Most recordings you own by a single artist, group, or composer


I went and purchased two more John Coltrane CD’s, "Blue Train" and "Traneing In", in spite of, relative to other artists, having way too many of his albums already. I do love his music and just now counted having forty-eight of his albums, not even including the ones he recorded with Miles Davis.

Is there anyone else out there at least equally nutty, or has more recordings by any single artist, band or composer? If so, who do you like, and how many of their albums have you collected and play? Miles Davis at thirty-three records and CD’s, comes in a not too distant second in my collection.

Hopefully this topic hasn’t been broached before here.

Mike
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Chopin
Mozart
Bach
Haydn
Beethoven
Haydn
Vivaldi
Evans
Jarrett
Mehldau
Garbarek...

...run out of room here...running out of space @ home...:(
Ron Carter has appeared on 2,221 recording sessions.  For jazz enthusiasts, you could have more recordings with Ron on them than any other musician in your collection and not even realize it ;-)
If we’re counting single artists appearing with other groups, Ray Brown would be up there in my collection. Other than that, the Dave Brubeck section is starting to crowd out the Chet Baker and Cannonball Adderley section.

In the classical closet, Bach seems to be overtaking Beethoven.

Frank
Schubert, of all the Bach recordings you have which are your favorites, and which do you play most.? That is an impressive collection by anyone’s measure. Are you still finding more to purchase or have you exhausted his canon.

Jim204, about how many Bach recordings do you estimate you have?

Edgewear, that’s an impressive Zappa collection. Any favorite recordings where he plays, rather than dinks around. One of the best concerts I ever went to, at school in the early seventies, consisted of Zappa playing a scintillating solo on "Montana". Rest of the concert was mostly him yanking our chain, but that solo was so original to be completely unforgettable.

Three_easy_payments, you’re right, Ron Carter is on a lot of recordings. I’d not noticed that before.

All the rest of you fine folks, about how many of the artists you mentioned albums have you collected . That’s what I’d really like to know. I can’t imagine anyone surpassing Schuberts Bach collection though. I’m willing to offer a cherished "No prize", earned on another site, to anyone who eclipses that total.

Mike
The only artist I have large number of CDs is Beethoven who I have several sets of symphonies including Furtwangler.