Kirk Lightsey

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The Chet Baker Quintet Jimmy Raney Quartet Roots Dexter Gordon Quartet Saheb Sarbib Quintet The Johnny Griffin Quartet Kirk Lightsey Quartet Noga & Quartet Kirk Lightsey Trio The Harold Land / Blue Mitchell Quintet Agostino Di Giorgio Trio Clifford Jordan Quintet The Mallory-Hall Band The Leaders Trio Kirk Lightsey Quintet

ex Rufus Reid Trio, David Murray Quartet, The Leaders, Brian Lynch Sextet

American jazz pianist, born 15 February 1937 in Detroit, Michigan, USA

ALBUMS

Live At Smalls Jazz Club

2022, CD, Album, Cellar Music (2),

Arbenz* ☓ Lightsey*, Arbenz* ☓ Lightsey* / Elekes* / Landolf*

Conversation #6: Radix, Conversation #7: Synopsis

I Will Never Stop Loving You

2021, CD, Album, JOJO,

Marilena Paradisi / Kirk Lightsey

Some Place Called Where

2017, CD, Album, Losen Records

Tibor Elekes, Don Moye*, Kirk Lightsey

2015, CD, Album, Unit Records (2)

Solo Piano En Argentina

2013, CD, Album, RivoRecords,

Lightsey To Gladden

2008, CD, Album, Criss Cross Jazz

Louise Gibbs & Kirk Lightsey

Everybody’s Song But Our Own

2008, CD, Album, 33 Records

Lightsey*, Moye*, Elekes*

2006, CD, Album, Itinera

Three Baritone Saxophone Band / Kirk Lightsey - Doug Sides Blues Trio Feat. DeBorah Herbert / Mahmoud Fadl & The Drummers Of The Nile Feat. Katharina Joumana / Mercadonegro / Al Foster Quartet

2006, CDr, Comp, Ltd, Promo, Half Note Jazz Club,

Salsa/Timba/Cumbia/Son Montuno

The Nights Of Bradley's

2004, CD, Album, Sunnyside Communications,

Bop/Post Bop/Modal

Ricky Ford, Kirk Lightsey

2003, CD, Album, Jazz Friends Productions

Agostino Di Giorgio Trio Feat. Kirk Lightsey and Marc Abrams

2001, CD, Album, Dig, Fonó Records

Roots (8), Arthur Blythe, Nathan Davis, Chico Freeman, Benny Golson, Kirk Lightsey, Buster Williams, Ed Thigpen Special Guest Claudio Roditi

2000, CD, Album, In+Out Records, In+Out Records

Tony Lakatos, Kirk Lightsey, Al Foster, George Mraz

Miriam Klein, Kirk Lightsey

Ballads For Loving Kindness

1994, CD, Album, Divox

Jeri Brown Featuring Rufus Reid, Kirk Lightsey, Wali Muhammad, Peter Leitch

"Unfolding" The Peacocks

1993, CD, Album, Justin Time,

Kirk Lightsey, Kirk Lightsey Trio

Tony Lakatos / Al Foster / Kirk Lightsey / Tibor Elekes

Stephanie Crawford, Kirk Lightsey, Hein Van de Geyn, Sangoma Everett

1992, CD, OMD (3),

Lennart Ginman / Kirk Lightsey

Contemporary Jazz/Cool Jazz

Sangoma Everett / Kirk Lightsey / Riccardo Del Fra

1986, CD, Album, Sunnyside

1984, LP, Album, Sunnyside

Kirk Lightsey & Harold Danko

Shorter By Two (The Music Of Wayne Shorter Played On Two Pianos)

Jimmy Raney Quartet Featuring Kirk Lightsey

Kirk Lightsey And Rudolph Johnson With The All Stars

Kurt Weill - Jazz-Songs

Contemporary Jazz/Vocal

Kirk Lightsey Trio

Goodbye Mr. Evans

1996, CD, Album, Evidence (5),

Bop/Post Bop/Modal

Saying Something

Slipping And Sliding

David Murray Quartet

1990, VHS, Charly Video,

Big Band/Dixieland/Swing

The Leaders Trio

1989, CD, Album, Sunnyside

Unforeseen Blessings

Free Jazz/Contemporary Jazz

Out Here Like This...

Contemporary Jazz

Kirk Lightsey Quartet

Brian Lynch Sextet

Kirk Lightsey Quartet

Everything Is Changed

Saheb Sarbib Quintet

It Couldn't Happen Without You

Kirk Lightsey Trio

Rufus Reid Trio

Perpetual Stroll

The Harold Land / Blue Mitchell Quintet

The Mallory-Hall Band

The Last Special

The Mallory-Hall Band

The Chet Baker Quintet

Boppin' With The Chet Baker Quintet

The Chet Baker Quintet

Cool Burnin' With The Chet Baker Quintet

Cool Jazz/Hard Bop

The Chet Baker Quintet

Comin' On With The Chet Baker Quintet

The Chet Baker Quintet

Groovin' With The Chet Baker Quintet

The Chet Baker Quintet

Smokin' With The Chet Baker Quintet

Hard Bop/Cool Jazz

Dexter Gordon Quartet

San Francisco '82

The Chet Baker Quintet

Comin' On With The Chet Baker Quintet

APPEARANCES +

Klaus-Werner Pusch Quintet And Klaus-Werner Pusch - Kirk Lightsey Ensemble

2024, LP, Album, Dlx, Ltd, RE, Gat, uniSono Records

Arbenz X - Conversation Series #1 - #12

2024, Box Set, Vinyl Conversation #1, 2x Vinyl Conversation #2 & #3, Vinyl Conversation #4, Vinyl Conversation #5, 2x Vinyl Conversation #6 & #7, Vinyl Conversation #8, Vinyl Conversation #9, Vinyl Conversation #10, 2x Vinyl Conversation #11 & #12,

Contemporary Jazz/Avant-garde Jazz

Great Moments With Chet Baker

Copenhagen Coda

2023, CD, Album, Storyville

Wendell Harrison

2022, CD, Album, PAO Records,

Detroit Jazz City Workshop Jazz Singles 1962-63

2021, LP, Album, Honey Pie Records (2)

On Both Sides of the Atlantic

2020, CD, Gaya Music Production,

Contemporary Jazz

Sapphire Dreams

2019, CD, Album, PAO Records

2019, CD, Album, Jazzheads

Live At The Playboy Jazz Festival

2018, LP, Album, RSD, Ltd, Run Out Groove, Elektra, Elektra Musician,

Chiara Pancaldi

What Is There To Say

2017, CD, Album, Challenge Records (3), Challenge Records (3),

Contemporary Jazz

From C To Shining Sea

2016, CD, Album, PAO Records

Krzysztof Popek

Fresh Air Project

2016, CD, Album, Power Bros Records,

Contemporary Jazz

2015, LP, Album, Ltd, 180, Venus Records (5),

2015, SACD, Hybrid, Car, Pony Canyon

Chet Baker Trio

Friendly Bacteria

2014, 2x Vinyl,

Breaks/Downtempo

North Sea Jazz Legendary Concerts

2013, LP, Comp, Ltd, Music On Vinyl,

2013, CD, Album, SOJazz Records,

Contemporary Jazz

Stéphane Belmondo

2013, CD, Album, Universal Music France,

North Sea Jazz Legendary Concerts

The Kirk Lightsey Trio*

If You're Not Having Fun By Now...

I Grandi Concerti - Volume 3

2011, CD, Comp, Regione Siciliana,

Dexter Gordon Quintet

At The Village Gate 1976

2011, CD, Domino Records (7)

Stéphane Belmondo

The Same As It Never Was Before

The Complete Columbia Albums Collection

2011, Box Set, 7x CD,

David Murray, Chico Freeman With Özay

David Murray, Chico Freeman With Özay

2010, CD, Album, ITM Records (2),

Contemporary Jazz/Vocal

The Complete Remastered Recordings On Black Saint & Soul Note

2010, 3xCD, Album, RE, RM + Box, Comp, Black Saint, Soul Note,

Free Jazz/Contemporary Jazz

Johnny Griffin Quartet*

2010, CD, Album, Multisonic

2009, CD, Album, Not On Label (Asia Lisiak Self-released)

2007, CD, Album, Heavenly Sweetness,

A Tear / Dope Of Power Suite

2007, 7", Heavenly Sweetness

2006, CD, Comp, Musica Jazz,

Post Bop/Fusion/Free Jazz

The Complete Motown Singles / Vol. 3: 1963

2005, 7", Single, RP + 5xCD, Comp, Ltd, RM, Hip-O Select, Motown,

Rock & Roll/Country Rock/Soul/Rhythm & Blues/Doo Wop/Gospel/Comedy

Trilogy Collection

2005, 3xCD, Comp, Sound Reason

Rufus Beck, Chet Baker

The Chet Baker‎ Story

2005, 2xCD, Comp, Fantasy, Prestige, Riverside Records, Galaxy, Jazzland,

Ricky Ford Quintet

Green Note - Live At La Fenêtre

2005, CD, Album, Marge

Fuller Nelson: The Second Time Around

2004, CD, Album, Sunnyside

Stephanie Crawford

2004, CDr, Comp, SC Productions (2)

Bop/Bossa Nova/Latin Jazz/Cool Jazz

Gunther Schuller With WDR Radio Orchestra* & The Remembrance Band

Witchi-Tai-To (The Music Of Jim Pepper)

2002, 2xCD, Album, TUTU Records (2),

2002, CD, C.C. Bee Music

2001, CD, Album, Ltd, Num, meta records (3)

2001, CD, Album, Big City

Stormy Monday Blues

Bop/Contemporary Jazz

Claus Reichstaller

2000, CD, Conception Records (2)

Jazz That Swings

1999, CD, Comp, RE, 32 Jazz,

Instrumental/Easy Listening

1999, CD, Comp, 32 Jazz

Solid (Moontrane & Imagination & Solid)

1999, 2xCD, Comp, Camden Deluxe, BMG,

The Collected James Moody

Contemporary Jazz

Jazz For A Rainy Afternoon

1998, CD, Comp, Jazz Heritage

Jazz For A Rainy Afternoon

1998, CD Q Pack™,

Post Bop/Hard Bop/Swing

Javon Jackson / Billy Pierce

1997, CD, Album, Criss Cross Jazz,

1997, CD, Comp, Columbia,

A Night Out With Verve Sampler

1996, CD, Promo, Smplr, Verve Records,

Bop/Hard Bop/Big Band/Swing/Cool Jazz

Lonely Star (The Prestige Sessions)

The Best Of Black Jazz Records 1971-1976

1996, 2x Vinyl Gatefold,

Soul-Jazz/Jazz-Funk

On A Misty Night (The Prestige Sessions)

A Night Out With Verve

1996, 4x CD, Box Set,

Bop/Hard Bop/Big Band/Swing/Cool Jazz

In Her Own Sweet Way

Stairway To The Stars (The Prestige Sessions)

Cool Jazz/Hard Bop

Rio (Ballads & Bossa Novas)

1995, CD, Album, Sunnyside

Travellin' Shoes

1995, CD, Album, Mons Records

Little Girl From Memphis: The Show 1925 - 1995

1995, CD, Album, Mons Records

Antiquated Love

1994, CD, Album, Peull Music

Corina Bartra Quartet

Corina Bartra Quartet

1994, CD, Album, Blue Spiral,

Afro-Cuban Jazz

Louis Hayes & Company*

The Super Quartet

1993, CD, Album, Konnex Records

Art Of The Duo (Vol. 1)

1993, CD, Comp, Enja Records

Justin Time Records - A Tenth Anniversary Collection

1993, CD, Album, Comp, Justin Time,

David "Fathead" Newman

House Of David - The David "Fathead" Newman Anthology

Swing/Rhythm & Blues

Marcus Belgrave, Lawrence Williams

Working Together

1992, CD, Album, Detroit Jazz Musicians Co-Op

Cookin' At The Continental

1992, CD, Album, Antilles,

Bop/Soul-Jazz/Hard Bop

Vocal/Ballad/Bop/Swing

Naima (Unusual Chet, Vol. 1)

1991, CD, Comp, Philology

Kirk Lightsey Trio With Kevin Eubanks And Rufus Reid

From Kirk To Nat

1991, CD, Criss Cross Jazz

Marcus Belgrave and Lawrence Williams

1991, Cass, Album, Detroit Jazz Musicians Co-Op

A Merry Jazzmas

Post Bop/Vocal/Contemporary Jazz/Holiday

1990, CD, Album, Sunnyside

Paris Reunion Band

We Remember Klook (Live At The Moonwalker)

1990, CD, Album, Sonet,

Contemporary Jazz/Bop

1990, CD, Album, Sunnyside

Yule Struttin': A Blue Note Christmas

Hard Bop/Big Band/Contemporary Jazz/Easy Listening/Holiday

The Satchmo Legacy Band

Salute To Pops - Vol. 2

1989, CD, Album, Soul Note,

The Satchmo Legacy Band

Salute to Pops-Vol.1

Fire! Live At The Village Vanguard

Hard Bop/Post Bop

Overcome (Live At The Leverkusen Jazz Festival)

Kirk Lightsey Trio Featuring Freddie Hubbard

Kirk Lightsey Quintet Featuring Marcus Belgrave

Le Trombe Del Jazz Moderno

1986, LP, Comp, Musica Jazz,

Bop/Cool Jazz/Hard Bop

Something Special

Clifford Jordan Quintet Featuring Junior Cook

Two Tenor Winner

Jingle Bell Jazz

Bop/Hard Bop/Swing/Holiday

In Performance At The Playboy Jazz Festival

Fusion/Jazz-Funk/Contemporary Jazz/Cool Jazz

Kirk Lightsey Trio with Chet Baker

Everything Happens To Me

American Classic

God Rest Ye Merry, Jazzmen

Hard Bop/Holiday

Great Expectations

Soul-Jazz/Jazz-Funk

1976, LP, Comp, Ovation Records,

Contemporary Jazz/Soul-Jazz

Rudolph Johnson

The Skipper At Home

Proceed With Caution!

Gerry Mulligan, Chet Baker

Mulligan / Baker Vol. II

1973, LP, Comp, Fantasy,

Rudolph Johnson

The Second Coming

Once Upon A Summertime

Gerry Mulligan, Chet Baker

Mulligan / Baker

1972, 2x Vinyl Gatefold,

George Bohanon Quartet

Boss:Bossa Nova

Burnie Peacock Quartet

1962, 7", Burnie's Label

Reel, 4tr Stereo, Comp, 6'', MPS Records

Galloway Big Band

CD, Album, Pramisi Records

CD, Album, RE, RP, Dig, Enja Records, Enja Records

Chet Baker - Hank Jones Quartet

Live In Stockholm 1983

CD, Sweet Sounds

Timeless Jazz Classics Volume 1

Sunnyside Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Volume 1

2007, 2xCD, Comp, Sunnyside

Jazziz On Disc - January 2005 - Critics And Readers Choice The Best Of 2004

2005, CD, Album, Comp, Promo, Jazziz,

The Art Of The Bass

1997, CD, Album, Justin Time,

The Passion In Jazz On Timeless Vol. 1 - In Case You Missed It

1996, CD, Comp, Timeless Records (3)

Jazziz Magazine On-Disc - July 1995

All That… Jazz From Denmark - 1991

1991, CD, Smplr, Stunt Records

Village Vanguard, NYC February '83

2016, 2xCD, RM, Unofficial, Hi Hat

2xCDr, Unofficial, Jazztime (3), Jazztime (3)

At Village Vanguard 1983 - 60th Birthday Show -

2xCDr, Unofficial, Jazztime (3), Jazztime (3)

Acid Rain (Volumes One & Two)

Swing/Contemporary Jazz/Vocal/Ballad