Earl May

bass, double bass

Top collaborators

Artist name Roles Recordings
Billy Taylor Trio
Herbie Mann
Chet Baker
Stanley Turrentine
Dizzy Gillespie

Work on other artists' recordings

Artist name Roles Recordings
Billy Taylor Trio bass, double bass Accent on Youth, All Too Soon, B.T.'s D.T.'s, Bird Watcher, Cool and Caressing, Get Me To The Church On Time, Get Me to the Church on Time, Give Me the Simple Life, Hey Lock, I Could Have Danced All Night, I've Got the World on a String, I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face, I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face, Let's Get Away from It All, Little Girl Blue, Lover, Man With a Horn, My One and Only Love, Nice Work if You Can Get It, On The Street Where You Live, On the Street Where You Live, Rain In Spain, Show Me, Tenderly, That's All, The Little Things That Mean So Much, The Rain in Spain, The Surrey With the Fringe on Top, They Can't Take That Away from Me, Who Can I Turn Too?, With A Little Bit Of Luck, With a Little Bit of Luck, Wouldn't It Be Lovely?, Wouldn't It Be Loverly?
Herbie Mann bass A Wonderful Day Like Today, Feeling Good, Hold on, I'm Comin', It Isn't Enough, Look at That Face, Love Is Far Stronger Than We, My First Love Song, Sweet Beginning, The Beautiful Land, The Joker, The Letter, This Dream, Where Would You Be Without Me?, Who Can I Turn To
Chet Baker bass Almost Like Being in Love, I Could Have Danced All Night, I Talk to the Trees, I've Grown Accoustomed to Her Face, I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face, On the Street Where You Live, Show Me, Thank Heaven for Little Girls, Thanks Heaven for Little Girls, The Heather On The Hill, The Heather on the Hill
Stanley Turrentine bass Blues in Hoss' Flat, Cherry Point, Cherry Point (First version), Cherry Point (first version), Midnight Blue, One O'Clock Jump, One O'Clock Jump (First version), One O'Clock Jump (first version), Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most
Dizzy Gillespie bass Barcelona, Behind the Moonbeam, Carnival, In the Land of the Living Dead, Olinga, Pele, Samba, The Truth
Junior Mance bass C.C. Rider, Harlem Lullabye, How Insensitive, Nadja, Reverend J., Some Other Blues, This Can't Be Love, You Don't Know What Love Is
Lou Donaldson bass Cole Slaw, Li'l Miss Fine, O sole mio, People Will Say We're in Love, Poinciana, Skylark, Soul Gumbo, There Is No Greater Love
Archie Shepp bass Caravan, Day Dream, Don't You Know I Care, I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good, Prelude to a Kiss, Satin Doll
Charlie Rouse Quintet bass "204", Blue Farouq, Pretty Strange, They Didn't Believe Me, Upptankt, Wierdo
Marlena Shaw bass Handy Man, I'm Alone Again, My Old Flame, Once Again We've Begun to Love, Where Do You Start?, Why, Oh Why
Luka Belani double bass Almost Like Being in Love, I Could Have Danced All Night, I Talk to the Trees, Show Me, Thank Heaven for Little Girls
Shirley Scott bass Blues for Members, I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face, Marchin' to Riverside, We're Goin' Home
John Coltrane bass, double bass I Love You, Like Someone in Love, Slowtrane, Trane’s Slo Blues