Dr. John

piano, vocal, keyboard, performer, arranger, organ, guitar, electric piano, grand piano, congas, producer

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Top collaborators

Artist name Roles Recordings
Mac Rebennack (aka Dr. John) instrument arranger, producer, vocal, horn, organ, percussion, piano Big Mac, Bruha Bembe, Cold Cold Cold, Creole Moon, Dance a La Negres, Delicado, Dorothy, Georgianna, Holdin' Pattern, Honey Dripper, I Been Hoodood, Imitation of Love, In Lure of the Tropics, In the Name of You, Just the Same, Life, Mac’s Boogie, Memories of Professor Longhair, Monkey & Baboon, New Island Midnight, Now That You Got Me, Peace Brother Peace, Pinetop, Qualified, Queen of Cold, Right Place Wrong Time, Saints, Same Old Same Old, Shoo Fly Marches On, Silent Night, Such a Night, Take What I Can Get, The Nearness of You, Traveling Mood, Wade in the Water, Where Ya Mule At, You Swore
Allen Toussaint arranger, conductor, mix, producer, vocal, vocal arranger, acoustic guitar, congas, electric piano, piano, tambourine (Everybody Wanna Get Rich) Rite Away, Can't Git Enuff, Cold Cold Cold, Desitively Bonnaroo, Go Tell the People, I Been Hoodood, Just the Same, Let's Make a Better World, Life, Me − You = Loneliness, Mos' Scocious, Peace Brother Peace, Qualified, Quitters Never Win, R U 4 Real, Right Place Wrong Time, Same Old Same Old, Shoo Fly Marches On, Sing Along Song, Stealin', Such a Night, Traveling Mood, What Comes Around (Goes Around)
Robbie Montgomery vocal Big Chief, Blow Wind Blow, Cold Cold Cold, Huey Smith Medley: High Blood Pressure / Don’t You Just Know It / Well I’ll Be John Brown, I Been Hoodood, Iko Iko, Junko Partner, Just the Same, Let the Good Times Roll, Life, Little Liza Jane, Mess Around, Peace Brother Peace, Qualified, Right Place Wrong Time, Same Old Same Old, Shoo Fly Marches On, Somebody Changed the Lock, Stack‐A‐Lee, Such a Night, Those Lonely Lonely Nights, Tipitina, Traveling Mood
Karl Richardson engineer, recording (Everybody Wanna Get Rich) Rite Away, Can't Git Enuff, Cold Cold Cold, Desitively Bonnaroo, Go Tell the People, I Been Hoodood, Just the Same, Let's Make a Better World, Life, Me − You = Loneliness, Mos' Scocious, Peace Brother Peace, Qualified, Quitters Never Win, R U 4 Real, Right Place Wrong Time, Same Old Same Old, Shoo Fly Marches On, Sing Along Song, Stealin', Such a Night, Traveling Mood, What Comes Around (Goes Around)
Herman V. Ernest III vocal, drums, percussion Bruha Bembe, Creole Moon, Don't Leave Me This Way, Food for Thot, Georgianna, Holdin' Pattern, Imitation of Love, In the Name of You, Litenin', Monkey & Baboon, My Indian Red, Now That You Got Me, One 2 A.M. Too Many, Queen of Cold, Take What I Can Get, You Swore

Collaborators on this artist's recordings

Artist name Roles Recordings
Mac Rebennack (aka Dr. John) instrument arranger, producer, vocal, horn, organ, percussion, piano Big Mac, Bruha Bembe, Cold Cold Cold, Creole Moon, Dance a La Negres, Delicado, Dorothy, Georgianna, Holdin' Pattern, Honey Dripper, I Been Hoodood, Imitation of Love, In Lure of the Tropics, In the Name of You, Just the Same, Life, Mac’s Boogie, Memories of Professor Longhair, Monkey & Baboon, New Island Midnight, Now That You Got Me, Peace Brother Peace, Pinetop, Qualified, Queen of Cold, Right Place Wrong Time, Saints, Same Old Same Old, Shoo Fly Marches On, Silent Night, Such a Night, Take What I Can Get, The Nearness of You, Traveling Mood, Wade in the Water, Where Ya Mule At, You Swore
Allen Toussaint arranger, conductor, mix, producer, vocal, vocal arranger, acoustic guitar, congas, electric piano, piano, tambourine (Everybody Wanna Get Rich) Rite Away, Can't Git Enuff, Cold Cold Cold, Desitively Bonnaroo, Go Tell the People, I Been Hoodood, Just the Same, Let's Make a Better World, Life, Me − You = Loneliness, Mos' Scocious, Peace Brother Peace, Qualified, Quitters Never Win, R U 4 Real, Right Place Wrong Time, Same Old Same Old, Shoo Fly Marches On, Sing Along Song, Stealin', Such a Night, Traveling Mood, What Comes Around (Goes Around)
Robbie Montgomery vocal Big Chief, Blow Wind Blow, Cold Cold Cold, Huey Smith Medley: High Blood Pressure / Don’t You Just Know It / Well I’ll Be John Brown, I Been Hoodood, Iko Iko, Junko Partner, Just the Same, Let the Good Times Roll, Life, Little Liza Jane, Mess Around, Peace Brother Peace, Qualified, Right Place Wrong Time, Same Old Same Old, Shoo Fly Marches On, Somebody Changed the Lock, Stack‐A‐Lee, Such a Night, Those Lonely Lonely Nights, Tipitina, Traveling Mood
Karl Richardson engineer, recording (Everybody Wanna Get Rich) Rite Away, Can't Git Enuff, Cold Cold Cold, Desitively Bonnaroo, Go Tell the People, I Been Hoodood, Just the Same, Let's Make a Better World, Life, Me − You = Loneliness, Mos' Scocious, Peace Brother Peace, Qualified, Quitters Never Win, R U 4 Real, Right Place Wrong Time, Same Old Same Old, Shoo Fly Marches On, Sing Along Song, Stealin', Such a Night, Traveling Mood, What Comes Around (Goes Around)
Herman V. Ernest III vocal, drums, percussion Bruha Bembe, Creole Moon, Don't Leave Me This Way, Food for Thot, Georgianna, Holdin' Pattern, Imitation of Love, In the Name of You, Litenin', Monkey & Baboon, My Indian Red, Now That You Got Me, One 2 A.M. Too Many, Queen of Cold, Take What I Can Get, You Swore
David Barard vocal, bass Bruha Bembe, Creole Moon, Don't Leave Me This Way, Food for Thot, Georgianna, Holdin' Pattern, Imitation of Love, In the Name of You, Litenin', Monkey & Baboon, My Indian Red, Now That You Got Me, One 2 A.M. Too Many, Queen of Cold, Take What I Can Get, You Swore
Alonzo Bowens baritone saxophone, tenor saxophone Bruha Bembe, Creole Moon, Food for Thot, Georgianna, Holdin' Pattern, Imitation of Love, In the Name of You, Litenin', Monkey & Baboon, My Indian Red, Now That You Got Me, One 2 A.M. Too Many, Queen of Cold, Take What I Can Get, You Swore
Theodore Arthur, Jr. alto saxophone Bruha Bembe, Creole Moon, Food for Thot, Georgianna, Holdin' Pattern, Imitation of Love, In the Name of You, Litenin', Monkey & Baboon, Now That You Got Me, One 2 A.M. Too Many, Queen of Cold, Take What I Can Get, You Swore
Renard Poché vocal, guitar Bruha Bembe, Creole Moon, Food for Thot, Georgianna, Holdin' Pattern, Imitation of Love, In the Name of You, Litenin', Monkey & Baboon, Now That You Got Me, One 2 A.M. Too Many, Queen of Cold, Take What I Can Get, You Swore
Curtis Pierre percussion Bruha Bembe, Creole Moon, Food for Thot, Georgianna, Holdin' Pattern, Imitation of Love, In the Name of You, Litenin', Monkey & Baboon, Now That You Got Me, One 2 A.M. Too Many, Queen of Cold, Take What I Can Get, You Swore
Michael Skinkus percussion Bruha Bembe, Creole Moon, Food for Thot, Georgianna, Holdin' Pattern, Imitation of Love, In the Name of You, Litenin', Monkey & Baboon, Now That You Got Me, One 2 A.M. Too Many, Queen of Cold, Take What I Can Get, You Swore
Fred Wesley instrument arranger, horn, trombone Bruha Bembe, Creole Moon, Food for Thot, Georgianna, Holdin' Pattern, Imitation of Love, In the Name of You, Litenin', Monkey & Baboon, Now That You Got Me, One 2 A.M. Too Many, Queen of Cold, Take What I Can Get, You Swore
Eric Traub instrument arranger, horn, tenor saxophone Bruha Bembe, Creole Moon, Food for Thot, Georgianna, Holdin' Pattern, Imitation of Love, In the Name of You, Litenin', Monkey & Baboon, Now That You Got Me, One 2 A.M. Too Many, Queen of Cold, Take What I Can Get, You Swore
Charley Miller (trumpeter) instrument arranger, flute, horn, trumpet Bruha Bembe, Creole Moon, Food for Thot, Georgianna, Holdin' Pattern, Imitation of Love, In the Name of You, Litenin', Monkey & Baboon, Now That You Got Me, One 2 A.M. Too Many, Queen of Cold, Take What I Can Get, You Swore
Dean Roumanis recording Big Mac, Dance a La Negres, Delicado, Dorothy, Honey Dripper, Mac’s Boogie, Memories of Professor Longhair, New Island Midnight, Pinetop, Saints, Silent Night, The Nearness of You, Wade in the Water
Alvin Robinson vocal, guitar Big Chief, Blow Wind Blow, Huey Smith Medley: High Blood Pressure / Don’t You Just Know It / Well I’ll Be John Brown, Iko Iko, Junko Partner, Let the Good Times Roll, Little Liza Jane, Mess Around, Somebody Changed the Lock, Stack‐A‐Lee, Those Lonely Lonely Nights, Tipitina
Leo Nocentelli guitar Cold Cold Cold, I Been Hoodood, Just the Same, Life, Peace Brother Peace, Qualified, Right Place Wrong Time, Same Old Same Old, Shoo Fly Marches On, Such a Night, Traveling Mood, Walking To New Orleans
Lee Allen (US jazz tenor saxophonist) saxophone Big Chief, Blow Wind Blow, Huey Smith Medley: High Blood Pressure / Don’t You Just Know It / Well I’ll Be John Brown, Iko Iko, Junko Partner, Let the Good Times Roll, Little Liza Jane, Mess Around, Somebody Changed the Lock, Stack‐A‐Lee, Those Lonely Lonely Nights, Tipitina
Ken Klimak guitar Big Chief, Blow Wind Blow, Huey Smith Medley: High Blood Pressure / Don’t You Just Know It / Well I’ll Be John Brown, Iko Iko, Junko Partner, Let the Good Times Roll, Little Liza Jane, Mess Around, Somebody Changed the Lock, Stack‐A‐Lee, Those Lonely Lonely Nights, Tipitina
Richard "Didimus" Washington percussion Big Chief, Blow Wind Blow, Huey Smith Medley: High Blood Pressure / Don’t You Just Know It / Well I’ll Be John Brown, Iko Iko, Junko Partner, Let the Good Times Roll, Little Liza Jane, Mess Around, Somebody Changed the Lock, Stack‐A‐Lee, Those Lonely Lonely Nights, Tipitina
Tami Lynn vocal Big Chief, Blow Wind Blow, Huey Smith Medley: High Blood Pressure / Don’t You Just Know It / Well I’ll Be John Brown, Iko Iko, Junko Partner, Let the Good Times Roll, Little Liza Jane, Mess Around, Somebody Changed the Lock, Stack‐A‐Lee, Those Lonely Lonely Nights, Tipitina
Moe Bechamin vocal, saxophone Big Chief, Blow Wind Blow, Huey Smith Medley: High Blood Pressure / Don’t You Just Know It / Well I’ll Be John Brown, Iko Iko, Junko Partner, Let the Good Times Roll, Little Liza Jane, Mess Around, Somebody Changed the Lock, Stack‐A‐Lee, Those Lonely Lonely Nights, Tipitina
Sidney George harmonica, saxophone Big Chief, Blow Wind Blow, Huey Smith Medley: High Blood Pressure / Don’t You Just Know It / Well I’ll Be John Brown, Iko Iko, Junko Partner, Let the Good Times Roll, Little Liza Jane, Mess Around, Somebody Changed the Lock, Stack‐A‐Lee, Those Lonely Lonely Nights, Tipitina
David Lastie saxophone Big Chief, Blow Wind Blow, Huey Smith Medley: High Blood Pressure / Don’t You Just Know It / Well I’ll Be John Brown, Iko Iko, Junko Partner, Let the Good Times Roll, Little Liza Jane, Mess Around, Somebody Changed the Lock, Stack‐A‐Lee, Those Lonely Lonely Nights, Tipitina
Jimmy Calhoun bass guitar Big Chief, Blow Wind Blow, Huey Smith Medley: High Blood Pressure / Don’t You Just Know It / Well I’ll Be John Brown, Iko Iko, Junko Partner, Let the Good Times Roll, Little Liza Jane, Mess Around, Somebody Changed the Lock, Stack‐A‐Lee, Those Lonely Lonely Nights, Tipitina
Melvin Lastie cornet Big Chief, Blow Wind Blow, Huey Smith Medley: High Blood Pressure / Don’t You Just Know It / Well I’ll Be John Brown, Iko Iko, Junko Partner, Let the Good Times Roll, Little Liza Jane, Mess Around, Somebody Changed the Lock, Stack‐A‐Lee, Those Lonely Lonely Nights, Tipitina
Shirley Goodman vocal Big Chief, Blow Wind Blow, Huey Smith Medley: High Blood Pressure / Don’t You Just Know It / Well I’ll Be John Brown, Iko Iko, Junko Partner, Let the Good Times Roll, Little Liza Jane, Mess Around, Somebody Changed the Lock, Stack‐A‐Lee, Those Lonely Lonely Nights, Tipitina
Ronnie Barron vocal, electric piano, organ, piano Big Chief, Blow Wind Blow, Huey Smith Medley: High Blood Pressure / Don’t You Just Know It / Well I’ll Be John Brown, Iko Iko, Junko Partner, Let the Good Times Roll, Little Liza Jane, Mess Around, Somebody Changed the Lock, Stack‐A‐Lee, Those Lonely Lonely Nights, Tipitina
Freddie Staehle drums Big Chief, Blow Wind Blow, Huey Smith Medley: High Blood Pressure / Don’t You Just Know It / Well I’ll Be John Brown, Iko Iko, Junko Partner, Let the Good Times Roll, Little Liza Jane, Mess Around, Somebody Changed the Lock, Stack‐A‐Lee, Those Lonely Lonely Nights, Tipitina
Jesse Smith (Background vocal for Dr. John) vocal Big Chief, Blow Wind Blow, Huey Smith Medley: High Blood Pressure / Don’t You Just Know It / Well I’ll Be John Brown, Iko Iko, Junko Partner, Let the Good Times Roll, Little Liza Jane, Mess Around, Somebody Changed the Lock, Stack‐A‐Lee, Those Lonely Lonely Nights, Tipitina
George Porter, Jr. bass, bass guitar Cold Cold Cold, I Been Hoodood, Just the Same, Life, Peace Brother Peace, Qualified, Right Place Wrong Time, Same Old Same Old, Shoo Fly Marches On, Such a Night, Traveling Mood, Walking To New Orleans
Harold Battiste clarinet, saxophone Big Chief, Blow Wind Blow, Huey Smith Medley: High Blood Pressure / Don’t You Just Know It / Well I’ll Be John Brown, Iko Iko, Junko Partner, Let the Good Times Roll, Little Liza Jane, Mess Around, Somebody Changed the Lock, Stack‐A‐Lee, Those Lonely Lonely Nights, Tipitina
Gary Brown (saxophone) saxophone Cold Cold Cold, I Been Hoodood, Just the Same, Life, Peace Brother Peace, Qualified, Right Place Wrong Time, Same Old Same Old, Shoo Fly Marches On, Such a Night, Traveling Mood
The Meters performer Cold Cold Cold, I Been Hoodood, Just the Same, Life, Peace Brother Peace, Qualified, Right Place Wrong Time, Same Old Same Old, Shoo Fly Marches On, Such a Night, Traveling Mood
The Bonaroo horn section performer Cold Cold Cold, I Been Hoodood, Just the Same, Life, Peace Brother Peace, Qualified, Right Place Wrong Time, Same Old Same Old, Shoo Fly Marches On, Such a Night, Traveling Mood
Jessie Mae Smith vocal Cold Cold Cold, I Been Hoodood, Just the Same, Life, Peace Brother Peace, Qualified, Right Place Wrong Time, Same Old Same Old, Shoo Fly Marches On, Such a Night, Traveling Mood
Joseph Modeliste (Ziggy Modeliste) drums Cold Cold Cold, I Been Hoodood, Just the Same, Life, Peace Brother Peace, Qualified, Right Place Wrong Time, Same Old Same Old, Shoo Fly Marches On, Such a Night, Traveling Mood
Art Neville organ Cold Cold Cold, I Been Hoodood, Just the Same, Life, Peace Brother Peace, Qualified, Right Place Wrong Time, Same Old Same Old, Shoo Fly Marches On, Such a Night, Traveling Mood
Jimmy Douglass mix Cold Cold Cold, I Been Hoodood, Just the Same, Life, Peace Brother Peace, Qualified, Right Place Wrong Time, Same Old Same Old, Shoo Fly Marches On, Such a Night
Arif Mardin mix Cold Cold Cold, I Been Hoodood, Just the Same, Life, Peace Brother Peace, Qualified, Right Place Wrong Time, Same Old Same Old, Shoo Fly Marches On, Such a Night
Ralph MacDonald percussion I Been Hoodood, Shoo Fly Marches On, Such a Night
Catherine Russell vocal Bruha Bembe, Litenin', You Swore
Nicki Richards vocal Bruha Bembe, Litenin', You Swore
Sonny Landreth slide guitar Georgianna, Monkey & Baboon, Take What I Can Get
David “Fathead” Newman saxophone Creole Moon, One 2 A.M. Too Many, You Swore
Raymond Weber drums In Lure of the Tropics, Walking To New Orleans
Michael Doucet fiddle Georgianna, Holdin' Pattern
John Fohl guitar Don't Leave Me This Way, My Indian Red
Cold Grits performer Loop Garoo, Wash Mama Wash
Chris Allen (recording engineer) engineer Don't Leave Me This Way
Chris Finney engineer, mix Don't Leave Me This Way
Chris George (engineer) recording My Indian Red
Daniel Majorie recording My Indian Red
David Spinozza guitar Right Place Wrong Time
Doug Wieselman woodwind In Lure of the Tropics
Grayson Taylor (engineer) mix Don't Leave Me This Way
Hal Willner instrument arranger In Lure of the Tropics
Irma Thomas vocal Don't Leave Me This Way
Ivan Neville Hammond organ Walking To New Orleans
Jim Hoke arranger Let This Be a Lesson to Ya
John Ewing (jazz trombonist - do not confuse with John Ewing, Jr.) trombone Somebody Changed the Lock
John Leckie producer I Don't Wanna Know
Ken Williams vocal, tambourine My Indian Red
Kevin Louis trumpet Queen of Cold
Marcia Ball vocal Don't Leave Me This Way
Mark Bingham engineer In Lure of the Tropics
Ronnie Cuber baritone saxophone Don't Leave Me This Way
Bernard Floyd trumpet My Indian Red
Blake Leyh mix, producer My Indian Red
Bob Clearmountain mix Let This Be a Lesson to Ya
The New Orleans Social Club arranger Walking To New Orleans
Charles Greene (producer) producer Where Ya Mule At
Tony Blanc audio Let This Be a Lesson to Ya
Tony Daigle triangle Georgianna
Trombone Shorty trombone My Indian Red

Work on other artists' recordings

Artist name Roles Recordings
Bennie Wallace piano Border Town, Dance With a Dolly, East 9, Seven Sisters, Skanctified, Stormy Weather
Maria Muldaur piano Adam and Eve Had the Blues, Blues for Hoagy (Laid Back Blues), Brother, Seek and Ye Shall Find, Cooking Breakfast for the One I Love, Sweet and Slow, There's Going to Be the Devil to Pay
James Cotton piano Cotton in the Kitchen, Hungry Country Girl, Living the Blues, Mississippi Saxophone, One Little Piece of Shade
Solex performer, vocal, piano Big Chief, Everything I Do Gon’ Be Funky, It’s All Over Now
Michael Griffiths piano A Man of Many Words, Messin' With the Kid, T‐Bone Shuffle
Papa John Creach organ, piano All the World Loves a Winner, Southern Strut
Nicholas Payton vocal Blues in the Night, Mack the Knife
Taj Mahal piano Cakewalk Into Town, Ev'ry Wind (In the River)
Jimmy Smith vocal, piano Mr. Johnson, Only in It for the Money
Peter Green Splinter Group piano From Four Until Late, They’re Red Hot
Jack Bruce organ, piano This Anger's a Liar, Windowless Rooms
The Lost Shores performer Black Night, Fool's Paradise
Janardhan Mitta piano Blue Monday
9 Volt Junkie piano Christmas Blues
Aquilla organ Le Réveil de la Louisiane
Leonard Ian Dalsemer piano Something You Got
Long Ashton Pantomime vocal, guitar, piano I’ve Got the World on a String
Marcus Miller vocal Tightrope
Aural Elixir vocal, piano Dr John Gris - Gris John
Martin Dreher piano Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen
Mexican Stepper electric piano, piano Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
Barong piano Ma Nouvelle-Orléans
Mouth Breather vocal Perfect Day ’97 (male version)
813 piano High Blood Pressure
Beth Orton piano Sweetest Decline
Patrick Payne performer There Must Be a Better World Somewhere
Carly Simon organ, piano Mockingbird
Raymond Lafferty piano Kulumbu
Robert Thuillier arranger, vocal, piano That’s My Home
Roland Stone performer I Was a Fool (feat. Dr. John)
Ronin Cha arranger, vocal, piano Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams
Sid Gribetz vocal, piano Mack the Knife
Djiman vocal, piano Tight Like This
H. Bloemendaal arranger, vocal, piano What a Wonderful World
The Band vocal I Shall Be Released
The Dirty Dozen Brass Band vocal, piano It's All Over Now
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion guitar Hold On
Hank Crawford piano O Holy Night
The Max Weinberg 7 performer Catch ’em in the Act (feat. Dr. John)
The Simpsons piano I Love to See You Smile
Water and Sand arranger, vocal, piano Gut Bucket Blues
pentatonic performer The Hand That Changed It's Mind
Леонид Витальевич Собинов vocal Season of the Witch
Хор Ленинградского радио и телевидения vocal, guitar Down South in New Orleans
いか消し vocal Iko Iko
すぃ vocal, piano Memories of You
Harry Connick, Jr. vocal, organ Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans
Hugh Laurie vocal After You’ve Gone
Isabeella Beumer congas Coyote
Accademia Arcadia arranger, vocal, electric piano, piano Sweet Hunk O’Trash
Jacqueline Ogeil arranger, vocal, piano When You’re Smiling (the Whole World Smiles With You)
Achim Christian Bornhöft performer, vocal, piano Such a Night