List of works by Milt Hinton


This is a list of works by American jazz musician Milt Hinton.

As leader

78s include:
  • "Everywhere" and "Beefsteak Charlie" : rec. 1945
  • "And Say It Again" : rec. 1947
  • "Just Plain Blues" : rec. 1947
  • "If You Believed in Me" : rec. 1947
  • "Meditation Jeffonese" : rec. 1947
LPs include:
  • Milt Hinton: East Coast Jazz 5 : rec. 1955
  • Basses Loaded : rec. 1955
  • The Rhythm Section : rec. 1956Percussion and Bass : rec. 1960 with Jo Jones
  • Here Swings the Judge : rec. 1964 and 1975
  • Bassically with Blue : rec. 1976
  • The Trio : rec. 1977
  • Just the Two of Us : rec. 1981
  • The Judge's Decision : rec. 1984
CDs include:
  • Back to Bass-ics : rec. 1984
  • Hayward and Hinton : rec. 1987
  • The Basement Tapes : rec. 1989 and 1990
  • Old Man Time : rec. 1989 and 1990
  • Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz with Guest Milt Hinton : rec. 1991
  • The Trio 1994 : rec. 1994
  • Laughing at Life : rec. 1994
  • The Judge at His Best: The Legendary Chiaroscuro Sessions, 1973-1995 : rec. 1973-1995

As sideman

With Louis Bellson and Gene Krupa
With Tony BennettThe Beat of My Heart Hometown, My Town My Heart Sings Tony Makes It Happen Snowfall: The Tony Bennett Christmas Album I've Gotta Be Me
With Teresa BrewerWe Love You Fats Memories of Louis
With Bob Brookmeyer
With John Benson Brooks
With Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
  • Heatwave
With Ruth Brown
With Kenny Burrell
With Benny Carter
With Buck Clayton
With Jimmy Cleveland
With Al Cohn
With Sam Cooke
With Freddy Cole
With Bobby Darin
With Joey DeFrancesco
With Paul Desmond
With Dion DiMucciRunaround Sue
With Jean DuShonFeeling Good
With Ricky Ford
With Aretha Franklin
With Curtis Fuller
With Dizzy Gillespie
With Steve Goodman
  • Say It in Private
With Freddie Green
With Dodo Greene
With Al Grey
With Gigi Gryce
With Lionel Hampton
With Cass Harrison
  • Wrappin' It Up
With Johnny HartmanAll of Me: The Debonair Mr. Hartman I Just Dropped by to Say Hello
With Coleman Hawkins
With Woody Herman
With Johnny Hodges
With John Lee Hooker
With Langston Hughes
With Milt Jackson
With Willis Jackson
With Joni James
  • Songs by Victor Young and Songs by Frank Loesser
With Budd Johnson
With J. J. Johnson and Kai Winding
With Elvin Jones
With Etta Jones
With Hank Jones
With Quincy Jones
With Alex Kallao
  • An Evening at the Embers
With Eddie Kendricks
  • Vintage '78
With Morgana King
With Barbara Lewis
  • It's Magic
With Mundell Lowe
With Johnny Lytle
With Herbie Mann
With Branford Marsalis
With Johnny MathisJohnny Mathis Open Fire, Two Guitars
With Howard McGhee
With Jay McShann
With Helen Merrill
With Bette Midler
With Charles Mingus
With Willie Nelson
With Joe Newman
With Esther Phillips
  • And I Love Him!
With John Pizzarelli
With Ike Quebec
With Della Reese
With Irene Reid
  • It's Only the Beginning
With Leon Redbone
With Jess Roden
  • The Player Not the Game
With Jordan Sandke
With Neil Sedaka
With Zoot Sims
With Frank SinatraThe World We Knew
With Rex Stewart and Cootie Williams
With Sonny Stitt
With Ralph Sutton
With Sylvia Syms
With Buddy Tate
With Clark Terry
With Ben Webster
With Joe Wilder
With Joe Williams
  • Me and the Blues
With Teddy Wilson
With Kai Winding

Select photographic exhibitions

DateLocationExhibition Title
Jan. 30 - April 25, 2015Marshall Fine Arts Center, Haverford College, Haverford, PAAn Exhibition of African American Photographers from the Daguerrian to the Digital Eras
June 2014 – presentConservatory Lounge, Oberlin College Conservatory, Oberlin, OHThe Way I See It: The Photographs of Milt Hinton
Aug. - Dec. 2014Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OHAn Insider's Lens: The Jazz Photography of Milt Hinton
April 4 - Sept. 7, 2014Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CTJazz Lives: The Photographs of Lee Friedlander and Milt Hinton
Jan. 24 - March 4, 2013St. Peter's Church, New York, NYMilt Hinton: Inside Jazz
Nov. 11 - Dec. 12, 2011Baruch College, New York, NYMilt Hinton's Jazz Photographs: Classics and Works in Color
Nov. 4 - Dec. 8, 2010Holyoke Center - Harvard University, Cambridge, MAWitnessing Jazz: Photographs by Milt Hinton
Dec. 4, 2009 - Feb. 28, 2010Westport Arts Center, Westport, CTThe Judge: Jazz Photographs by Milt Hinton
Nov. 7, 2008 - Jan. 11, 2009Chattanooga African American Museum, Chattanooga, TNPlaying the Changes: The Jazz Photographs of Milt Hinton
May 29 - June 19, 2008Jacob Burns Film Center, Pleasantville, NYPlaying the Changes: Milt Hinton's Life in Stories and Photographs
Feb. 8 - March 5, 2008Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College of the City University of New YorkPlaying the Changes: Milt Hinton's Life in Stories and Photographs
April 2007Jacksonville Jazz Festival, Jacksonville, FLA Jazz Odyssey: a Retrospective of Photographs by Milt Hinton
Nov. 10, 2006 - Jan. 29, 2007STAX Museum of American Soul Music, Memphis, TNMilt Hinton: All That Jazz - A Behind the Scenes View of Jazz in the 20th Century
July 10 - Sept. 6, 2006National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cincinnati, OHKeeping Time: Milt Hinton's Jazz Photographs
April 2005Bern Jazz Festival, Bern, Switzerland
Feb. 2005Dickinson College, Carlisle, PAThrough the Viewfinder: Milt Hinton's World of Jazz
Jan. 27 - April 10, 2005Hamilton College, Clinton, NYThe Music Stand: Jazz as a Unifying Social Force
Oct. - Nov. 2004Salzburg Festival, Salzburg, Austria
Sept. 2004Bloomfield College, Bloomfield, NJFrom the Out House to the White House: The Jazz Photographs of Milt Hinton
May 15 - June 11, 2004WBGO Gallery, Newark, NJThe Photographs of Milt Hinton
May 2003Banning Gallery, Banning, CAKeeping Time: The Jazz Photographs of Milt Hinton
Dec. 2001Hofstra University, Hempstead, NYMilt Hinton: Photographs of Jazz Artists
May - Sept. 2001Fullerton Museum Center, Fullerton, CABebop & Hi-Fi: Photographing Jazz
July 2001The North Seas Jazz Festival, The Hague, The Netherlands
Nov. 5 - Dec. 11, 2001Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College of the City University of New YorkMilt Hinton: A Memorial Exhibition of his Jazz Photographs 1938-1986
Sept. - Nov. 1998Flushing Town Hall, Flushing, NYMilton Hinton: A Tribute
Feb. 6 - March 4, 1997Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College of the City University of New YorkJazz Odyssey: A Retrospective of Photographs by Milt Hinton
June - July 1997The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.Keeping Time: Photographs of Musicians by John Cohen and Milt Hinton
April - July 1997The Smithsonian Institution, Anacostia Center, Washington, D.C.Life on the Road: The Photographs of Milton J. Hinton
Feb. 1 - April 7, 1997New York State Museum, Albany, NYJazz Shots: The Photographs of Milt Hinton
May - June 1996Providence St. Mel School, Chicago, IL
Jan. 13 - March 31, 1996Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MAFirsthand in the Jazz World: Photographs of American Musicians by Milton Hinton
Sept. 13 - Oct. 20, 1996Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NVThe Jazz Photographs of Milt Hinton
July 1996Musikhauset Aarhus, CopenhagenPhotographs by Milt Hinton
March 1996Walt Whitman Arts & Cultural Center, Camden, NJThe Jazz Photographs of Milt Hinton
Feb. 1996Ben Shahn Gallery, William Paterson College, Wayne, NJThe Photographs of Milt Hinton
Feb. 1996Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, MAThe Milton J. Hinton Photographic Collection
May 13 - July 2, 1995Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, CanadaMilt Hinton - Jazz Photographs
March -April 1995Michigan State University, Lansing, MIPhotographs by Milt Hinton
Sept. 1994Monterey Jazz Festival, Monterey, CA
Jan. - Feb. 1994University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VAJazz Photographs by Milt Hinton
Sept.- Oct. 1993Beach Institute African American Cultural Center, Savannah, GAAn Insider's Perspective
Feb. - March 1993The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MAThe Photographs of Milt Hinton
Feb. 12 - March 9, 1992Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College of the City University of New York, NYJazz Odyssey: Photographs by Milt Hinton 1930-1980
July 6 - Oct. 13, 1991Denver Museum of Art, Denver, COBass Line: The Photographs of Milt Hinton
Sept. 27 - Nov. 8, 1991Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, Clinton, NYPortraits in Jazz: Photographs by Milt Hinton
Jan. - Feb. 1991Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RIMilt Hinton: Photographs
1991-1999Le FNAC, Paris, FranceMilt Hinton, Legende du Jazz
March 21 - April 4, 1991Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
Jan. 8 - July 12, 1991Detroit Historical Museum, Detroit, MIThe Life and Photographs of Milt Hinton, Jazz Musician
Sept. 11 - Oct. 21, 1990The Art Gallery, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NHA View from the Bass Line: Jazz Photographs By Milt Hinton
Jan. - March 1990Aetna Life and Casualty Company, Hartford, CTThe Life and Photographs of Milt Hinton, Jazz Musician
April 15 - May 28, 1988Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, FLMilt Hinton: Five Decades of Jazz Photographs
March 4 - April 4, 1988Newark City Hall, Newark, NJMilt Hinton's Jazz Legends
Jan. 31 - March 25, 1988CRT's Craftery Gallery, Hartford, CTAll That Jazz
July 1986Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh, ScotlandOn the Road
July 1986The 92nd Street YMHA, New York, NYOn the Road
June - July 1986Mellon Bank Center, Philadelphia, PAA Jazz Master Documents Fifty Years of American Music
Dec. 17, 1985 - Jan. 14, 1986Gallery, Parsons School of Design, New York, NYOn the Road: 50 Years of Jazz Photographs By Milt Hinton
March - April 1985Sordoni Art Gallery, Wilkes College,Wilkes-Barre, PA
Jan. 29 - Feb. 24, 1985Midwest Museum of American Art, Elkhart, INImages of Jazz
June 1981Cava Gallery, Philadelphia, PAMilt Hinton's Photographs