Alto Records Checklist

compiled by François Ziegler
October 1997  (last update: November 2000)

with help from Görgen Antonsson, Brian W. Burgess, Wellington Choy, Michael Fitzgerald, Jack Woker.

Please note: This is not a sales catalog, it's a research help for discographers.

AL	ARTIST	TITLE	REC.
701	Miles Davis Birdland All Stars	The Persuasively Coherent Miles Davis	48 50
702	Count Basie Anita O'Day	Count Basie - Anita O'Day	45,48 48
703	Dizzy Gillespie	Melodic Revolution	48
704	Stan Getz	That Top Tenor Technician	52
705	Woody Herman	Bill Harris & Serge Chaloff & Woody Herman	48
706	Ray Brown Ella Fitzgerald	Ray Brown - Ella Fitzgerald	48 48
707	Lester Young	Cool Riff	48,49
708	Lionel Hampton	Colossal Vibes And Sticks	49,50
709	Nat King Cole Erroll Garner	20 Dynamic Fingers	49,50 50
710	Duke Ellington Count Basie	He's Mr. Edward Kennedy	51 51
711	Dave Brubeck	Modern Complex Dialogues	51,52
712	Erroll Garner Art Tatum	176 Keys - 20 Fingers	52 52
713	Sarah Vaughan	Solo Impact	52
714	Charles Mingus Billy Taylor	Vital Savage Horizons	61,62 51
715	Bud Powell	First And Foremost	53
716	Modern Jazz Quartet	Classic Concepts	55
717	Gerry Mulligan	Provocative Tones	55,61,62
718	Oscar Peterson	Canadian Keys	53,54,55
719	Bill Evans	A Rare Original	60
720	Art Blakey	Drums Ablaze	60
721	Art Blakey & Buddy Rich	Electric Sticks	60
722	Cannonball Adderley	An Orderly Revolution	60,62
723	Herbie Mann	Wailin' Modernist	60
724	John Coltrane	Impassioned Tenor Man	62,63
725	Thelonious Monk	Spastic And Personal	63

Label established by Boris Rose around 1972.

Bibliography:
The full series is documented in Ralph Laing & Chris Sheridan, Jazz Records: The Specialist Labels, JazzMedia ApS, Copenhagen, 1981 (in print).

Items in green cells need confirmation.