Arthur Blythe Discography & Songs

Album

1977 The Grip

• 1 The Grip
• 2 Spirits in the Field
• 3 Sunrise Service
• 4 Lower Nile
• 5 As of Yet
• 6 My Son Ra

1978 Bush Baby

• 1 Mamie Lee
• 2 For Fats
• 3 Off the Top
• 4 Bush Baby

1979 In The Tradition

• 1 Jitterbug Waltz
• 2 In a Sentimental Mood
• 3 Break Tune
• 4 Caravan
• 5 Hip Dripper
• 6 Naima

1979 Lenox Avenue Breakdown

• 1 Down San Diego Way
• 2 Lenox Avenue Breakdown
• 3 Slidin' Through
• 4 Odessa

1979 Metamorphosis

• 1 Duet for Two
• 2 Metamorphosis
• 3 Shadows

1980 Illusions

• 1 Bush Baby
• 2 Miss Nancy
• 3 Illusions
• 4 My Son Ra
• 5 Carespin' With Mamie
• 6 As of Yet

1981 Blythe Spirit

• 1 Contemplation
• 2 Faceless Woman
• 3 Reverence
• 4 Strike Up The Band
• 5 Misty
• 6 Spirits In The Field
• 7 Just A Closer Walk With Thee

1982 Elaborations

• 1 Elaborations
• 2 Metamorphosis
• 3 Sister Daisy
• 4 One Mint Julep
• 5 Shadows
• 6 The Lower Nile

1983 Light Blue - Arthur Blythe Plays Thelonious Monk

• 1 We See, We See
• 2 Light Blue
• 3 Off Minor
• 4 Epistrophy
• 5 Coming on the Hudson
• 6 Nutty

1985 Put Sunshine In It

• 1 Tumalumah
• 2 Put Sunshine in It
• 3 Uptown Strut
• 4 Silhouette
• 5 #5
• 6 Sentimental Walk (Theme From Diva)

1986 da - da

• 1 Odessa
• 2 Splain Thang
• 3 Esquinas (Corners)
• 4 Crescent
• 5 Break Tune
• 6 After Paris

1988 Basic Blythe

• 1 Autumn in New York (Part One)
• 2 Lenox Avenue Breakdown
• 3 Heart to Heart
• 4 As of Yet
• 5 Ruby My Dear
• 6 Faceless Woman
• 7 Autumn in New York (Part Two)

1988 Pale Fire

• 1 Sister Daisy
• 2 Insipid
• 3 Bathsheba
• 4 Smokey and Ruby
• 5 La Indomable (For Susanna)
• 6 Pale Fire

1991 Hipmotism

• 1 Dear Dessa
• 2 Dance Benita Dance
• 3 Cousin Sidney
• 4 Shadows
• 5 Hipmotism
• 6 Miss Eugie
• 7 Matter Of Fact
• 8 Bush Baby
• 9 My Son Ra

1992 Salutes the Saxophone

• 1 Cottontail
• 2 Parker's Mood
• 3 Impressions
• 4 You Don't Know What Love Is
• 5 The Panther
• 6 Body and Soul
• 7 St Thomas
• 8 Red Top
• 9 Lester Leaps In

1993 3-Ology

• 1 Hipnotism
• 2 Elaborations
• 3 Our Thing
• 4 Jitterbug Waltz
• 5 A Nightingale Sang at Berkeley Square
• 6 Portrait
• 7 Get Out If You Can

1993 Ease On

• 1 Good News
• 2 Ease On
• 3 Side View
• 4 Blues on the Corner
• 5 Modal Scallopini
• 6 Mid Move
• 7 Gas Mask

1995 Calling Card

• 1 As Of Yet
• 2 Blue Blues
• 3 Naima's Love Song
• 4 Hip Dripper
• 5 Odessa
• 6 Elaborations
• 7 Jitterbug Waltz
• 8 Break Tune

1995 Focus

• 1 Bemsha Swing
• 2 Blackfoot
• 3 Ah, George, We Hardly Knew Ya
• 4 To Hear a Tear, Drop in the Rain
• 5 Playpen
• 6 Peacemaker
• 7 Rhythm-A-Ning

1997 Down Home

• 1 Mighty Fine
• 2 Little Boy
• 3 Wide Load
• 4 The Crock Pot
• 5 What
• 6 Listen to the Woman
• 7 Aren't We All?
• 8 Supposing

1997 Synergy

• 1 Morning Call
• 2 Earth Tones
• 3 Synergy
• 4 Time Circles
• 5 Infinity
• 6 Afternoon Musing
• 7 Sociability
• 8 Walking Line
• 9 Night Scape

1998 Today's Blues

• 1 The John & The Sam
• 2 Gee's Minor Mood
• 3 Calling Mr. Blythe
• 4 American Forms 2
• 5 Warne Waltz
• 6 Eleven + Six
• 7 Prayer
• 8 Worker Bee
• 9 Something Like You
• 10 N Double Flat
• 11 My Sun Ra
• 12 Today's Blues
• 13 Randy Andy
• 14 No Solitude
• 15 Jig Tag
• 16 Encore

1999 We'll Soon Find Out

• 1 Slow Charleston
• 2 Closer Than You Think
• 3 Junior
• 4 Time to Cry
• 5 Wisely
• 6 Bit o' Water
• 7 M
• 8 Equaled
• 9 Contact

2001 Blythe Byte

• 1 Hardly
• 2 Besame Mucho
• 3 Blue Monk
• 4 Light Blue
• 5 And One
• 6 My Little Brown Book
• 7 Naima
• 8 Ruby My Dear
• 9 Blythe Byte
• 10 What a Friend We Have in Jesus

2002 Sky

• 1 It Is What It Is
• 2 Chelsea
• 3 Juliet
• 4 Sky
• 5 Two
• 6 The Eye of the Heart
• 7 No Question, No Answer
• 8 Why It Is
• 9 Pulse

2003 Exhale

• 1 Cousin Mary
• 2 Come Sunday
• 3 Exhaust Suite: Nonette
• 4 Exhaust Suite: Surrender
• 5 Exhaust Suite: LC
• 6 Exhaust Suite: Phase Two
• 7 Night Train
• 8 7/4 Thang
• 9 Equinox
• 10 Just Friends
• 11 CJ
• 12 All Blues
• 13 Straighten Up and Fly Right
• 14 Exhale

2004 Ace

• 1 Ace
• 2 There You Go
• 3 All Those Years
• 4 Trudy
• 5 L.J.
• 6 Blues for Mary
• 7 Channel
• 8 Gulls
• 9 Waiting for Bob
• 10 Parade

2005 Echoes

• 1 Mr. Syms
• 2 Minor League
• 3 Sweet Dulcinea
• 4 Echoes
• 5 Skylark
• 6 You Don't Know What Love Is
• 7 Fee fi Fo Fum
• 8 The Moon and You
• 9 Beautiful Love
• 10 Where Are You

2016 Lenox Avenue Breakdown / In the Tradition / Illusions / Blythe Spirit

• 1 Down San Diego Way
• 2 Lenox Avenue Breakdown
• 3 Slidin’ Through
• 4 Odessa
• 5 Jitterbug Waltz
• 6 In a Sentimental Mood
• 7 Break Tune
• 8 Caravan
• 9 Hip Dripper
• 10 Naima
• 1 Bush Baby
• 2 Miss Nancy
• 3 Illusions
• 4 My Son Ra
• 5 Carespin’ with Mamie
• 6 As of Yet
• 7 Contemplation
• 8 Faceless Woman
• 9 Reverence
• 10 Strike Up the Band
• 11 Misty
• 12 Spirits in the Field
• 13 Just a Closer Walk with Thee

   --   44th Street Suite

• 1 Bessie's Blues
• 2 Blue Piano
• 3 Not for Beginners
• 4 Falling in Love With Love
• 5 44th Street Suite - Part I
• 6 44th Street Suite - Part II

EP

1988 Autumn In New York (Part One)

• 1 Autumn in New York (Part One)
• 2 Heart to Heart
• 3 Autumn in New York (Part Two)