• 1976: James Spaulding Plays the Legacy of Duke Ellington (Storyville)
• 1988: Gotstabe a Better Way! (Muse)
• 1988: Brilliant Corners (Muse)
• 1991: Songs of Courage (Muse)
• 1993: Blues Nexus (Muse)
• 1997: The Smile of the Snake (HighNote)
• 1999: Escapade (HighNote)
• 2001: Blues Up & Over (Speetones)
• 2005: Round to It Vol. 2 (Speetones)
• 2006: Down With It (Marge)^[4]​

Con Luis Armstrong

• Louis Armstrong and His Friends (Flying Dutchman/Amsterdam, 1970)

Con Billy Bang

• Vietnam: Reflections (Justin Time, 2005)

Con Kenny Barrón

• Lucifer (Muse, 1975)

Con Art Blakey

• Golden Boy (Colpix, 1964)

Con Richard Davis

• Harvest (Muse, 1977 [1979])

Con Ricky Ford

• Loxodonta Africana (New World, 1977)
• Shorter Ideas (Muse, 1984)
• Looking Ahead (Muse, 1986)
• Saxotic Stomp (Muse, 1987)

Con Grant Green

• Solid (Blue Note, 1964)

Con Freddie Hubbard

• Hub-Tones (Blue Note, 1962)
• Breaking Point! (Blue Note, 1964)
• Blue Spirits (Blue Note, 1964)
• The Night of the Cookers (Blue Note, 1965)
• Backlash (Atlantic, 1967)
• High Blues Pressure (Atlantic, 1967)
• The Black Angel (Atlantic, 1969)

Con Bobby Hutcherson

• Components (Blue Note, 1965)
• Patterns (Blue Note, 1968)
• Ambos Mundos (Landmark, 1989)

Con Hank Mobley

• A Slice of the Top (Blue Note)
• Third Season (Blue Note)

Con Lee Morgan

• Standards (1967) (Blue Note)

Con David Murray

• Hope Scope (Black Saint, 1987)
• David Murray Big Band (DIW/Columbia, 1991)
• Picasso (1993)
• Dark Star: The Music of the Grateful Dead (1996)
• Octet Plays Trane (1999)

Con William Parker

• Wood Flute Songs (AUM Fidelity, 2013)

Con Duke Pearson

• Wahoo! (Blue Note 1964)
• Honeybuns (Atlantic 1965)
• Prairie Dog (Atlantic 1966)
• Sweet Honey Bee (Blue Note 1966)
• The right touch (Blue Note 1967)

Con Sam Rivers

• Dimensions & Extensions (1967)

Con Max Roach

• Drums Unlimited (Atlantic, 1965)

Con Pharoah Sanders

• Karma (1969)

Con Woody Shaw

• Woody III (Columbia, 1979)
• For Sure! (Columbia, 1979)

Con Wayne Shorter

• The Soothsayer (Blue Note 1965)
• The All Seeing Eye (Blue Note 1965)
• Schizophrenia (Blue Note 1967)

Con Horacio Silver

• The Jody Grind (Blue Note 1966)

Con Sun Ra

• Visits Planet Earth (1957–1958)
• The Nubians of Plutonia (1958)
• Jazz in Silhouette (1959)
• Sound Sun Pleasure!! (1959)
• Somewhere Else (Rounder, 1988–89)
• Purple Night (A&M, 1990)

Con León Thomas

• Spirits Known and Unknown (Flying Dutchman, 1969)
• The Leon Thomas Album (Flying Dutchman, 1970)

Con Charles Tolliver

• The New Wave in Jazz (Impulse!, 1965)
• Impact (Strata-East, 1975)

Con Stanley Turrentine

• The Return of the Prodigal Son (1967)
• Rough n'Tumble (Blue Note 1966)
• The Spoiler (Blue Note 1967)

Con McCoy Tyner

• Tender Moments (Blue Note, 1968)

Con Tyrone Washington

• Natural Essence (Blue Note 1967)

Con Larry Young

• Of Love and Peace (Blue Note 1966)

Con Kamal Abdul-Alim

• Dance (1983)

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Colin Larkin, ed. (1992). The Guinness Who's Who of Jazz (First edición). Guinness Publishing. pp. 373/4. ISBN 0-85112-580-8. 
2. ↑ Jazz, All About. «James Spaulding: '60s Sideman Extraordinaire». All About Jazz (en inglés). Consultado el 8 de septiembre de 2019. 
3. ↑ Yanow, Scott. «James Spaulding | Biography & History | AllMusic». AllMusic. Consultado el 18 de diciembre de 2016. 
4. ↑ «James Spaulding Songs, Albums, Reviews, Bio & More». AllMusic (en inglés). Consultado el 16 de enero de 2024. 

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