Discography

Albums

• 1949: J. J. Johnson (Savoy)
• 1949: J. J. Johnson’s Jazz Quintets
• 1949: J. J. Johnson’s Boppers (Fantasy)
• 1949: J. J. Johnson with Sonny Stitt (OJC)
• 1952: Jazz South Pacific (Savoy)
• 1953: The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson Volume 1 Blue Note
• 1955: The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson Volume 2 Blue Note
• 1957: First Place American Jazz Classics
• 1957: Blue Trombone American Jazz Classics
• 1957: Stan Getz and J.J. Johnson at the Opera House
• 1960: J.J. Inc. Columbia
• 1963: J.J.’s Broadway (Verve)
• 1964: J.J.! (RCA)
• 1964: Proof Positive (Impulse!)
• 1965: Goodies (RCA)
• 1966: The Total (RCA)
• 1966: Broadway Express (RCA)
• 1977: The Yokohama Concert Pablo
• 1977: Chain Reaction: Yokohama Concert, Vol. 2 Pablo (released in 2002)
• 1979: Pinnacles OJC
• 1982: Aurex Jazz Festival ’82 All Star Jam Somethin’ Else Classics TOCJ
• 1983: Jackson, Johnson, Brown and Company Fantasy
• 1983: We’ll Be Together Again – J.J. Johnson and Joe Pass OJC
• 1984: Things Are Getting Better All the Time (w/ Al Grey) OJC
• 1988: Quintergy Antilles
• 1988: Standards Antilles
• 1992: Vivian Concord
• 1992: Let’s Hang Out Verve
• 1994: Carnegie Hall Salutes the Jazz Masters Verve
• 1994: Tangence (with the Robert Farnon Orchestra) Verve
• 1996: The Brass Orchestra Verve
• 1998: Heroes Verve

With Kai Winding as co-leader

• 1954: Jay and Kai (Savoy)
• 1954: An Afternoon at Birdland
• 1954: Jay and Kai (Prestige)
• 1955: K + J.J. (Bethlehem)
• 1955: ‘Nuf Said (Bethlehem)
• 1956: Trombone for Two (Columbia)
• 1956: Jay and Kai (Columbia)
• 1956: Jay and Kai + 6 (Columbia)
• 1960: The Great Kai & J. J. (Impulse!)
• 1968: Israel (A&M/CTI)
• 1968: Betwixt & Between (A&M/CTI)
• 1969: Stonebone (A&M/CTI (Japan))

As sideman

With Cannonball Adderley

• Julian “Cannonball” Adderley (EmArcy, 1955)

With Nat Adderley

• Sayin’ Somethin’ (Atlantic, 1966)

With Count Basie

• Basie Jam (1973)
• Count Basie with Joe Turner – The Bosses (1973)
• Count Basie- Kansas City 7 (Pablo, 1980) Pablo

With Kenny Burrell

• Night Song (Verve, 1969)

With Miles Davis

• The Birth of the Cool (Capitol, 1949)
• Walkin’ (Prestige, 1954)

With Paul Desmond

• Summertime (A&M/CTI, 1968)

With Kenny Dorham

• Afro-Cuban (Blue Note, 1955)

With Dizzy Gillespie

• Dee Gee Days: The Savoy Sessions (Savoy, 1951-52 [1976])
• Afro (Norgran, 1954)
• Dizzy and Strings (Norgran, 1954)
• Perceptions (Verve, 1961) – composer and arranger

With Benny Golson

• The Modern Touch (Riverside, 1957)

With Coleman Hawkins

• The Hawk Flies High (1957)

With Milt Jackson

• Bebop (East West, 1988)

With Elvin Jones

• And Then Again (Atlantic, 1965)

With Oliver Nelson

• Happenings with Hank Jones (Impulse!, 1966)

With Chico O’Farrill

• Nine Flags (Impulse!, 1966)

With Sonny Rollins

• Sonny Rollins, Vol. 2 (Blue Note, 1957)

With Moacir Santos

• Carnival of the Spirits (Blue Note, 1975)

With Lalo Schifrin

• New Fantasy (Verve, 1964)
• Once a Thief and Other Themes (Verve, 1965)

With Horace Silver

• The Cape Verdean Blues (Blue Note, 1965)

With Steve Turre

• Steve Turre (Verve, 1996)

Soundtracks

• Across 110th Street (c. 1972) Rykodisc 10706
• Willie Dynamite – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1974) Hip-O Select B000362202
• Cleopatra Jones – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to (1974) Warner Bros. B00005B471