Ray Nance

trumpet, violin, cornet, vocal

Sample recordings

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Top collaborators

Artist name Roles Recordings
Duke Ellington & His Orchestra
Ella Fitzgerald
Nyke
Earl Hines and His Orchestra
Duke Ellington (American composer, pianist, & jazz bandleader)

Work on other artists' recordings

Artist name Roles Recordings
Duke Ellington & His Orchestra vocal, cornet, trumpet, violin A Beautiful Friendship, A Slip of the Lip (Can Sink a Ship), Absinthe, Afro-Bossa, After All, Alice Blue Gown, All My Loving, All of Me, Angu, Arabesque Cookie (Arabian dance), Are You Sticking?, Asphalt Jungle, Bakiff, Black and Tan Fantasy, Bli-Blip, Blues, Blues in Blueprint, Blues in Orbit, Blues in Orbit (Tender) (alternate take), Blues in Orbit (alternate take), Body and Soul, Bonga, Brown Penny, Bula, C Jam Blues, Caliné (Silk Lace), Chelsea Bridge, Chinoiserie (Chinese dance), Chocolate Shake, Come Sunday (a cappella), Concerto for Cootie, Cop Out, Cop-Out, Copout Extension, Cotton Tail, Creole Love Call, Danse of the Floreadores (Waltz of the Flowers), Day Dream, Day in, Day Out (live), Days of Wine and Roses, Deep Purple, Diminuendo in Blue and Crescendo in Blue (live), Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me, Don't Get Around Much Anymore, Duael Fuel, Part I, Duael Fuel, Part II, Duael Fuel, Part III, E.S.P. (Extra Sensory Perception), Echoes of Harlem, Eighth Veil, Entr'Acte, Everything but You, Festival Suite: Part I. Festival Junction (live), Festival Suite: Part I. Festival Junction (production), Festival Suite: Part II. Blues to Be There (live), Festival Suite: Part II. Blues to Be There (production), Festival Suite: Part III. Newport Up (live), Festival Suite: Part III. Newport Up (production), Flirtibird, Flying Home, Frustration, Got a Date With an Angel, Guitar Amour (Paris Blues), Gypsy Love Song, Happy Go Lucky Local, Happy-Go-Lucky Local, Hayfoot Strawfoot, Honeysuckle Rose, I Can't Get Started, I Don't Know What Kind of Blues I Got, I Don't Mind, I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good) (live), I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good) (production), I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good, I Want to Hold Your Hand, I'm Beginning to See the Light, Idiom '59, Idiom '59, Part I, Idiom '59, Part II, Idiom '59, Part III, In a Mellow Tone, In a Sentimental Mood, In the Mood, Indian Love Call, Indian Summer, It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing), Jam With Sam, Jeep's Blues, Jeep's Blues (studio), John Hardy's Wife, Johnny Come Lately, Jones, Jump for Joy, Jumpin' Punkins, Just A-Sittin' and A-Rockin', Kinda Dukish, Kinda Dukish/Rockin' in Rhythm, Lady in Red, Laugh, Clown, Laugh, Launching Pad, Laura, Liberian Suite: Dance No. 1, Liberian Suite: Dance No. 2, Liberian Suite: Dance No. 3, Liberian Suite: Dance No. 4, Liberian Suite: Dance No. 5, Liberian Suite: I Like the Sunrise, Main Stem, Midriff, Mood Indigo, Moon Mist, Moon Over Cuba, Moon River, Moonbow, My Funny Valentine, My Little Brown Book, On the Sunny Side of the Street, One O'Clock Jump, Overture, Part I (1958 alternate take), Part I (Work Song), Part II (Come Sunday), Part II (alternate take), Part III (Light) (alternate take), Part III (Work Song & Come Sunday a.k.a. Light), Part IV (Come Sunday), Part IV (Come Sunday) (alternate take), Part V (Come Sunday Interlude), Part V (Come Sunday) (alternate take), Part VI (23rd Psalm), Part VI (23rd Psalm) (alternate take), Peanut Brittle Brigade (March), Perdido, Pie Eye's Blues, Pie Eye's Blues (alternate take), Poor Butterfly, Purple Gazelle, Pyramid, Raincheck, Red Roses for a Blue Lady, Rockin' In Rhythm, Rockin' in Rhythm, Rocks in My Bed, Rose of the Rio Grande, Satan Takes a Holiday, Satin Doll, Sempre amoré, Sentimental Lady, Sherman Shuffle, Silk Lace, Skin Deep, Smada, Someone, Sophisticated Lady (live), Star-Crossed Lovers, Stompin' at the Savoy, Studio Concert (excerpts), Sugar Rum Cherry, Suite Thursday: Lay-By, Suite Thursday: Misfit Blues, Suite Thursday: Schwiphti, Suite Thursday: Zweet Zurzday, Summertime, Sweet & Pungent, Sweet & Pungent (alternate take), Take the "A" Train, Take the ''A'' Train, The Blues (From Black, Brown and Beige), The Brown-Skin Gal (in the Calico Gown), The Controversial Suite, Part 1: Before My Time, The Controversial Suite, Part 2: Later, The Donkey Serenade, The Eighth Veil, The Giddybug Gallop, The Girl in My Dreams Tries to Look Like You, The Mooche, The Peanut Vendor, The Queen's Suite: Apes and Peacocks, The Queen's Suite: Le Sucrier Velours, The Queen's Suite: Lightning Bugs and Frogs, The Queen's Suite: Northern Lights, The Queen's Suite: Sunset and the Mocking Bird, The Sidewalks of New York, The Star-Crossed Lovers, The Swinger's Jump, The Swinger's Jump (alternate take), The Swingers Get the Blues Too, The Swingers Get the Blues, Too, The Volga Vouty (Russian dance), Theme from "Asphalt Jungle", Things Ain't What They Used to Be, Three J's Blues, Tigress, Tone Parallel to Harlem, Toot Toot Tootie Toot (Dance of the Reed-Pipes), Track 360, Track 360 (Trains) (alternate take), Track 360 (alternate take), Tulip or Turnip, Tutti for Cootie, U.M.M.G., V.I.P.'s Boogie, Villes Ville Is the Place, Man, Volupté, Wham (Re-Bop-Bam), What Am I Here For?, What Good Would It Do?, Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf, [studio conversation: Mahalia swears]
Ella Fitzgerald trumpet, violin All Too Soon, Bli-Blip, Caravan, Chelsea Bridge, Chelsea Bridge (alternate take), Clementine, Day Dream, Drop Me Off in Harlem, Everything but You, I Ain't Got Nothin' but the Blues, I Didn't Know About You, I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good), I'm Beginning to See the Light, I'm Just a Lucky So and So, Lost in Meditation, Perdido, Portrait of Ella Fitzgerald: Royal Ancestry / All Heart / Beyond Category / Total Jazz, Rockin' in Rhythm, Take the "A" Train, The E and D Blues (E for Ella, D for Duke)
Nyke trumpet Grievin', Hey Baby, I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good), I'm Checking Out, Go'om Bye, If You Were in My Place (What Would You Do?), It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing), Just A-Sittin' and A-Rockin', Me and You, Mood Indigo, Passion Flower, Sophisticated Lady
Earl Hines and His Orchestra trumpet A Mellow Bit of Rhythm, Blue Skies, Dominick Swing, Goodnight, Sweet Dreams, Goodnight, Hines Rhythm, Please Be Kind, Rhythm Rhapsody, Tippin' at the Terrace
Duke Ellington vocal, trumpet, violin Blue Serge, C Jam Blues, Clementine, Five O'Clock Drag, Just Squeeze Me, Main Stem, Perdido, Take the "A" Train
Spookhuisje trumpet "C" Jam Blues, Caravan, Happy-Go-Lucky Local, Jam With Sam, Just A-Sittin' and A-Rockin', Paris Blues, Ready, Go, Take the "A" Train
Budd Johnson trumpet, violin All My Love, Blue Lou, Blues for Lester (Memories of Lester Young, Part I), Don't Blame Me, Driftwood, I'll Get By, The Message (Memories of Lester Young, Part II, Trinity River Bottom
Paul Gonsalves trumpet Chocataw, D.A. Blues, Day Dream, I'm Beginning to See the Light, It's Something That You Ought to Know, The Line-Up, Way, Way Back
Earl Hines trumpet A Mellow Bit of Rhythm, Goodnight, Sweet Dreams, Goodnight (Alt Tk -2), Ridin' a Riff, Solid Mama, Solid Mama (Alt Tk -2)
Dizzy Gillespie violin Birks' Works, Blues for Max, Lover Come Back to Me, Lullaby of the Leaves
Edna Bentz Woods vocal, trumpet Bli-Blip, Flamingo, Midriff
Horace Henderson and His Orchestra vocal They Jittered All the Time
Johnny Hodges trumpet Preacher Blues
Lee Konitz violin Duplexity
DJ Fano violin Part V (Come Sunday Interlude)
Dennis O'Keeffe trumpet Blues Riff
AKIO trumpet Hy'a Sue
White Cascade trumpet Blue Rose
ヲタみん trumpet I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart