Minton's Playhouse
The house piano at Minton's on 118th Street from about 1941, with Kenny Clarke on drums. The after-hours sessions there are where bebop was worked out.
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The Blue Note sessions
Recorded for Blue Note from October 1947 to 1952: Round Midnight, Ruby, My Dear, Well, You Needn't, Misterioso, Epistrophy.
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The Five Spot
July to December 1957 at the Five Spot Café on the Bowery, with John Coltrane, Wilbur Ware and Shadow Wilson.
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The quartet with Charlie Rouse
From 1959 to 1970, with Charlie Rouse on tenor: the Columbia records and the tours of Europe and Japan.
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