Calvin Keys (born February 6, 1943) is an American jazz guitarist, known for the several albums he released for Black Jazz Records.[1]

Keys has performed and recorded with Ray Charles, Ahmad Jamal, John Handy, Bobby Hutcherson, Eddie Marshall, Sonny Stitt, Pharoah Sanders, Joe Henderson and Leon Williams.[2]

Discography

As leader

• Shawn-Neeq (Black Jazz, 1971)
• Proceed with Caution! (Black Jazz, 1974)
• Criss Cross (Ovation, 1976)
• Full Court Press (Olive Branch, 1985)
• Maria's First (Olive Branch, 1987)
• Standard Keys [live] (Lifeforce Jazz, 1992 [1997])
• Detours into Unconscious Rhythms (Wide Hive, 2000)
• Touch (Olive Branch, 2000) compilation
• An Evening With Calvin Keys [live] (Lifeforce Jazz, 2003) 2-CD
• Calvinesque (Silverado, 2005)
• Vertical Clearance (Wide Hive, 2006)
• Hand Made Portrait (Silverado, 2007)
• Electric Keys (Wide Hive, 2013)
• Close Enough For Love (Lifeforce Jazz, 2015)
• Simply Calvin (Lifeforce Jazz, 2022)
• Blue Keys (Wide Hive, 2022)

As sideman

With Ahmad Jamal

• Recorded Live at Oil Can Harry's (Catalyst, 1976)
• Steppin Out with a Dream (20th Century Fox, 1976)
• One (20th Century Fox, 1978)
• Night Song (Motown, 1980)
• Live in Paris 1996 (Birdology/Dreyfus, 1999)

With others

• Gene Russell, Talk to My Lady (Black Jazz, 1973)
• Billy Brooks, Windows of the Mind (Crossover, 1974)
• Doug Carn, Adam's Apple (Black Jazz, 1974)
• Doug Carn, Higher Ground (Ovation, 1976)
• Gene Russell, Listen Here (Ovation, 1976)
• James Newton Howard, Dying Young (Arista, 1991)
• Dissent, Dissent (Wide Hive, 1999)
• Azeem, Mayhem Mystics (Wide Hive, 2004)

References

External links

• Official site
• Calvin Keys discography at Jazzlists
• Calvin Keys Page at Wide Hive Records
• "Electric Keys" Page at Wide Hive Records
• "Vertical Clearance" Page at Wide Hive Records
• "Detours Into Unconscious Rythms(sic)" Page at Wide Hive Records