Duke Ellington And His Orchestra The Jazz Composer's Orchestra The Sessions Band Sam Rivers' Rivbea All-star Orchestra Labamba's Big Band Mingus Big Band Mario Pavone Octet The Frank Wess Orchestra Kamikaze Ground Crew The Sound Visions Orchestra The New York Composers Orchestra Steve Elson's Lips & Fingers Ensemble The Lucifers Jerome Harris Quintet Michael Musillami Octet
ex The George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band, Ballin' The Jack, Saheb Sarbib And His Multinational Big Band
ex The George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band, Ballin' The Jack, Saheb Sarbib And His Multinational Big Band
Art Baron joined the Duke Ellington band in August 1973 at the age of 23, the last trombonist Ellington ever hired. Previously he had spent time on the road working with Buddy Rich, Stevie Wonder, and James Taylor.
ALBUMS
Duke Ellington And His Orchestra
The Last Tour: Farewell From Vienna, 1973
2024, 2xLP, Album, ORF
Kamikaze Ground Crew
Postcards From The Highwire
2007, 2xCD, Album, 8 p, Busmeat Records, 
,
, Contemporary Jazz
Amandla
The Full Catastrophe
2006, CD, Album, Stonybrook Records
Michael Musillami Octet
Spirits
2004, CD, Album, Playscape Recordings
Mingus Big Band
The Essential Mingus Big Band
2001
Mario Pavone Octet
Totem Blues
2000, CD, Album, Knitting Factory Works
The George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band
Merryteria
1999, CD, Album, TCB Records (2)
Jerome Harris Quintet
Rendezvous
1999, CD, Album, Stereophile
Kamikaze Ground Crew
Covers
1999, CD, Album, Koch Jazz, ,
, Contemporary Jazz/Avant-garde Jazz
The George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band
Beyond Another Wall (Live In China)
1994, CD, TCB Records (2)
Mingus Big Band
Mingus Big Band 93 - Nostalgia In Times Square
1993
The New York Composers Orchestra
First Program In Standard Time
1992, CD, Album, New World Records, CounterCurrents
The Frank Wess Orchestra
Entre Nous
1991
The George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band
Blues 'N Dues Et Cetera
1991, 
,
, Contemporary Jazz/Big Band
The New York Composers Orchestra
The New York Composers Orchestra
1990
Saheb Sarbib And His Multinational Big Band
Live At The Public Theater
1981, LP, Album, Cadence Jazz Records, ,
, Free Jazz/Afrobeat/Avant-garde Jazz/Big Band
Duke Ellington And His Orchestra
Duke Ellington's Third Sacred Concert, The Majesty Of God, As Performed In Westminster Abbey
1975, ,
, Gospel/Big Band/Vocal
APPEARANCES +
John Lurie
Music from the Series, Painting With John
2024, 2xLP, Comp, Ltd, The Royal Potato Family, ,
, Avant-garde Jazz/Score/Contemporary Jazz/Country Blues/Folk
Bruce Springsteen
Palalottomatica, Rome, Italy. October 10, 2006
2022
Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga
Cheek To Cheek Live!
2022
Bruce Springsteen
Wembley Arena, November 11, 2006
2020, 2x CDr,
Illinois Jacquet
The Jacquet Files, Volume 10 (Big Band Live At The Village Vanguard 1987)
2019, CD, Album, Squatty Roo Records
Sid Whelan
Waitin' For Payday
2019,
Bruce Springsteen
Fair Grounds Race Course, New Orleans, April 30, 2006
2017,
Chris Rogers, Michael Brecker, Ted Nash, Steve Khan, Xavier Davis, Jay Anderson, Steve Johns, Roger Rosenberg
Voyage Home
2016, CD, Album, Art Of Life Records, ,
, Post Bop/Fusion/Contemporary Jazz
She & Him
Classics
2014,
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky*, Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn ; Harmonie Ensemble/New York*, Steven Richman
The Nutcracker Suites
2013, CD, Album, Harmonia Mundi, ,
, Romantic/Big Band
Various
Son Of Rogues Gallery (Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys)
2013, 2x CD, 
,
, Folk Rock/Sea Shanties
Garland Jeffreys
Truth Serum
2013, CD,
Bruce Springsteen
Collection: 1973-2012
2013, CD Digisleeve, ,
, Pop Rock/Classic Rock/Folk Rock
She & Him
Volume 3
2013, ,
, Indie Pop
Bruce Springsteen
Rocky Ground
2012, ,
, Pop Rock
Bruce Springsteen
Wrecking Ball
2012, CD, ,
, Rock & Roll/Hard Rock
Elliott Sharp
Spectropia Suite
2010, CD, ,
, Experimental/Avant-garde Jazz
Veronica Martell
The Great City
2008, CD, Album, In The Groove
Various
The Jewish Americans: Original Television Soundtrack
2008, CD, Album, Rounder Records
Marianne Faithfull
Easy Come Easy Go
2008, 2x Vinyl,
Southside Johnny With LaBamba's Big Band
Grapefruit Moon (The Songs Of Tom Waits)
2008, CD, ,
, Big Band
Bruce Springsteen With The Sessions Band
Live In Dublin
2007, ,
, Folk Rock/Country Rock
John Legend
Once Again LP Sampler
2006, 12", Promo, Smplr, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Sony Urban Music, Columbia, Getting Out Our Dreams, ,
, Contemporary R&B/Neo Soul/Soul
Bruce Springsteen
We Shall Overcome - The Seeger Sessions
2006, ,
, Folk Rock/Country Rock
Various
Rogue's Gallery (Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, & Chanteys)
2006, 2x CD, ,
, Folk Rock/Folk/Sea Shanties
John Legend
Once Again
2006
Chocolate Genius Inc.*
Black Yankee Rock
2005, ,
, Alternative Rock
Allen Ginsberg
Wichita Vortex Sutra
2004, CD, Album, Artemis Records, ,
, Spoken Word
Various
Mama's Lullaby - Lullabies Sung By Women Around The World
2004, CD, Comp, Ellipsis Arts, ,
, Nursery Rhymes/Lullaby
Various
Mama's Lullaby - Lullabies Sung By Women Around The World
2004, CD, Comp, Ellipsis Arts, ,
, Nursery Rhymes/Lullaby
Cyro Baptista
Beat The Donkey Beat
2004
Various
Dreyfus Story
2003, CD, Comp, Musica Jazz, High Tide, 
Oswald
Pop Goes The Octopus
2003, CD, Album, Nick Records, Jive, ,
, Soundtrack
Lou Reed
The Raven
2003, CD, ,
, Alternative Rock/Avantgarde/Experimental/Art Rock
The Wayfaring Strangers
This Train
2003, CD,
Geoff Muldaur's Futuristic Ensemble
Private Astronomy - A Vision Of The Music Of Bix Beiderbecke
2003, CD,
Lou Grassi's PoBand And John Tchicai
ComPOsed
2002, CD, CIMP
Jack Walrath & The Masters Of Suspense, Miles Griffith, Bill Bickford, Hill Green, Cecil Brooks III
Invasion Of The Booty Shakers
2002, CD, Album, Savant
Michael Musillami, Mario Pavone
Pivot
2002, CD, Album, Playscape Recordings
Duke Ellington
Live And Rare
2002, ,
, Big Band/Swing/Vocal
Jonathan Bepler
Music For Matthew Barney's Cremaster 3
2002, ,
, Soundtrack/Modern Classical/Post-Modern/Experimental
Alan Silva & The Sound Visions Orchestra
Alan Silva & The Sound Visions Orchestra
2001, CD, Album, Eremite Records
Erika Stucky
Bubbles & Bones
2001, CD, Album, Traumton Records,
Various
Red Hot + Indigo
2001
Gigi
Gigi
2001, CD, ,
, Fusion/Drum n Bass/Reggae/Dub/Dark Jazz/African
Theodore Shapiro
State And Main: Music From The Motion Picture
2000, CD, Album, RCA Victor, BMG, ,
, Score/Soundtrack
Peggy Stern
[Actual Size]
2000, CD, Album, Koch Jazz,
Various
The Best Of Ken Burns Jazz
2000, CD, ,
, Big Band/Dixieland/Bop/Post Bop/Swing
Last Forever
Trainfare Home
2000, CD,
Various
Ken Burns Jazz (The Story Of America's Music)
2000, 5x CD, Box Set, ,
, Bop/Contemporary Jazz/Free Jazz/Fusion/Dixieland/Modal/Swing/Hard Bop/Post Bop/Jazz-Rock/Big Band/Country Blues/Piano Blues/Ragtime
Ballin' The Jack
Jungle
1999, CD, Album, Knitting Factory Records, ,
, Contemporary Jazz
Spiegle Willcox With The Galvanized Jazz Band
A Perfect Life
1999, CD, Album, GJB,
Feidman*
Journey
1999, CD, Album, pläne, ,
, Fusion
Sam Rivers' Rivbea All-star Orchestra
Culmination
1999, 
,
, Contemporary Jazz
Burhan Öçal & Jamaaladeen Tacuma Featuring Natacha Atlas
Groove Alla Turca
1999
Sam Rivers' Rivbea All-star Orchestra
Inspiration
1999, ,
, Contemporary Jazz
The Legendary Marvin Pontiac*
Greatest Hits
1999, ,
, Country Blues/Acoustic/Indie Rock/Folk
Evan Lurie
How I Spent My Vacation
1998, CD, Album, Tzadik, ,
, Soundtrack/Contemporary Jazz
Anthony Wilson
Goat Hill Junket
1998, CD, Album, Mama Records (2)
Jack Walrath
Godzilla Jazz
1998, CD, Album, Paddle Wheel
Phyllis Hyman
One On One
1998, CD, ,
, Soul-Jazz/Rhythm & Blues/Contemporary Jazz/Soul
Glen Velez
Rhythmcolor Exotica
1997, CD, Album, Ellipsis Arts
Feidman*
Klezmer Celebration
1997
Elliott Sharp
Arc 1 - I/S/M (1980-1983)
1996, CD, Album, Comp, Atavistic
Jimmie Maxwell And His Jazz Gentlemen
Let's Fall In Love
1996, CD, Album, Progressive Records (2), ,
, Dixieland
Marisa Monte
Barulhinho Bom (Uma Viagem Musical)
1996, 2x CD, 
,
, MPB
Dar Williams
The Honesty Room / Mortal City
1996
Various
Get Shorty (Original MGM Motion Picture Soundtrack)
1995, CD, ,
, Soundtrack/Rhythm & Blues/Acid Jazz
Denise Jannah
I Was Born In Love With You
1995, 
,
, Bop
Fontella Bass
No Ways Tired
1995, ,
, Rhythm & Blues/Gospel
Cleo Laine With The Duke Ellington Orchestra
Solitude
1995, ,
, Easy Listening
Various
Jazz at Lincoln Center Presents: Fire Of The Fundamentals
1994, Cass, Comp, Columbia,
Jazz At Lincoln Center
They Came To Swing
1994, CD, ,
, Big Band/Swing
Ray Anderson
Big Band Record
1994, CD, 
,
, Big Band/Contemporary Jazz
Annea Lockwood
Thousand Year Dreaming
1993
Mader
The Wedding Banquet (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
1993
Giora Feidman
Klassic Klezmer
1993, ,
, Klezmer
Various
Weird Nightmare: Meditations On Mingus Special Sampler
1992, CD, Promo, Smplr, Columbia,
Various
The Progressive Records All Star Tenor Sax Spectacular and The Progressive Records All Star Trombone Spectacular
1992, CD, Comp, Progressive Records (2), ,
, Swing/Bop
Giora Feidman
The Dance Of Joy
1992
David Sanborn
Upfront
1992, ,
, Fusion/Rhythm & Blues/Contemporary Jazz
Anthony Davis
X, The Life And Times Of Malcolm X, An Opera In Three Acts
1992, 2x CD, ,
, Contemporary Jazz/Contemporary
Robin Holcomb
Rockabye
1992, CD, ,
, Contemporary Jazz
Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra*
Portraits By Ellington
1992
Various
Weird Nightmare (Meditations On Mingus)
1992, CD, ,
, Contemporary Jazz
Steve Elson's Lips & Fingers Ensemble
Lips & Fingers
1991, CD, Album, Open Minds, Open Minds
Mel Tormé
Recorded Live At The Fujitsu-Concord Jazz Festival In Japan '90
1991,
Phyllis Hyman
Prime Of My Life
1991, CD, ,
, Downtempo/Soul/Contemporary R&B
Bobby Watson
The Year Of The Rabbit
1991
Taj Mahal
Like Never Before
1991, CD, ,
, Country Blues
Various
The Aerial #2 (Spring 1990)
1990, CD, Comp, The Aerial, ,
, Musique Concrète/Field Recording/Contemporary/Avantgarde/Experimental/Ambient/Jazz-Rock/Minimal
David Sanborn
Another Hand
1990, ,
, Contemporary Jazz
Joey DeFrancesco
Where WERE You?
1990,
Various
The Civil War - Original Soundtrack Recording
1990
Jim Hartog
From Here To There
1989, CD, New Note (2), ,
, Hard Bop
The Duke Ellington Orchestra
Music Is My Mistress
1989
George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band '87*
Happening Now!
1988, CD, Album, hat ART, 
,
, Contemporary Jazz/Big Band
Various
Kimus #1
1988, CD, Comp, Ltd, Num, hat ART, ,
, Contemporary Jazz/Experimental
Mason Daring
Eight Men Out (Original Soundtrack)
1988
Illinois Jacquet & His Big Band
Jacquet's Got It
1988, Vinyl, ,
, Contemporary Jazz/Post Bop/Big Band
Mercer Ellington
Hot And Bothered (A Re-Creation)
1985
Carole* And Paula*
Musical Goose On The Loose
1985
Elliott Sharp
Ism
1982, LP, Album, Zoar Records, Zoar Records, ,
, Free Jazz/Avantgarde/Post-Punk
Various
The Progressive Records All Star Trombone Spectacular
1982, LP, Album, Progressive Records (2), ,
, Brass Band
Elliott Sharp
Moving Info
1981, Cass, EP, Zoar Records
Leata Galloway
Leata
1981, LP, Album, Ariola, Ariola,
The Smithsonian Jazz Repertory Ensemble
Duke Ellington's Symphony In Black And Other Works
1981, LP, Album, Smithsonian Collection
Jah Malla
Jah Malla
1981, 
,
, Roots Reggae
Tim Curry
Simplicity
1981
The Lighter Sound
Songs For A Friend
1980, LP, Album, Cliff Hanger
Galt MacDermot
O, Babylon!
1980, LP, Album, Kilmarnock,
Various
Breakout
1979, LP, Comp, WMMR 93.3
Phyllis*
A Feeling's Coming Over Me
1979, LP, Date Line International, Date Line International, ,
, Disco/Country/Ballad
Guy Van Duser And Billy Novick
Get Yourself A New Broom...
1979, ,
, Swing
Larry Siegel
Great Expectations
1978, LP, Cliff Hanger
Jaroslav*
Checkin' In
1978,
Alice Babs, Duke Ellington And His Orchestra, Nils Lindberg And Orchestra*
Far Away Star
1978
Various
The All Star Trombone Spectacular
1977, 
,
, Brass Band
Paula Lockheart With Peter Ecklund
Paula Lockheart With Peter Ecklund And Other Friends
1977
Guarare
Guarare
1977
Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Teresa Brewer, Thad Jones
Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Teresa Brewer, Thad Jones
1976, 2xLP, Comp, RCA, RCA, RCA International (Camden), RCA International (Camden)
George McCrae
Diamond Touch
1976, ,
, Funk/Disco
David Bromberg Band
How Late'll Ya Play 'Til?
1976, ,
, Chicago Blues/Country Blues/Delta Blues/Louisiana Blues/Electric Blues/Memphis Blues/Texas Blues
Duke Ellington
Eastbourne Performance
1975
The Duke Ellington Orchestra Under The Direction Of Mercer Ellington
Continuum
1975, ,
, Big Band/Swing
Andy Harlow
La Musica Brava
1974
Duke Ellington & Teresa Brewer
It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing
1974
Roswell Rudd and The Jazz Composer's Orchestra
Numatik Swing Band
1973
Stevie Wonder
Milestones - Talking Book / Music Of My Mind
1973, ,
, Soul/Funk
James Taylor
One Man Dog
1972, ,
, Soft Rock/Folk Rock
Stevie Wonder
Music Of My Mind
1972
Steve Elson
Smoke and Mirrors
CD, Album, Lips & Fingers Music, ,
, Cool Jazz/Avant-garde Jazz/Modal/Contemporary Jazz/Soul-Jazz
Hora Decima Brass Ensemble, David Chamberlain (6), Joseph Alessi, James Markey
Hora Decima Brass Ensemble
CD, Summit Records (3),
Duke Ellington And His Orchestra
Live, Marni Hall, Brussels - 1973
DVD, Mono, NTSC, EuroArts
Mercury Rev
Back To Mine
2006, 
,
, Abstract/Downtempo/Experimental
Various
Red Hot + Indigo
2001, ,
, Soul-Jazz/Pop Rap/Contemporary Jazz/Cool Jazz
Various
Earth: The Creative Planet
1998, CD, Comp, Smplr, Ellipsis Arts
Various
Columbia Audio Buyways 803/804/'92
1992, Cass, Promo, Smplr, Columbia, Columbia,
Various
Columbia Audio Buyways 903/904/'92
1992, Cass, Promo, Smplr, Columbia, Columbia
Duke Ellington
Last Trip to Paris
2013, CDr, Enh, Unofficial, Squatty Roo Records
John Legend
Once Again
2006
Lou Reed
The Raven
2003, 
,
, Alternative Rock/Avantgarde/Experimental/Art Rock
Sam Rivers' Rivbea All-star Orchestra
Inspiration
2000
Phyllis Hyman
Prime Of My Life
1991
Elliott Sharp
Nots
Bruce Springsteen
We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions
Various
Rogue's Gallery (Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, & Chanteys)
Gigi
Gigi
CD, ,
, Fusion/Drum n Bass/Reggae/Dub/Dark Jazz/African
Stevie Wonder
Music Of My Mind