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Discography

As leader

* ''Sugar Honey Iced Tea'' (2022) Tilley * ''347 Live!'' (2013) Tilley * ''Live +7'' (2007) Tilley * ''The Funk, The Whole Funk, and Nothin' But the Funk'' (2004) Tilley * ''Live Bootleg'' (2001) MP3.COM * ''Live at Bayou Blues'' (2001) MP3.COM * ''Smash, with

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'' (2000) Tilley * ''Urban Grooves'' (1997) Artifex Records * ''Urban Grooves EP'' (1997) Artifex Records * ''With Light Images'' (1993) Artifex Records

As sideman

* ''Keith Mason I Surrender All'' (2020) Independent * ''Christian "Big New York" de Mesones They Call me Big New York'' (2020) Independent * ''Christian "Big New York" de Mesones Latin Jive Redux'' (2017) Independent * ''Christian "Big New York" de Mesones Good Old Days'' (2016) Independent * ''Kenny Wright Experience Herbie Miles and Me'' (2010) Knee Deep Records * ''Tony Whitfield Pleasure Sensitive 2'' (2004) OASA Records * ''Tony Whitfield New York Hustle, with

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'' (2003) OASA Records * ''Eddie Anderson Good Friends'' (2003) Independent * ''Eddie Anderson Christmas Album'' (2002) Independent * ''Tony Whitfield Pleasure Sensitive 2'' (2000) OASA Records * ''Ski Johnson Ski Supreme'' (2000) Wide-A-Wake Records * ''Pete Marinovich Second Voice'' (1999) * ''Eddie Anderson Thick Funk'' (1999) Independent * ''Moose and the Bulletproof Blues Band Movin On' '' (1996) Blues Cancer Records * ''Ski Johnson in Your Eyes'' (1994) Wide-A-Wake Records * ''Ski Johnson Tell Me Something Good EP'' (1994) Wide-A-Wake Records * ''Ivan Smart Red Nights'' (1992) Smart-eye Productions

Compilations

* ''The Abduction of the Art of Noise'' (2004) Karvavena Records * ''Walking on Pennsylvania Avenue'' (2001) Open Source Musi

* ''MP3.COM 103 of the best songs you've never heard, vol. 4'' (2000) MP3.COM * ''The Best of Artifex Records'' (1997) Artifex Records * ''Artifex Records

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Jazz Sampler'' (1994) Artifex Records

References

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