James Cammack

For nearly thirty years, he played bass for Ahmad Jamal.[1] His debut solo album, Both Sides of the Coin, was released in 2012.[1] Before joining Jamal in 1983, he played in U.S. Army bands.[1] At the age of eighteen in 1974, he became a member of the West Point Army Band as a trumpeter, though he was learning bass.[1] He played for the Jazz Knights and on weekends performed at resorts in the Catskill mountains of New York.[1] For biggest influences on bass, he lists Israel Crosby, George Duvivier, and Milt Hinton.[1]

With Ahmad Jamal

• Rossiter Road (Atlantic, 1986)
• Live at the Montreal Jazz Festival 1985 (Atlantic, 1986)
• Crystal (Atlantic, 1987)
• Pittsburgh (Atlantic, 1989)
• Live in Paris 1992 (Birdology, 1993)
• The Essence Part One (Verve, 1995)
• Big Byrd: The Essence Part 2 (Verve, 1997)
• Nature: The Essence Part Three (Atlantic, 1998)
• Picture Perfect (Birdology, 2000)
• A L'Olympia (Dreyfus, 2001)
• In Search of Momentum (Dreyfus, 2003)
• After Fajr (Dreyfus, 2005)
• It's Magic (Dreyfus, 2008)
• A Quiet Time (Dreyfus, 2009)
• Marseille (Jazz Village, 2017)
• Ballades (Jazz Village, 2019)

With Malachi Thompson

• Freebop Now! (Delmark, 1998)
• Rising Daystar (Delmark, 1999)

With others

• Alexis Cole, Close Your Eyes (Venus, 2014)
• Larry Coryell, Montgomery (Patuxent, 2011)
• Mac Chrupcala, Bernard Purdie, One More for the Road (2013)
• Howard Johnson, Right Now! (Verve, 1997)
• Shahin Novrasli, Emanation (Jazz Village, 2017)
• Roberto Tarenzi, Jorge Rossy, Love and Other Simple Matters (Via Veneto, 2018)