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Chuck Berry‘s ‘After School Session’ is his debut album recorded in Chicago between May 21, 1955 and January 21, 1957, produced by Leonard & Phil Chess and released in May 1957 on Chess Records.
‘Chuck Berry Is on Top’ is his third studio album featuring his greatest hits (Johnny B. Goode, Maybelle, Roll Over Beethoven and so on) recorded from May 21, 1955 till 1959 and released in July 1959 by Chess.
Sam Rivers‘ ‘Contours’ is his second (fully avant-garde) album recorded on May 21, 1965 and released the same year by Blue Note.
‘Cannonball Adderley & the Poll-Winners’ is an album recorded on May 21, June 5, 1960, with Wes Montgomery, Ray Brown, Victor Feldman and Louis Hayes and released in 1961 by Riverside. .
Grant Green‘s ‘Matador’ is an album recorded on May 20 1964 with McCoy Tynerr, Bob Cranshaw and Elvin Jones and released in 1979 by Blue Note.
Horace Silver‘s ‘Doin’ the Thing’ is a live album recorded on May 19 & 20 1961 at the Village Gate in New York City and released the same year by Blue Note.
‘Miles Davis at Carnegie Hall’ is a live album subtitled ‘The Legendary Performances of May 19, 1961’ and released the next year by Columbia.
Wes Montgomery‘s ‘Bumpin” is his thirteenth album recorded on March 16, May 18, 19 & 20, 1965 and released the same year by Verve.
‘Ray Charles‘ is his debut album recorded between May 17, 1953 and November 27, 1956, released in 1957 (and re-released as ‘Hallelujah I Love Her So’ in 1962) by Atlantic .
‘The John Coltrane Quartet Plays’ is an album (full title ‘The John Coltrane Quartet Plays Chim Chim Cheree, Song of Praise, Nature Boy, Brazilia’) recorded on February 17-18, March 28 and May 17, 1965 and released the same year by Impulse!
McCoy Tynerr’s ‘Time for Tyner’ is his ninth album recorded on May 17, 1968 and released the same year by Blue Note.
‘Cattin’ with Coltrane and Quinichette’ by John Coltrane & Paul Quinichette is an album recorded on May 17, 1957 and released in 1959 by Prestige.
The Beach Boys‘ ‘Pet Sounds’ incl. ‘God Only Knows’ is their eleventh studio album released on May 16, 1966 by Capitol.
Bob Dylan‘s ‘Blonde on Blonde’ is his seventh studio album produced by Bob Johnston and released on May 16, 1966 by Columbia Records.
Miles Davis‘ ‘Sorcerer’ is the third of five albums recorded on May 16–24, 1967, with Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Tony Williams and Ron Carter and released on October 23, 1967 by Columbia .
Roy Haynes‘ ‘Out of the Afternoon’ is an album recorded on May 16, 1962, with Roland Kirk on tenor saxophone, Tommy Flanagan on piano and Henry Grimes on bass and released the same year by Impulse!
‘Jazz at Massey Hall’ by Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, Charles Mingus & Max Roach a.k.a. ‘The Quintet’ is a live album recorded on May 15, 1953 and released the same year In 1953 by Debut.
Howlin’ Wolf‘s ‘Moanin’ in the Moonlight’ is his debut (and compilation) album recorded from May 14, 1951 on and released in 1959 by Chess Records.