Paul Motian discography

This is the discography of American jazz musician Paul Motian.

As leader

 * Conception Vessel (ECM, 1972 [1973])
 * Tribute (ECM, 1974)
 * Dance (ECM, 1977 [1978])
 * Le voyage (ECM, 1979)
 * Psalm (ECM, 1981 [1982])
 * The Story of Maryam (Soul Note, 1983 [1984])
 * Jack of Clubs (Soul Note, 1984 [1985])
 * It Should've Happened a Long Time Ago (ECM, 1984 [1985])
 * Misterioso (Soul Note, 1986 [1987])
 * One Time Out (Soul Note, 1987 [1989])
 * Monk in Motian (JMT, 1988 [1989])
 * On Broadway Volume 1 (JMT, 1988 [1989])
 * On Broadway Volume 2 (JMT, 1989)
 * Bill Evans (JMT, 1990)
 * Motian in Tokyo (JMT, 1991)
 * On Broadway Volume 3 (JMT, 1991 [1993])
 * Paul Motian and the Electric Bebop Band (JMT, 1992 [1993])
 * Trioism (JMT, 1993 [1994])
 * Reincarnation of a Love Bird (JMT, 1994)
 * At the Village Vanguard (JMT, 1995)
 * Sound of Love (Winter & Winter, 1995 [1997])
 * Flight of the Blue Jay (Winter & Winter, 1996 [1997])
 * Trio 2000 + One (Winter & Winter, 1997 [1998])
 * Play Monk and Powell (Winter & Winter, 1998 [1999])
 * Europe (Winter & Winter, 2000 [2001])
 * Holiday for Strings (Winter & Winter, 2001 [2002])
 * I Have the Room Above Her (ECM, 2004 [2005])
 * Garden of Eden (ECM, 2004 [2007])
 * On Broadway Vol. 4 or The Paradox of Continuity (Winter & Winter, 2005)
 * Time and Time Again (ECM, 2006)
 * Live at the Village Vanguard (Winter & Winter, 2006 [2007])
 * Live at the Village Vanguard Vol. II (Winter & Winter, 2006 [2008])
 * Live at the Village Vanguard Vol. III (Winter & Winter, 2006 [2010])
 * On Broadway Volume 5 (Winter & Winter, 2009)
 * Lost in a Dream (ECM, 2010)
 * The Windmills of Your Mind (Winter & Winter, 2011)

Compilations
 * Selected Recordings (ECM, 2004)

Box Sets
 * Paul Motian - The Complete Remastered Recordings On Black Saint & Soul Note (Compr. the six albums for Soul Note, CAM Jazz, 2010)
 * Paul Motian on Broadway Vol. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (Rec. 1988–2008, Winter & Winter, 2012)
 * Old & New Masters Edition: Paul Motian (Six albums rec. 1972–1984, ECM, 2013)

With Tethered Moon (Trio with Masabumi Kikuchi and Gary Peacock)
 * First Meeting (Winter & Winter, 1990–91, [1997])
 * Tethered Moon (King/Paddle Wheel, 1991 [1992]; Evidence, 1993)
 * Triangle (King/Paddle Wheel, 1991 [1992])
 * Tethered Moon Play Kurt Weill (JMT, 1994 [1995]; reissued on Winter & Winter, 2005)
 * Plays Jimi Hendrix+ (Polydor/Media Rings, 1997 [1998])
 * Chansons d’Édith Piaf (Winter & Winter, 1999 [1999])
 * Experiencing Tosca (Winter & Winter, 2002 [2004])

As sideman
With Michael Adkins With Geri Allen and Charlie Haden With Mose Allison With Derek Bailey
 * Rotator (Hathut Records|HatHut), 2008) with Russ Lossing and John Hébert
 * Flaneur (Hathut Records|HatHut], recorded 2008, released 2018) with Russ Lossing and Larry Grenadier
 * Etudes (Soul Note, 1987); Haden and Motian credited ahead of Allen
 * In the Year of the Dragon (JMT, 1989)
 * Segments (DIW, 1989)
 * The Montreal Tapes: with Geri Allen and Paul Motian (Verve, 1989 [1997]); issued under Haden's name
 * Live at the Village Vanguard (DIW, 1991)
 * I Love the Life I Live (Columbia, 1960)
 * Wild Man on the Loose (Atlantic, 1965)
 * The Earth Wants You (Blue Note, 1993)
 * Gimcracks and Gewgaws (Blue Note, 1997)


 * Duo in Concert (Frozen Reeds, 2023)

With Tim Berne With Samuel Blaser With Carla Bley With Paul Bley With Salvatore Bonafede With Jakob Bro With Bob Brookmeyer With Guillaume de Chassy and Daniel Yvinec With Anders Christensen With Marc Copland With Chick Corea and Eddie Gómez With Eddie Costa With Marilyn Crispell With Furio Di Castri With Jakob Dinesen With Bill Evans With Pierre Favre With Anat Fort With Bill Frisell With Larry Goldings With Alexandra Grimal With Charlie Haden With Yuri Honing With Keith Jarrett
 * Songs and Rituals in Real Time (Empire, 1982; reissue by Screwgun, 1998) with Mack Goldsbury and Ed Schuller
 * The Ancestors (Soul Note, 1982) with Ray Anderson, Mack Goldsbury, C. Herb Robertson and Ed Schuller
 * Mutant Variations (Soul Note, 1984) with C. Herb Robertson and Ed Schuller
 * Consort in Motion (Kind of Blue, 2011) with Russ Lossing and Thomas Morgan
 * Live at Cornelia Street Café (Blaser Music, 2021) with Russ Lossing and Eivind Opsvik
 * Escalator Over The Hill (JCOA, 1971)
 * Turns (Savoy, 1964) with John Gilmore and Gary Peacock (also in part on Improvising Artists’ Turning Point, 1975)
 * Paul Bley with Gary Peacock (ECM, 1970)
 * Fragments (ECM, 1986) with Bill Frisell and John Surman
 * Notes (Soul Note, 1987)
 * The Paul Bley Quartet (ECM, 1987) with Bill Frisell and John Surman
 * Memoirs (Soul Note, 1990) with Charlie Haden
 * Zen Palace (Transheart, 1993) with Steve Swallow
 * Not Two, Not One (ECM, 1998) with Gary Peacock
 * Plays (Ken Music, 1991) with Marc Johnson
 * For the Time Being (CAM Jazz, 2006) with Joe Lovano, Michele Rabbia, Mark Dresser and Adam Rogers
 * Balladeering (Loveland, 2009) with Bill Frisell, Lee Konitz and Ben Street
 * Jazz Is a Kick (Mercury, 1960)
 * Songs from the Last Century (Bee Jazz, 2009) with Marc Murphy
 * Dear Someone (Stunt, 2010) with Aaron Parks
 * New York Trio Recordings Vol.2: Voices (Pirouet, 2007) with Gary Peacock
 * Further Explorations (Universal Japan, 2011; international release by Concord Jazz, 2012)
 * Eddie Costa Quintet (Interlude, 1957)
 * Guys and Dolls Like Vibes (Coral/Verve, 1958) with Bill Evans, Wendell Marshall
 * The House of Blue Lights (Dot, 1959) with Wendell Marshall
 * Live in Zurich (Leo, 1990)
 * Nothing Ever Was, Anyway: Music of Annette Peacock (ECM, 1997)
 * Amaryllis (ECM, 2000)
 * Storyteller (ECM, 2003)
 * Unknown Voyage (A Tempo, 1988) with Joe Lovano
 * Around (Stunt, 2001) with Kurt Rosenwinkel
 * Dino (Stunt, 2009) with Anders Christensen
 * New Jazz Conceptions (Riverside, 1957)
 * Portrait in Jazz (Riverside, 1959)
 * Explorations (Riverside, 1961)
 * Sunday at the Village Vanguard (Riverside, 1961)
 * Waltz for Debby (Riverside, 1962)
 * How My Heart Sings! (Riverside, 1962)
 * Moon Beams (Riverside, 1962)
 * Nirvana with Herbie Mann (Atlantic, 1962)
 * Trio 64 (Verve, 1963)
 * Singing Drums (ECM, 1984)
 * A Long Story (ECM, 2004 [2007])
 * Rambler (ECM, 1985)
 * Bill Frisell, Ron Carter, Paul Motian (Nonesuch, 2006)
 * Bill Frisell, Ron Carter, Paul Motian EP (Nonesuch, 2006) - Download exclusive
 * Awareness (Warner Bros, 1997) with Larry Grenadier
 * Owls Talk (Aparte/Harmonia Mundi, 2012) with Lee Konitz and Gary Peacock
 * Liberation Music Orchestra (Impulse!, 1969)
 * Closeness (Horizon/Verve, 1976)
 * The Ballad of the Fallen (ECM, 1982)
 * The Private Collection (Naim, 1987-88 [2000])
 * The Montreal Tapes: with Gonzalo Rubalcaba and Paul Motian (Verve, 1989 [1997])
 * The Montreal Tapes: with Paul Bley and Paul Motian (Verve, 1989 [1994])
 * The Montreal Tapes: Liberation Music Orchestra (Verve, 1989 [1997])
 * Dream Keeper (Blue Note, 1989)
 * Seven (Jazz in Motion, 2001) with Paul Bley and Gary Peacock


 * Life Between the Exit Signs (Vortex, 1967)
 * Somewhere Before (Atlantic, 1968)
 * The Mourning of a Star (Atlantic, 1971)
 * El Juicio (The Judgement) (Atlantic, 1971)
 * Birth (Atlantic, 1971)
 * Expectations (Columbia, 1972)
 * Hamburg '72 (ECM, 1972 [2014])
 * Fort Yawuh (Impulse!, 1973)
 * Treasure Island (Impulse!, 1974)
 * Back Hand (Impulse!, 1974)
 * Death and the Flower (Impulse!, 1974)
 * Mysteries (Impulse!, 1975)
 * Shades (Impulse!, 1975)
 * Bop-Be (Impulse!, 1976)
 * The Survivors' Suite (ECM, 1976)
 * Byablue (Impulse!, 1977)
 * Eyes of the Heart (ECM, 1979)
 * At the Deer Head Inn (ECM, 1992) with Gary Peacock

With Masabumi Kikuchi (see also Tethered Moon) With Frank Kimbrough With Lee Konitz (and Warne Marsh) With Lee Konitz, Brad Mehldau and Charlie Haden With Lee Konitz and Steve Swallow With Rudy Linka With Russ Lossing With Joe Lovano With Warne Marsh With Bill McHenry With Helen Merrill With Sam Most With Simon Nabatov With Stéphan Oliva and Bruno Chevillon With John Patitucci With Enrico Pieranunzi With Augusto Pirodda With Enrico Rava With Gonzalo Rubalcaba With Roswell Rudd With Jacob Sacks and Eivind Opsvik With Saheb Sarbib With Zoot Sims With Martial Solal With Martin Speake With Bobo Stenson With Henri Texier With Pietro Tonolo With Eric Watson and Ed Schuller
 * Sunrise (ECM, 2012) with Thomas Morgan
 * Play (Palmetto, 2006) with Masa Kamaguchi
 * Live at the Half Note (Verve, 1959 [1994]); Warne Marsh's solos from these recordings were issued as The Art of Improvising (Revelation, 1959 [1974})
 * Live at Birdland (ECM, 2009)
 * Three Guys (Enja, 1999)
 * Songs with Larry Grenadier
 * Dreamer (Double Time, 2000)
 * As It Grows (HatHut, 2004)
 * Village Rhythm (Soul Note, 1988) with Kenny Werner, Tom Harrell and Marc Johnson
 * Worlds (Label Bleu, 1989; reissued by Evidence Music, 1995) with Bill Frisell, Tim Hagens, Gary Valente, Judi Silvano, Henri Texier
 * I'm All For You (Blue Note, 2004) with Hank Jones and George Mraz
 * Joyous Encounter (Blue Note, 2005) with Hank Jones and George Mraz
 * Warne Marsh (Atlantic, 1958)
 * Bill McHenry Quartet Featuring Paul Motian (Fresh Sound, 2002)
 * Roses (Sunny Side, 2007)
 * Ghosts of the Sun (Sunny Side, 2011)
 * You and the Night and the Music (Verve, 1998)
 * Most Plays Monk Bird & Miles (Bethlehem (US), Parlophone (UK), 1958)
 * Circle the Line (GM, 1986) and Ed Schuller, Arto Tuncboyaci
 * Fantasm - The Music of Paul Motian (BMG France/RCA Victor, 2000)
 * Intérieur nuit (Night Bird, 2002)
 * One More Angel (Concord, 1997)
 * Untold Story (IDA, 1993; reissue EGEA, 2006) with Marc Johnson
 * Flux and Change (Soul Note, 1995)
 * The Night Gone By (Alfa Jazz, 1996) with Marc Johnson
 * Fellini Jazz (CAM Jazz, 2003) with Kenny Wheeler, Chris Potter and Charlie Haden
 * Doorways (CAM Jazz, 2004) with Chris Potter
 * Special Encounter (CAM Jazz, 2005) with Charlie Haden
 * New York Reflections: Live at Birdland (CAM Jazz, 2012) with Steve Swallow
 * Live at the Village Vanguard (CAM Jazz, 2013) with Marc Johnson
 * No Comment (Jazzwerkstatt, 2011) with Gary Peacock
 * Tati (ECM, 2004)
 * New York Days (ECM, 2008)
 * Discovery: Live at Montreux (Somethin' Else/Blue Note, 1991) with Charlie Haden
 * Blown Bone (Philips, 1979)
 * Two Miles a Day (Yeah Yeah, 2005) with Mat Maneri
 * Seasons (Soul Note, 1982) with Mark Whitecage and Mel Ellison
 * Jazz Alive! A Night at the Half Note (United Artists, 1959) with Al Cohn and Phil Woods
 * At Newport '63 (RCA Victor, 1963)
 * Just Friends (Dreyfus, 1997) with Gary Peacock
 * Balade du 10 Mars (Soul Note, 1999) with Marc Johnson
 * Change of Heart (ECM, 2002) with Bobo Stenson and Mick Hutton
 * Goodbye (ECM, 2005) with Anders Jormin
 * Respect (Label Bleu, 1997) with Bob Brookmeyer, Lee Konitz and Steve Swallow
 * Portrait of Duke (Label Bleu, 2000) with Gil Goldstein and Steve Swallow
 * Your Songs: The Music of Elton John (ObliqSound, 2007) with Gil Goldstein and Steve Swallow
 * Conspiracy (Decca Records France, 1982)