ESP-Disk discography

Last updated May 22, 2025

This is the discography of the American ESP-Disk record label, ordered by ID number of each musical album.

ESP 1000 series

1001 Ni Kantu En Esperanto
1002 Albert Ayler – Spiritual Unity
1003 Pharoah Sanders Quintet – Pharoah's First
1004 New York Art Quartet – New York Art Quartet
1005 Byron Allen Trio
1006 Ornette Coleman – Town Hall, 1962
1007 Giuseppi Logan - The Giuseppi Logan Quartet
1008 Paul Bley – Barrage
1009 Bob James – Explosions
1010 Albert Ayler – Bells
1011 Ran Blake – Ran Blake Plays Solo Piano
1012 Lowell Davidson – Lowell Davidson Trio
1013 Giuseppi Logan – More
1014 Sun Ra – The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume One
1015 Milford Graves – Percussion Ensemble
1016 Albert Ayler & Don Cherry – New York Eye and Ear Control
1017 Sun Ra – The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume Two
1018 The Fugs – The Fugs First Album
1019 Jean Erdman – The Coach with the Six Insides
1020 Albert Ayler – Spirits Rejoice
1021 Paul Bley – Closer
1022 Marion Brown – Marion Brown Quartet
1023 Frank Wright – Frank Wright Trio
1024 Burton Greene Quartet
1025 Patty Waters Sings
1026 Henry Grimes– The Call
1027 Timothy Leary – Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out
1028 The Fugs - The Fugs
1029 Charles Tyler - Charles Tyler Ensemble
1030 Sonny Simmons – Staying on the Watch
1031 Noah Howard – Noah Howard Quartet
1032 Sunny Murray – Sunny Murray
1033 (Various Artists) – ESP Sampler
1034 East Village Other
1035 Tuli Kupferberg – No Deposit, No Return
1036 Byard Lancaster – (NEVER ISSUED)
1037 The Godz – Contact High with the Godz
1038 The Fugs – Virgin Fugs
1039 Randy Burns – Of Love and War
1040 Marion Brown – Why Not?
1041 Karl Berger – From Now On
1042 Gunter Hampel – Music from Europe
1043 Sonny Simmons – Music from the Spheres
1044 Marzette Watts – Marzette Watts and Company
1045 Sun Ra – Nothing Is
1047 Godz – Godz 2
1048 Alan Sondheim – Ritual-All-7-70
1049 Gato Barbieri – In Search of the Mystery
1050 William S. Burroughs – Call Me Burroughs
1051 (Various Artists) – ESP Sampler
1052 James Zitro – West Coast Music
1053 Frank Wright – Your Prayer
1054 Pearls Before Swine. – One Nation Underground
1055 Patty Waters – College Tour
1056 Movement Soul – Live Recording of Songs and...
1057 Peter Lemer – Local Colour
1058 Sean Gagnier – (never issued)
1059 Charles Tyler – Eastern Man Alone
1060 Steve Lacy – The Forest and the Zoo
1061 Jerry Moore – Ballad of Birmingham (aka Life Is A Constant Journey Home)
1062 Jacques Coursil – Unit (never issued)
1063 New York Electric String Ensemble
1064 Noah Howard – At Judson Hall
1065 Slavonic Cappella Ensemble - Music From The Orthodox Liturgy
1066 Bud Powell – Blue Note Cafe Paris 1961
1067 / ORO 5 HAR-YOU Percussion Group – Sounds of the Ghetto Youth
1068 Holy Modal Rounders – Indian War Whoop
1069 / ORO 1 Bruce MacKay – Midnight Minstrel
1070 / ORO-4 All that the name implies – Side 1
1071 Paul Bley – [never issued double album]
1072 Tony Snell – Fungus and Englishmen Abroad
1073 Norman Howard – Burn, Baby, Burn
1074 Burton Greene Trio - On Tour
1075 Pearls Before Swine – Balaklava
1076 Nedly Elstak – The Machine
1077 The Godz – Third Testament
1078 Seventh Sons – Four AM At Frank's (aka Raga )
1080 Karel Velebný – SHQ
1081 (Various Artists) – An Evening At Home With ESP
1082 Alan Sondheim – T'Other Little Tune
1083 Free Music Quintet – Free Music 1 & 2
1085 Lou Killen – Sea Chanteys (aka Folk Songs)
1089 Randy Burns – Evening Of The Magician
1091 Alan Silva – Skillfulness
1092 Ed Askew – Ask The Unicorn
1095 Levitts – We Are The Levitts
1097 / ORO 6 Todd Kelley – Folksinger
1098 MIJ – Yodeling Astrologer
1099 Erica Pomerance – You Used To Think (aka Surreal)
1111 (Various Artists) – Boots 'n Roots

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ESP 2000 series

2000 Octopus – Rock-New Music Fusion
2001 Cromagnon – Elliot/Grasmere Connecticut Tribe (aka Cave Rock/Orgasm)
2002 Jayne County – Goddess Of Wet Dreams
2003 Charles Manson and the Family Sing 13 Songs - Lie: The Love and Terror Cult
2004 Sweet Pie – Pleasure Pudding: Livid at Fat City
2004 Sweet Pie – Honky Tonk Jive
2005 Barry Titus – Do Wappa Do
2006 Emerson's Old Timey Custard-Suckin' Band – Emerson's Old Timey Custard-Suckin' Band
2007 Randy Burns – Songs For An Uncertain Lady
2008 Joel Tobias – God Is Watching America
2009 Barry Titus – 42nd Street
2010 Woodstock Workband – Armed And Dangerous
2012 Woodstock Band – Sword In The Hand
2013 Jimi Lalumia & The Psychotic Frogs – Live At Max's Kansas City 1981
2015 Don Moore – In The Groove
2016 Don Moore – Party Goin' On In Woodstock
2017 Godz - Godzundheit
2018 The Fugs – Fugs 4, Rounders Score
2020 Les Visible – Too Old To Rock And Roll
2021 Les Visible – Jews From Outer Space
2022 (Various Artists) – ESP-disk Guide To Funky
2044 (Various Artists) – Woodstock: Moods And Moments
2051 (Various Artists) – ESP Sampler (promotional only)

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ESP 3000 series

3000 Charlie Parker – Live Performances
3001 Charlie Parker – Broadcast Performances, Vol. 2
3002 Billie Holiday – Broadcast Performances, Vol. 1
3003 Billie Holiday – Broadcast Performances, Vol. 2
3004 Tony Snell – Medieval & Latter Day Lays
3005 Billie Holiday – Radio & TV Broadcasts (1953-1956)
3006 Billie Holiday – Broadcast Performances, Vol. 4
3007 Revolutionary Ensemble – Vietnam
3009 Tiger Tiger – Sun Country
3010 Captain Matchbox-Wow – Smoke Dreams
3011 Marc Black – Big Dong Dharma
3012 Rolf Kempf – Daydreamer
3013 Frank Lowe – Black Beings
3014 Peter Stampfel & Luke Faust – Wendigo Dwain Story
3015 Nadolski – New Music From Poland 1 [NEVER ISSUED]
3016 Niemen - Enigmatic – New Music From Poland 2
3017 Lester Young – Newly Discovered Performances 1
3018 Sea Ensemble – We Move Together
3019 Paul Thornton, Les Fradkin & Unger & The Big Band – Pass On This Side
3019-2 The Godz – Godz Bless California
3020 Bill Horwitz – Lies, Lies, Lies
3021 Bud Powell – Winter Broadcasts 1953
3022 Bud Powell – Spring Broadcasts 1953
3023 Bud Powell – Summer Broadcasts 1953
3023? – New Music From Japan
3024 Bud Powell – Autumn Broadcasts 1953
3025 Anton Bruhin – New Music From Switzerland
3026 Ronnie Boykins – The Will Come, Is Now
3028 Michael Gregory Jackson – Clarity
3029 Sorgen/Rust/Windbiel Trio – Outlet
3030 Albert Ayler – Prophecy
3031 Albert Ayler – Live At Slug's Saloon Vol. 1
3032 Albert Ayler – Live At Slug's Saloon Vol. 2
3033 Sun Ra – Concert For The Comet Kohoutek

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ESP 4000 series

4001 Albert Ayler - Live on the Riviera
4002 Sun Ra - Heliocentric Worlds Vol. 3
4003 Pearls Before Swine - The Complete ESP-Disk' Recordings
4006 Albert Ayler - Bells/Prophecy
4007 Frank Wright - The Complete ESP-Disk Recordings
4008 Pharaoh Sanders - Pharaoh Sanders Quintet
4025 Albert Ayler - Slug's Saloon
4026 Sun Ra - Heliocentric Worlds vol. 1-2
4028 Frank Wright - Unity
4029 Yma Sumac – Recital - Live in Bucharest, Romania 1961
4030 New Ghost - Live Upstairs at Nick's
4031 Tammen/Harth/Dahlgren/Rosen
4032 Don Cherry – Live at Cafe Montmartre 1966
4033 Norman Howard/Joe Phillips - Burn Baby Burn
4034 Various Artists - Movement Soul Volume Two
4035 Albert Ayler - The Hilversum Session
4036 Bud Powell - Live at the Blue Note Cafe, Paris 1961
4037 Sunny Murray – Sunny Murray
4038 Burton Greene - Bloom in the Commune
4040 Lester Young - Live At Birdland
4041 Lindha Kallerdahl - Gold
4042 Alan Roth - Inside Out In The Open
4043 Don Cherry – Live at Cafe Montmartre 1966, Vol Two
4044 Yuganaut - This Musicship
4045 The Holy Modal Rounders - Live in 65
4046 Totem> - Solar Forge
4047 Yximalloo - Unpop
4048 Speed, Cheek, & Leibovici - Jugendstil
4049 Barnacled - Charles
4050 Charlie Parker – Bird in Time 1940-1947
4051 Don Cherry - Live At Café Montmartre, Vol Three
4052 Flow Trio - Rejuvenation
4053 The Naked Future - Gigantomachia
4054 Sun Ra - Featuring Pharoah Sanders & Black Harold
4055 Talibam! - Boogie in the Breeze Blocks
4056 Joe Morris (guitarist) - Colorfield
4057 TSIGOTI - Private Poverty Speaks to the People of the Party
4058 Paul Dunmall & Chris Corsano - Identical Sunsets
4059 Konitz, Cheek, Furic Leibovici - Jugendstil II
4060 Sun Ra - College Tour Volume One: The Complete Nothing Is...
4061 Eli Keszler - Oxtirn
4062 Sun Ra - Heliocentric Worlds 1-3
4063 Joe Morris - Camera
4065 Talibam! - Cosmoplitude 7"
4066 Frank Lowe - The Loweski
4068 Frank Wright - Blues for Albert Ayler
4069 Pharoah Sanders - In the Beginning: 1963-64
4071 Oscar Brown Jr. & Maggie Brown - We're Live
4072 Various Artists - The Albert Ayler Story
4073 Bud Powell - Birdland 1953
4075 Last Exit - Iron Path
4076 Albert Ayler - Bells/Prophecy
4111 Various Artists - ESP New Artist Sampler 2008

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ESP 5000 series

5001 Various Artists - Fire Music (sampler)
5002 Arborea (band) – Fortress of the Sun
5003 Tiger Hatchery – Sun Worship
5004 Alan Sondheim – Cutting Board
5005 Extremely Serious Business - Headwall
5006 John D. Thomas – Serious Business
5007 The Uppercut: Matthew Shipp Mat Walerian Duo - Live at Okuden
5008 Defunkt – Live at Channel Zero
5009 Jungle: Mat Walerian/Matthew Shipp/Hamid Drake – Live at Okuden
5010 Matt Lavelle/Reggie Sylvester - Retrograde
5011 Toxic: Mat Walerian/Matthew Shipp/William Parker – This Is Beautiful Because We Are Beautiful People
5012 Thollem/Mad King Edmund - Happening
5013 Tiger Hatchery - Breathing in the Walls
5014 Buck Curran – Immortal Light
5015 Talibam!/Matt Nelson/Ron Stabinsky - HARD VIBE
5016 Talibam! - Endgame of the Anthropocene
5017 The Delegation - Evergreen (Canceled World)
5018 Matthew Shipp Quartet - Sonic Fiction
5019 Stephen Dydo/Alan Sondheim - Dragon and Phoenix
5020 Thollem/DuRoche/Stjames Trio - Live in Our Time
5021 Amina Baraka & The Red Microphone - s/t
5022 Matthew Shipp - Zero
5023 Megumi Yonezawa/Masa Kamaguchi/Ken Kobayashi - Boundary
5024 Robbie Basho - Live in Forli, Italy 1982
5025 Fay Victor's SoundNoiseFUNK - Wet Robots
5026 Whit Dickey - Morph
5027 Gabriel Zucker - Weighting
5028 Buck Curran - Morning Haikus, Afternoon Ragas
5029 Matthew Shipp Trio - Signature
5030 Mars Williams - Mars Williams Presents An Ayler Xmas vol. 2
5031 Peter Lemer Quintet - Son of Local Colour
5032 Painted Faces - Tales from the Skinny Apartment
5033 various artists - New Improvised Music from Buenos Aires
5034 Allen Lowe - An Avant-Garde of Our Own: Disconnected Words 1980-2018
5035 Radical Empathy Trio (Thollem McDonas, Nels Cline, Michael Wimberly) - Reality and Other Imaginary Places
5036 Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp/William Parker/Bobby Kapp - Ineffable Joy
5037 Mat Walerian/Matthew Shipp/William Parker/Hamid Drake - Every Dog Has Its Day But It Doesn't Matter Because Fat Cat Is Getting Fatter
5038 Thollem McDonas/William Parker/Nels Cline - Gowanus Sessions II
5039 Matthew Shipp Trio - The Unidentifiable
5040 Flow Trio with Joe McPhee - Winter Garden
5042 Fay Victor's SoundNoiseFUNK - We've Had Enough
5048 ATTITUDE! - Pause and Effect
5049 Silke Eberhard & Nikolaus Neuser with Talibam! - This Week Is in Two Weeks
5050 Owl Xounds Exploding Galaxy (Adam Kriney, Gene Janas, Shayna Dulberger, Mario Rechtern) - The Coalescence
5051 Raymond Byron (a.k.a. Raymond Raposa) - Bond Wire Cur
5052 Larry Ochs-Donald Robinson - A Civil Right
5053 Michael Bisio/Kirk Knuffke/Fred Lonberg-Holm - The Art Spirit
5054 GULFH of Berlin - GULFH of Berlin
5055 OPTO S - Human Indictive/Live
5056 Buck Curran - No Love Is Sorrow
5057 Alan Sondheim & Azure Carter - Plaguesong
5058 Painted Faces - Normal Street
5059 Matthew Shipp Trio - World Construct
5060 Bridge of Flowers - A Soft Day’s Night
5061 Rova Saxophone Quartet - The Circumference of Reason
5064 East Axis - Cool With That
5065 Duck Baker - Confabulations
5066 The Red Microphone - And I Became of the Dark...
5067 William Parker—Patricia Nicholson - No Joke!
5068 Eunhye Jeong - NOLDA
5069 Gabriel Zucker/The Delegation - Leftover Beats from the Edges of Time
5070 Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp - Fruition
5072 Jones Jones - Just Justice
5073 WeFreeStrings - Love in the Form of Sacred Outrage
5074 Michael Marcus- Abstractions in Lime Caverns
5076 Alan Sondheim - Galut: Ballads of Wadi-Sabi
5078 The Red Microphone - A Bleeding in Black Leather
5080 Allen Lowe & the Constant Sorrow Orchestra - In the Dark
5081 Bára Gísladóttir - SILVA
5082 Allen Lowe & the Constant Sorrow Orchestra - America: The Rough Cut

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References

↑ "ESP-Disk' Catalog: 1000 series – Album Index". jazzdisco.org. Retrieved March 14, 2020.
↑ "ESP-Disk' Catalog: 2000 Series – Album Index". jazzdisco.org. Retrieved March 14, 2020.
↑ "ESP-Disk' Catalog: 3000 Series – Album Index". jazzdisco.org. Retrieved March 14, 2020.
↑ "ESP-Disk' Catalog: 4000 Series – Album Index". jazzdisco.org. Retrieved March 14, 2020.
↑ http://www.espdisk.com/catalogue/5000list.html

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[1] "ESP-Disk' Catalog: 1000 series – Album Index". jazzdisco.org. Retrieved March 14, 2020.

[2] "ESP-Disk' Catalog: 2000 Series – Album Index". jazzdisco.org. Retrieved March 14, 2020.

[3] "ESP-Disk' Catalog: 3000 Series – Album Index". jazzdisco.org. Retrieved March 14, 2020.

[4] "ESP-Disk' Catalog: 4000 Series – Album Index". jazzdisco.org. Retrieved March 14, 2020.

[5] ttp://www.espdisk.com/catalogue/5000list.html

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