Paul Motian

drums, percussion, cymbals, drumset, congas

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Top collaborators

Artist name Roles Recordings
Keith Jarrett flute, piano American Indian: Song of Sitting Bull, Conception Vessel
Bill Evans Trio
Bill Evans (pianist)
Joe Lovano tenor saxophone 34 Skidoo, All the Things You Are, Bess, Oh Where Is My Bess, Body and Soul, But Not for Me, Cathedral Song, Children's Play Song, Drum Music, Five, Good Morning Heartache, Hide and Go Seek, I Concentrate on You, I Got Rhythm, It Might as Well Be Spring, Jack of Clubs, Lament, Last Night When We Were Young, Liza, Look to the Rainbow, Moonlight Becomes You, My Heart Belongs to Daddy, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Re:Person I Knew, Show-Type Tune, So in Love, Someone to Watch Over Me, Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Split Decision, Tanner Street, They Didn’t Believe Me, Time Remembered, Turn Out the Stars, Very Early, Walkin' Up, What Is This Thing Called Love, You and the Night and the Music
Charlie Haden bass, double bass All the Things You Are, Bess, Oh Where Is My Bess, Body and Soul, But Not for Me, Georgian Bay, Good Morning Heartache, I Concentrate on You, I Got Rhythm, Inspiration From a Vietnamese Lullaby, It Might as Well Be Spring, Last Night When We Were Young, Liza, Look to the Rainbow, Moonlight Becomes You, My Heart Belongs to Daddy, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Rebica, So in Love, Someone to Watch Over Me, Somewhere Over the Rainbow, They Didn’t Believe Me, What Is This Thing Called Love, You and the Night and the Music

Collaborators on this artist's recordings

Artist name Roles Recordings
Keith Jarrett flute, piano American Indian: Song of Sitting Bull, Conception Vessel
Joe Lovano tenor saxophone 34 Skidoo, All the Things You Are, Bess, Oh Where Is My Bess, Body and Soul, But Not for Me, Cathedral Song, Children's Play Song, Drum Music, Five, Good Morning Heartache, Hide and Go Seek, I Concentrate on You, I Got Rhythm, It Might as Well Be Spring, Jack of Clubs, Lament, Last Night When We Were Young, Liza, Look to the Rainbow, Moonlight Becomes You, My Heart Belongs to Daddy, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Re:Person I Knew, Show-Type Tune, So in Love, Someone to Watch Over Me, Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Split Decision, Tanner Street, They Didn’t Believe Me, Time Remembered, Turn Out the Stars, Very Early, Walkin' Up, What Is This Thing Called Love, You and the Night and the Music
Charlie Haden bass, double bass All the Things You Are, Bess, Oh Where Is My Bess, Body and Soul, But Not for Me, Georgian Bay, Good Morning Heartache, I Concentrate on You, I Got Rhythm, Inspiration From a Vietnamese Lullaby, It Might as Well Be Spring, Last Night When We Were Young, Liza, Look to the Rainbow, Moonlight Becomes You, My Heart Belongs to Daddy, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Rebica, So in Love, Someone to Watch Over Me, Somewhere Over the Rainbow, They Didn’t Believe Me, What Is This Thing Called Love, You and the Night and the Music
Bill Frisell electric guitar, guitar 34 Skidoo, All the Things You Are, Bess, Oh Where Is My Bess, Body and Soul, But Not for Me, Cathedral Song, Children's Play Song, Drum Music, Five, Good Morning Heartache, Hide and Go Seek, I Concentrate on You, I Got Rhythm, It Might as Well Be Spring, Jack of Clubs, Lament, Last Night When We Were Young, Liza, Look to the Rainbow, Moonlight Becomes You, My Heart Belongs to Daddy, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Re:Person I Knew, Show-Type Tune, So in Love, Someone to Watch Over Me, Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Split Decision, Tanner Street, They Didn’t Believe Me, Time Remembered, Turn Out the Stars, Very Early, Walkin' Up, What Is This Thing Called Love, You and the Night and the Music
Joe Ferla mix, recording 34 Skidoo, All the Things You Are, Bess, Oh Where Is My Bess, Body and Soul, But Not for Me, Children's Play Song, Five, Good Morning Heartache, I Concentrate on You, I Got Rhythm, It Might as Well Be Spring, Last Night When We Were Young, Liza, Look to the Rainbow, Moonlight Becomes You, My Heart Belongs to Daddy, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Re:Person I Knew, Show-Type Tune, So in Love, Someone to Watch Over Me, Somewhere Over the Rainbow, They Didn’t Believe Me, Time Remembered, Turn Out the Stars, Very Early, Walkin' Up, What Is This Thing Called Love, You and the Night and the Music
Stefan F. Winter producer 34 Skidoo, All the Things You Are, Bess, Oh Where Is My Bess, Body and Soul, But Not for Me, Children's Play Song, Five, Good Morning Heartache, I Concentrate on You, I Got Rhythm, It Might as Well Be Spring, Last Night When We Were Young, Liza, Look to the Rainbow, Moonlight Becomes You, My Heart Belongs to Daddy, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Re:Person I Knew, Show-Type Tune, So in Love, Someone to Watch Over Me, Somewhere Over the Rainbow, They Didn’t Believe Me, Time Remembered, Turn Out the Stars, Very Early, Walkin' Up, What Is This Thing Called Love, You and the Night and the Music
Jeff Lippay recording All the Things You Are, Bess, Oh Where Is My Bess, Body and Soul, But Not for Me, Good Morning Heartache, I Concentrate on You, I Got Rhythm, It Might as Well Be Spring, Last Night When We Were Young, Liza, Look to the Rainbow, Moonlight Becomes You, My Heart Belongs to Daddy, Nice Work If You Can Get It, So in Love, Someone to Watch Over Me, Somewhere Over the Rainbow, They Didn’t Believe Me, What Is This Thing Called Love, You and the Night and the Music
Michael Fossenkemper mix All the Things You Are, Bess, Oh Where Is My Bess, Body and Soul, But Not for Me, Good Morning Heartache, I Got Rhythm, It Might as Well Be Spring, Look to the Rainbow, Moonlight Becomes You, Nice Work If You Can Get It, You and the Night and the Music
五野洋 producer 34 Skidoo, Children's Play Song, Five, Re:Person I Knew, Show-Type Tune, Time Remembered, Turn Out the Stars, Very Early, Walkin' Up
John Herman mix I Concentrate on You, Last Night When We Were Young, Liza, My Heart Belongs to Daddy, So in Love, Someone to Watch Over Me, Somewhere Over the Rainbow, They Didn’t Believe Me, What Is This Thing Called Love
Marc Johnson (US jazz bassist, composer & band leader) acoustic bass guitar 34 Skidoo, Children's Play Song, Five, Re:Person I Knew, Show-Type Tune, Time Remembered, Turn Out the Stars, Very Early, Walkin' Up
Ed Schuller bass Cathedral Song, Drum Music, Hide and Go Seek, Jack of Clubs, Lament, Split Decision, Tanner Street
Jim Pepper saxophone Cathedral Song, Drum Music, Hide and Go Seek, Jack of Clubs, Lament, Split Decision, Tanner Street
Martin Wieland mix American Indian: Song of Sitting Bull, Ch'i Energy, Conception Vessel, Georgian Bay, Inspiration From a Vietnamese Lullaby, Rebica
Manfred Eicher producer American Indian: Song of Sitting Bull, Ch'i Energy, Conception Vessel, Georgian Bay, Inspiration From a Vietnamese Lullaby, Rebica
George Klabin recording American Indian: Song of Sitting Bull, Ch'i Energy, Conception Vessel, Georgian Bay, Inspiration From a Vietnamese Lullaby, Rebica
Sam Brown (jazz guitarist) guitar Georgian Bay, Rebica
Leroy Jenkins violin Inspiration From a Vietnamese Lullaby
Becky Friend flute Inspiration From a Vietnamese Lullaby

Work on other artists' recordings

Artist name Roles Recordings
Keith Jarrett congas, drums, drumset, percussion (If The) Misfits (Wear It), (If the) Misfits (Wear It), All I Want, Angles (Without Edges), Backhand, Beginning, Birth, Blackberry Winter, Blackberry Winter (take 4), Blackberry Winter (take 9), Blue Streak, Bop-Be, Bop-Be (take 2), Byablue, Byablue (take 1), Byablue (take 2), Church Dreams, Conclusion, De Drums, De Drums (excerpt), Death and the Flower, Diatribe, Diatribe (take 1), Encore (a-b-c), Everything I Love, Everything That Lives Laments, Everything That Lives Laments (take 1a), Everything That Lives Laments (take 6), Everything That Lives, Laments, Eyes of the Heart, Part 1, Eyes of the Heart, Part 2, Fantasm (take 1), Fantasm (take 7), Flame, Flame (take 1), Forget Your Memories (And They'll Remember You), Fort Yawuh, Fullsuvollivus (Fools of All of Us), Gotta Get Some Sleep, Gotta Get Some Sleep (take 2), Gotta Get Some Sleep (take 9), Great Bird, Inflight, Introduction / Yaqui Indian Folk Song, Introduction and Yaqui Indian Folk Song, Konya, Konya (take 1), Kuum, Le Mistral, Life Between the Exit Signs, Lisbon Stomp, Long Time Gone (But Not Withdrawn), Love No. 1, Love No. 2, Margot, Melting the Ice, Mortgage on My Soul (Wah-Wah), Mushi Mushi, Mushi Mushi (take 3), Mysteries, Mysteries (take 1), Playaround (take 1), Pocketful of Cherry, Pocketful of Cherry (take 4), Prayer, Pre-Judgement Atmosphere, Pyramid Moving, Pyramids Moving (take 1), Rainbow, Rainbow (take 3), Rainbow (take 3a / 5a), Remorse, Roads Traveled, Roads Veiled, Roads Travelled, Roads Veiled, Rose Petals, Rose Petals (take 1c), Rose Petals (take 4), Rose Petals (take 4b), Rotation, Rotation (take 1), Shades Of Jazz, Shades of Jazz, Shades of Jazz (take 1a), Shades of Jazz (take 3), Silence, Silence (take 3 / 4), Sister Fortune, Southern Smiles, Southern Smiles (take 2), Southern Smiles (take 4), Spoken Introduction, Standing Outside, Still Life, Still Life, The Rich (and the Poor), Treasure Island, Trieste, Trieste (take 1), Trieste (take 2), Vapallia, Victoria, Whistle Tune, Yahlah (take 2), Yahllah
Bill Evans Trio drums 34 Skidoo, A Few Final Bars..., Alice in Wonderland, Alice in Wonderland (take 1), Alice in Wonderland (take 2), Alice in Wonderland [Alt Tk], All of You, All of You (take 2), All of You (take 3), All of You [Alt Tk #1], All of You [Alt Tk #2], Autumn Leaves, Autumn Leaves (take 1 stereo), Autumn Leaves (take 9, Monaural), Beautiful Love, Beautiful Love (take 1), Beautiful Love (take 2), Blue in Green (take 1), Blue in Green (take 2), Blue in Green (take 3), Come Rain or Come Shine, Come Rain or Come Shine (take 4), Detour Ahead (take 1), Detour Ahead (take 2), Elsa, Ev’rything I Love, Gloria's Step, Gloria's Step (take 2), Gloria's Step (take 3), Gloria's Step [Alt Tk], Haunted Heart, How Deep Is the Ocean, How Deep Is the Ocean?, How My Heart Sings, I Fall in Love Too Easily, I Loves You, Porgy, I Should Care, I Wish I Knew, If You Could See Me Now, In Love in Vain, In Your Own Sweet Way (take 1), In Your Own Sweet Way (take 2), Israel, It Might as Well Be Spring, Jade Visions, Jade Visions (take 1), Jade Visions (take 2), Jade Visions [Alt Tk], Milestones, My Foolish Heart, My Man’s Gone Now, My Romance (take 1), My Romance (take 2), Nardis, Peri’s Scope, Polka Dots and Moonbeams, Re: Person I Knew, Show-Type Tune, Solar, Some Day My Prince Will Come, Some Other Time, Spring Is Here, Stairway to the Stars, Summertime, Sweet & Lovely, Sweet and Lovely, The Boy Next Door, Very Early, Walking Up, Waltz for Debbie, Waltz for Debby (take 1), Waltz for Debby (take 2), What Is This Thing Called Love?, When I Fall in Love, Witchcraft
Bill Evans drums A Sleepin' Bee, Alice in Wonderland (take 1), Alice in Wonderland (take 2), All of You (take 1), All of You (take 2), All of You (take 3), Always, Always (alternate take 1), Always (alternate take 2), Autumn Leaves, Beautiful Love, Blue in Green, Come Rain or Come Shine, Conception, Dancing in the Dark, Detour Ahead (take 1), Detour Ahead (take 2), Displacement, Easy Living, Elsa, Everything Happens to Me, Five, For Heaven's Sake, Gloria's Step (take 1, interrupted), Gloria's Step (take 2), Gloria's Step (take 3), Haunted Heart, How Deep Is the Ocean?, I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good), I Love You, I Loves You, Porgy, I Wish I Knew, I'll See You Again, I'll See You Again (alternate take 1), I'll See You Again (alternate take 2), Israel, Jade Visions (take 1), Jade Visions (take 2), Little Lulu, Little Lulu (alternate take 1), Little Lulu (alternate take 2), Milestones, My Foolish Heart, My Heart Stood Still, My Heart Stood Still (false Start), My Romance, My Romance (take 1), My Romance (take 2), Nardis, No Cover, No Minimum, No Cover, No Minimum (take 1), Our Delight, Peri's Scope, Santa Claus Is Coming to Town, Solar, Some Other Time, Someday My Prince Will Come, Speak Low, Spring Is Here, Sweet and Lovely, The Boy Next Door, Waltz For Debby, Waltz for Debby, Waltz for Debby (take 1), Waltz for Debby (take 2), What Is This Thing Called Love?, When I Fall in Love, Witchcraft, [... a few final bars]
Joe Lovano cymbals, drums A Child Is Born, Alone Together, Autumn in New York, Bird's Eye View, Consummation, Countdown, Crescent, Don't Blame Me, Don't Ever Leave Me, Early Autumn, I Waited for You, I'm All for You, Joyous Encounter, Like Someone in Love, Monk's Mood, Pannonica, Quiet Lady, Six and Four, Stella by Starlight, The Summary (From Suite for Pops)
Charlie Haden drums, percussion Bay City, Body Beautiful, Body and Soul, Circus ’68 ’69, Crossroads, El quinto reqimiento (The Fifth Regiment) / Los cuatro generales (The Four Generals) / Viva la quince brigada (Long Live the Fifteenth Brigade), Farmer's Trust II, For a Free Portugal, Ida Lupino, La Pasionaria, Latin Genetics, Lisa, Lonely Woman, New Beginning, Silence, So Far So Good, Solar, Song for Ché, Song of the United Front, The Blessing, The Ending to the First Side, The Interlude (Drinking Music), The Introduction, Turnaround, Turnaround / When Will the Blues Leave?, Vignette, War Orphans, We Shall Overcome
Djinnocide drums, percussion Blues in Motion, Cabala/Drum Music, Dolphy's Dance, Etude I, Etude II, Fiasco, First Song, For John Malachi, Home, I'm All Smiles, In the Year of the Dragon, Invisible, La Pasionara, Last Call, Law Years, Lonely Woman, Marmduke, No More Mr Nice Guy, Oblivion, Rain, Rollano, Sandino, See You at Per Tutti's, Segment, Shuffle Montgomery, Silence, You'll Never Know
Jeriah Humphrey drums A Shoulder to Cry On, At Home With the Blues, Blues for Five, Blues for Three Horns, Body and Soul, Five, For Pete’s Sake, Franzy Pants, Gone With the Wind, I Can’t Get Started, I Remember You, If I’m Lucky, Just One of Those Things, Lullaby of the Leaves, Portrait of Ravi, She’s Different, Tenderly, The Chant, The Explorer, The Lady Is a Tramp, There Will Never Be Another You, Third Moon, Villa Jazz, Zonk
Paul Motian and the Electric Bebop Band drums 'round Midnight, 2 Bass Hit, 5 Miles to Wrentham, Arabesque, Ask Me How, Be-Bop, Endgame, Half-Nelson, Holiday for Strings, It Never Entered My Mind, Look to the Black Wall, Luteous Pangolin, Morpion, Oh, What a Beautiful Morning, Ornithology, Reincarnation of a Love Bird, Roundup, Skippy, Split Decision, Waseenonet
M!lan drums Alice in Wonderland, Another Tango, Bill Evans, But Beautiful, Part 1, But Beautiful, Part 2, Diane, Gloria's Step, Hot House, Laurie, Little Rootie Tootie, Mode VI, Off the Cuff, Peri's Scope, Puccini's Walk, Rhapsody, Song No.1, They Say That Falling in Love Is Wonderful, Turn Out the Stars, Very Early
Paul Bley drums Around Again, Calls, Closer, For the Love of Sarah, Hand Dance, Ictus, Ida Lupino, Ida Lupino (alternate take), King Horn, Line Down, Memories, Monica Jane, Nothing Ever Was, Anyway, Once Around the Park, Seven, Syndrome, Turns
Johan Grettve percussion Ballade, Batterie, Diane, Excerpt, Finale, Inside, Just Us, Love Hurts, No. 3, Notes, Piano Solo No. 1, Turns, West 107th Street
Gazelle Twin drums Dance, Dreamland, Harmony, I Have the Room Above Her, Odd Man Out, One in Three, Osmosis, Part I, Osmosis, Part III, Shadows, Sketches, The Bag Man, The Riot Act
Enrico Rava drums Blancasnow, Certi angoli segreti, Count Dracula, Improvisation I, Improvisation II, Interiors, Lady Orlando, Lulù, Luna urbana, Outsider, Thank You, Come Again
Enrico Pieranunzi drums Amarcord, Cabiria's Dream, Fellini's Waltz, I vitelloni, Il bidone, parte 1, Il bidone, parte 2, La città delle donne, La dolce vita, parte 1, La dolce vita, parte 2, La strada, Le notti di Cabiria
Enrico Pieranunzi Trio drums A Nameless Gate, Body and Soul, Canzone di Nausicaa, If I Should Lose You, It Speaks for Itself, L'Heure oblique, Over the Rainbow, Someday My Prince Will Come, The Night Gone By, Yesterdays
Richard Grantham drums Eighty-One, I'm So Lonesome, I Could Cry, Introduction, Misterioso, Monroe, On the Street Where You Live, Pretty Polly, Raise Four, Worse and Worse, You Are My Sunshine
Comi Banga drums Blues for Josh, Dark Victory, Enough Is Enough, Insanity, Latin Genetics, Memoirs, Monk's Dream, New Flame, Sting a Ring, This Is the Hour
Billy Lewis & The Rockin' Hearts drums, percussion Els Segadors, Grandola Vila Morena, If You Want to Write Me, Introduction to People, La Pasionaria, La Santa Espina, Silence, The Ballad of the Fallen, The People United Will Never Be Defeated, Too Late
Al Arrow drums A Prayer for Peace, Fiasco, For Turiya, In the Year of the Dragon, It Should Have Happened a Long Time Ago, Mumbo Jumbo, Obtuse Angles, Song for the Whales, Vanguard Blues
Kyriakos Christoforou drums A Minor Blues in F, Come Rain or Come Shine, Eiderdown, From Time to Time, It's You, Johnny Broken Wing, Ladies' Waders, Luiza, Thingin'
Alan Pasqua drums Dedicated to You, Ellingtonia, Grace, Homage, Mr. Softee, San Michele, Shalako, Taiowa, The Emergence
Paul Motian Trio drums Circle Dance, For the Love of Sarah, Good Idea, If You Could See Me Now, Monk's Mood, Morpion, One Time Out, Portrait of T., The Storyteller
Carla Bley drums Caucasian Bird Riffles, Enormous Tots, Funnybird Song, In India, Indonesian Dock Sucking Supreme, Nothing, Song of the Jungle Stream, What Will Be Left Between Us and the Moon Tonight?
Mario Nentwich drums 26-2, Abacus, Ba-Lue Bolivar Ba-Lues-Are, Conception Vessel, Cymbalism, Lonnie's Lament, Mu-Point
David Friesen drums Amber Skies, Blue and Green, In the Place of Calling, Jenelle Number Four, Sitka in the Woods, Underlying, Voices
Tim Berne drums Flies / The Ancient Ones (for Alex Cline), New Dog/Old Tricks, Roberto Miguel (for Roberto Miguel Miranda), San Antonio / The Unknown Factor (for Akira Kurosawa), Shirley's Song (for Shirley Britt) / The Mutant of Alberan, Stroll
Yvonne Adair drums And So to Sleep Again, Gang of 5, Standard Time, Ten, The Hoax, The Third Walk
Risto Räti drums I Fall in Love Too Easily, Loverman, Lullaby of Birdland, Oleo, Solar, You Stepped Out of a Dream
Sachin-Jigar drums Cashmere, Gymnopedie, I Love You, Lover Man, Nirvana, Willow Weep for Me
Naor de Oliveira drums, percussion Everything That Lives Laments, Life, Dance, Piece for Ornette, Rainbow, Song for Che, Take Me Back
Gonzalo Rubalcaba drums All the Things You Are, First Song, Joao, Once Around the Park, Velas, Well You Needn’t
George Russell drums Concerto for Billy the Kid, Concerto for Billy the Kid (Alternate Take), Night Sound, Round Johnny Rondo, Witch Hunt
John Edney drums Dream Keeper, Nkosi Sikelel`i Afrika, Rabo De Nube, Sandino, Spiritual
Johann Erasmus Kindermann drums Blues, Getting Started, Long Ago and Far Away, Moor, When Will the Blues Leave
The Paul Bley Quartet drums After Dark, Heat, Interplay, One in Four, Triste
Chris Margolin & The Dregs drums After You've Gone, It Had to Be You, Lover Come Back to Me, Wee Dot
Andrew Hill drums Diddy Wah, Ocho Rios, The Dance