Shirley Scott	For Members Only
52	Sonny Stitt & Paul Gonsalves	Salt and Pepper
53	Freda Payne	After the Lights Go Down Low and Much More!!!
54	Charles Mingus	Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus
55	Paul Gonsalves	Tell It the Way It Is!
56	Yusef Lateef	Jazz 'Round the World
57	Johnny Hartman	I Just Dropped By to Say Hello
58	Terry Gibbs	Take It from Me
59	Chico Hamilton	Man from Two Worlds
60	Charles Mingus	Mingus Plays Piano
61	Johnny Hodges	Everybody Knows Johnny Hodges
62	Lorez Alexandria	Alexandria the Great
63	McCoy Tyner	Today and Tomorrow
64	Clark Terry	The Happy Horns of Clark Terry
65	Ben Webster	See You at the Fair
66	John Coltrane	Crescent
67	Shirley Scott	Great Scott!!
68	J. J. Johnson	Proof Positive
69	Yusef Lateef	Live at Pep's
70	Milt Jackson	Jazz 'n' Samba
71	Archie Shepp	Four for Trane
72	Billy Taylor & Quincy Jones	My Fair Lady Loves Jazz
73	Shirley Scott	Everybody Loves a Lover
74	Johnny Hartman	The Voice That Is!
75	Oliver Nelson	More Blues and the Abstract Truth
76	Lorez Alexandria	More of the Great Lorez Alexandria
77	John Coltrane	A Love Supreme
78	Lionel Hampton	You Better Know It!!!
79	McCoy Tyner	McCoy Tyner Plays Ellington
80	The Russian Jazz Quartet	Happiness
81	Shirley Scott	Queen of the Organ
82	Chico Hamilton	Chic Chic Chico
83	Lambert, Hendricks & Ross	Sing a Song of Basie
84	Yusef Lateef	1984
85	John Coltrane	The John Coltrane Quartet Plays
86	Archie Shepp	Fire Music
87	Coleman Hawkins	Wrapped Tight
88	Elvin Jones	Dear John C.
89	Lawrence Brown	Inspired Abandon
90	Various Artists	The New Wave in Jazz
91	Sonny Rollins	Sonny Rollins on Impulse!
92	Yusef Lateef	Psychicemotus
93	Shirley Scott	Latin Shadows
94	John Coltrane & Archie Shepp	New Thing at Newport
95	John Coltrane	Ascension 1
95	John Coltrane	Ascension 2
96	Pee Wee Russell & Marshall Brown	Ask Me Now!
97	Archie Shepp	On This Night
98	Dannie Richmond	"In" Jazz for the Culture Set
99	Various Artists	Definitive Jazz Scene 1
100	Various Artists	Definitive Jazz Scene 2
1972	Various Artists	Irrepressible Impulses
9101	Various Artists	Definitive Jazz Scene 3
9102	Chico Hamilton	El Chico
9103	John Lee Hooker	It Serve You Right to Suffer
9104	Gary McFarland & Clark Terry	Tijuana Jazz
9105	Gábor Szabó	Gypsy '66
9106	John Coltrane	Kulu Se Mama
9107	Louis Bellson	Thunderbird
9108	Earl Hines	Once Upon a Time
9109	Shirley Scott	On a Clear Day
9110	John Coltrane	Meditations
9111	Sonny Rollins	Alfie
9112	Gary McFarland	Profiles
9113	Oliver Nelson	Oliver Nelson Plays Michelle
9114	Chico Hamilton	The Further Adventures of El Chico
9115	Stanley Turrentine	Let It Go
9116	Benny Carter	Additions to Further Definitions
9117	Yusef Lateef	A Flat, G Flat and C
9118	Archie Shepp	Archie Shepp Live in San Francisco
9119	Shirley Scott	Roll 'Em: Shirley Scott Plays the Big Bands
9120	John Coltrane	Expression
9121	Sonny Rollins	East Broadway Run Down
9122	Gary McFarland & Gábor Szabó	Simpático
9123	Gábor Szabó	Spellbinder
9124	John Coltrane	Live at the Village Vanguard Again!
9125	Yusef Lateef	The Golden Flute
9126	Roswell Rudd	Everywhere
9127	Clark Terry & Chico O'Farrill	Spanish Rice
9128	Gábor Szabó	Jazz Raga
9129	Oliver Nelson	Sound Pieces
9130	Chico Hamilton	The Dealer
9131	Zoot Sims	Waiting Game
9132	Hank Jones & Oliver Nelson	Happenings
9133	Shirley Scott & Clark Terry	Soul Duo
9134	Archie Shepp	Mama Too Tight
9135	Chico O'Farrill	Nine Flags
9136	Gary McFarland & Steve Kuhn	The October Suite
9137	Pee Wee Russell & Henry "Red" Allen	The College Concert
9138	Pharoah Sanders	Tauhid
9139	Marion Brown	Three for Shepp
9140	John Coltrane	Om
9141	Shirley Scott	Girl Talk
9142	Mal Waldron	Sweet Love, Bitter (Soundtrack)
9143	Phil Woods	Greek Cooking
9144	Oliver Nelson	The Kennedy Dream
9145	Various Artists	Intercollegiate Music Festival 1
9146	Gábor Szabó	The Sorcerer
9147	Pee Wee Russell & Oliver Nelson	The Spirit of '67
9148	John Coltrane	Cosmic Music
9149	Dizzy Gillespie	Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac
9150	Jazzbo Collins	A Lovely Bunch of Jazzbo Collins and the Bandidos
9151	Gábor Szabó	Wind, Sky and Diamonds
9152	Mel Brown	Chicken Fat
9153	Oliver Nelson	Live from Los Angeles
9154	Archie Shepp	The Magic of Ju-Ju
9155	Albert Ayler	Albert Ayler in Greenwich Village
9156	Alice Coltrane	A Monastic Trio
9157	Clark Terry	It's What's Happenin'
9158	Rolf Kühn & Joachim Kühn	Impressions of New York
9159	Gábor Szabó and Bob Thiele	Light My Fire
9160	Elvin Jones & Richard Davis	Heavy Sounds
9161	John Coltrane	Selflessness: Featuring My Favorite Things
9162	Archie Shepp	Three for a Quarter, One for a Dime
9163	Tom Scott	The Honeysuckle Breeze
9164	Bill Plummer and the Cosmic Brotherhood	Bill Plummer and the Cosmic Brotherhood
9165	Albert Ayler	Love Cry
9166	Emil Richards	Journey to Bliss
9167	Gábor Szabó	More Sorcery
9168	Oliver Nelson & Steve Allen	Soulful Brass
9169	Mel Brown	The Wizard
9170	Archie Shepp	The Way Ahead
9171	Tom Scott	Rural Still Life
9172	Various Artists	Irrepressible Impulses
9173	Gábor Szabó	Best Of
9174	Chico Hamilton	Best Of
9175	Albert Ayler	New Grass
9176	Ahmad Jamal	At the Top - Poinciana Revisited
9177
9178	Ornette Coleman	Ornette at 12
9179
9180	Mel Brown	Blues for We
9181	Pharoah Sanders	Karma
9182	Emil Richards	Spirit of 1976
9183	Charlie Haden	Liberation Music Orchestra
9184	Dave MacKay & Vicky Hamilton	Dave MacKay and Vicky Hamilton
9185	Alice Coltrane	Huntington Ashram Monastery
9186	Mel Brown	I'd Rather Suck My Thumb
9187	Ornette Coleman	Crisis
9188	Archie Shepp	For Losers
9189	Milt Jackson	That's the Way It Is
9190	Pharoah Sanders	Jewels of Thought
9191	Albert Ayler	Music Is the Healing Force of the Universe
9192	Buddy Montgomery	This Rather Than That
9193	Jackson & Ray Brown	Memphis Jackson
9194	Ahmad Jamal	The Awakening
9195	John Coltrane	Transition
9196	Alice Coltrane	Ptah, the El Daoud
9197	Clifford Coulter	East Side San Jose
9198	Dave MacKay & Vicky Hamilton	Rainbow
9199	Pharoah Sanders	Deaf Dumb Blind (Summun Bukmun Umyun)
9200	John Coltrane	His Greatest Years 1
9201
9202	John Coltrane	Live in Seattle
9203	Alice Coltrane	Journey in Satchidananda
9204	Gábor Szabó	His Great Hits
9205	Genesis	Trespass
9206	Pharoah Sanders	Thembi
9207	Howard Roberts	Antelope Freeway
9208	Albert Ayler	The Last Album
9209	Mel Brown	Mel Brown's Fifth
9210	Alice Coltrane	Universal Consciousness
9211	John Coltrane	Sun Ship
9212	Archie Shepp	Things Have Got to Change
9213	Chico Hamilton	His Great Hits
9214	John Klemmer	Constant Throb
9215	Michael White	Spirit Dance
9216	Clifford Coulter	Do It Now!
9217	Ahmad Jamal	Freeflight
9218	Alice Coltrane	World Galaxy
9219	Pharoah Sanders	Black Unity
9220	John Klemmer	Waterfalls
9221	Michael White	Pneuma
9222	Archie Shepp	Attica Blues
9223	John Coltrane	His Greatest Years 2
9224	Alice Coltrane	Lord of Lords
9225	Alice Coltrane	John Coltrane: Infinity
9226	Ahmad Jamal	Outertimeinnerspace
9227	Pharoah Sanders	Live at the East
9228	Various Artists	Impulse Energy Essentials
9229	Pharoah Sanders	Best Of
9230	Milt Jackson Quintet featuring Ray Brown	Just the Way It Had to Be
9231	Archie Shepp	The Cry of My People
9232	Alice Coltrane	Reflection on Creation and Space
9233	Pharoah Sanders	Wisdom Through Music
9234	Charles Mingus	Reevaluation: The Impulse Years
9235	McCoy Tyner	Reevaluation: The Impulse Years
9236	Sonny Rollins	Reevaluation: The Impulse Years
9237	Freddie Hubbard	Reevaluation: The Impulse Years
9238	Ahmad Jamal	Tranquility
9239	Sun Ra	Atlantis
9240	Keith Jarrett	Fort Yawuh
9241	Michael White	The Land of Spirit and Light
9242	Sun Ra	The Nubians of Plutonia
9243	Sun Ra	The Magic City
9244	John Klemmer	Intensity
9245	Sun Ra	Angels and Demons at Play
9246	John Coltrane	Live in Japan
9247	Gary Saracho	En Medio
9248	Gato Barbieri	Chapter One: Latin America
9249	Mel Brown	Big Foot Country Girl
9250	Dewey Redman	The Ear of the Behearer
9251	Sam Rivers	Streams
9252	Marion Brown	Geechee Recollections
9253	Various Artists	The Saxophone
9254	Pharoah Sanders	Village of the Pharoahs
9255	Sun Ra	Astro Black
9256	Duke Ellington	Reevaluation: The Impulse Years
9257	Albert Ayler	Reevaluation: The Impulse Years
9258	Coleman Hawkins	Reevaluation: The Impulse Years
9259	Yusef Lateef	Reevaluation: The Impulse Years
9260	Ahmad Jamal	Reevaluation: The Impulse Years
9261	Pharoah Sanders	Elevation
9262	Archie Shepp	Kwanza
9263	Gato Barbieri	Chapter Two: Hasta Siempre
9264	Various Artists	Impulse Artists on Tour
9265	Sun Ra	Jazz In Silhouette
9266	Various Artists	Impulsively
9267	Various Artists	No Energy Crisis
9268	Michael White	Father Music, Mother Dance
9269	John Klemmer	Magic and Movement
9270	Sun Ra	Fate in a Pleasant Mood
9271	Sun Ra	Supersonic Sounds
9272	Various Artists	The Drums
9273	John Coltrane	The Africa/Brass Sessions, Volume 2
9274	Keith Jarrett	Treasure Island
9275	Marion Brown	Sweet Earth Flying
9276	Sun Ra	Bad and Beautiful
9277	John Coltrane	Interstellar Space
9278	John Coltrane	His Greatest Years 3
9279	Gato Barbieri	Chapter Three: Viva Emiliano Zapata
9280	Pharoah Sanders	Love in Us All
9281	Michael White	Go with the Flow
9282	Milt Jackson	The Impulse Years
9283	Elvin Jones	The Impulse Years
9284	Various Artists	The Bass
9285	Various Artists	Ellingtonia 2
9286	Sam Rivers	Crystals
9287	Sun Ra	Night of the Purple Moon (not released)
9288	Sun Ra	Sun Ra and his Solar Arkestra Visits Planet Earth (not released)
9289	Sun Ra	My Brother, the Wind (not released)
9290	Sun Ra	Sound Sun Pleasure!! (not released)
9291	Sun Ra	Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy (not released)
9292	Sun Ra	We Travel the Space Ways (not released)
9293	Sun Ra	Other Planes of There (not released)
9294	Sun Ra	Art Forms of Dimensions Tomorrow (not released)
9295	Sun Ra	Monorails and Satellites (not released)
9296	Sun Ra	Cymbals (not released)
9297	Sun Ra	Crystal Spears (not released)
9298	Sun Ra	Pathways to Unknown Worlds
9299	Howard Roberts	Equinox Express Elevator
9300	Dewey Redman	Coincide
9301	Keith Jarrett	Death and the Flower
9302	Sam Rivers	Hues
9303	Gato Barbieri	Chapter Four: Alive in New York
9304	Marion Brown	Vista
9305	Keith Jarrett	Backhand
9306	John Coltrane	The Gentle Side of John Coltrane
9307	Lucky Thompson	Dancing Sunbeam
9308	Brass Fever	Brass Fever
9309
9310	Yusef Lateef	Club Date
9311	Gloria Lynne	I Don't Know How to Love Him
9312	Sonny Criss	Warm and Sonny
9313	Jimmy Ponder	Illusions
9314	John Handy	Hard Work
9315	Keith Jarrett	Mysteries
9316	Sam Rivers	Sizzle
9317	Bobby Blue Bland & B.B. King	Bobby Bland and B.B. King Together Again...Live
9318	Wade Marcus	Metamorphosis
9319	Brass Fever	Time Is Running Out
9320
9321	Betty Carter	What a Little Moonlight Can Do
9322	Keith Jarrett	Shades
9323
9324	John Handy	Carnival
9325	John Coltrane	The Other Village Vanguard Tapes 11/61
9326	Sonny Criss	The Joy of Sax
9327	Jimmy Ponder	White Room
9328	Blue Mitchell	African Violet
9329	Les McCann	Music Lets Me Be
9330	Grady Tate	Master Grady Tate
9331	Keith Jarrett	Byablue
9332	John Coltrane	First Meditations
9333	Les McCann	Live at the Roxy
9334	Keith Jarrett	Bop-Be
9335	Oliver Nelson	Three Dimensions
9336	Albert Ayler	The Village Concerts
9337	Kenny Dorham / Sonny Criss	The Bopmasters
9338	McCoy Tyner	The Early Trios
9339	Various Artists	The New Breed
9340	Gil Evans & Gary McFarland	The Great Arrangers
9341	Shirley Scott	The Great Live Sessions
9342	Quincy Jones	The Quintessential Charts
9343	Hugh Masekela	The African Connection
9344
9345	John Coltrane	The Mastery of John Coltrane, Vol. 1: Feelin' Good
9346	John Coltrane	The Mastery of John Coltrane, Vol. 2: To the Beat of a Different Drum
9347	Blue Mitchell	Summer Soft
9348	Keith Jarrett	Best Of
9349	Sonny Rollins	There Will Never Be Another You
9350	Duke Ellington	The Great Tenor Encounters
9351	Count Basie	Retrospective Sessions
9352	Sam Rivers	The Trio Sessions
9353	Yusef Lateef	The Live Session
9354	Tom Scott / John Klemmer / Gato Barbieri	Foundations
9355
9356	Paul Horn	Plenty of Horn
9357	Archie Shepp	Further Fire Music
9358
9359	Pee Wee Russell	Salute to Newport
9360	John Coltrane	The Mastery of John Coltrane, Vol. 3: Jupiter Variation
9361	John Coltrane	The Mastery of John Coltrane, Vol. 4: Trane's Modes

1987-present[]

Teodross Avery

• 1995: My Generation

Black Note

• 1995: Nothin' but the Swing

Henry Butler

• 1987: The Village (with Ron Carter, Jack DeJohnette, John Purcell, Alvin Batiste, Bob Stewart)^[1]

Michael Brecker

• 1987: Michael Brecker
• 1988: Don't Try This at Home
• 1996: Tales from the Hudson
• 1998: Two Blocks from the Edge

Alice Coltrane

• 2004: Translinear Light

Jack DeJohnette

• 1987: Irresistible Forces
• 1988: Audio-Visualscapes

Donald Harrison

• 1996: Nouveau Swing
• 1997: Free to Be

Henry Johnson

• 1986: You're the One
• 1988: Future Excursions

Diana Krall

• 1996: All for You: a Dedication to the Nat King Cole Trio
• 1997: Love Scenes
• 1998: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

Machito

• 1988: Machito & His Salsa Big Band^[2]

Russell Malone

• 1998: Sweet Georgia Peach

Danilo Pérez

• 1996: Panamonk

Eric Reed

• 1996: Musicale

Horace Silver

• 1996: The Hardbop Grandpop
• 1997: A Prescription for the Blues

Greg Tardy

• 1997: Serendipity

McCoy Tyner

• 1987: Blues for Coltrane
• 1995: Infinity
• 1997: What the World Needs Now
• 2001: McCoy Tyner Plays John Coltrane

Various artists

• 1998: Jazz Underground: Live at Smalls

References[]