Lenny White

Leonard White III (born December 19, 1949) is a three-time Grammy Award-winning American jazz fusion drummer, born in New York City, best known for being the drummer of Chick Corea's Return to Forever. A resident of Teaneck, New Jersey, White has been described as "one of the founding fathers of jazz fusion".

Discography

Credits partially adapted from AllMusic and Discogs.

As leader

• 1975: Venusian Summer (Nemperor)
• 1977: Big City (Nemperor)
• 1978: The Adventures of Astral Pirates (Elektra)
• 1978: Streamline (Elektra)
• 1979: Best of Friends (With Twennynine) (Elektra)
• 1980: Twennynine (With Lenny White) (Elektra)
• 1981: Just Like Dreamin' (With the Twennynine) (Elektra)
• 1983: Attitude (Wounded Bird)
• 1983: In Clinic (DCI)
• 1995: Present Tense (Hip Bop/Koch)
• 1996: Renderers of Spirit (Hip Bop Essence)
• 1999: Edge (Hip Bop Essence)
• 2002: Collection (Hip Bop)
• 2004: The Love Has Never Gone: Tribute to Earth, Wind & Fire (Trauma)
• 2008: Hancock Island (Chesky)
• 2010: Anomaly (Abstract Logix)

As sideman

With Azteca

• 1972: Azteca (Columbia)
• 1973: Pyramid of the Moon (Columbia)
• 2008: From The Ruins (Inakustic Gmbh)

With Gato Barbieri

• 1971: Fenix (Flying Dutchman)

With Ron Carter

• Stardust (Somethin' Else, 2001)

With Stanley Clarke

• 1973: Children of Forever (Polydor)
• 1975: Journey to Love (Nemperor)

With Al Di Meola:

• 1976: Land of the Midnight Sun (Columbia)
• 1977: Elegant Gypsy (Columbia)

With Return to Forever

• 1973: Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy (Polydor)
• 1974: Where Have I Known You Before (Polydor)
• 1975: No Mystery (Polydor)
• 1976: Romantic Warrior (Columbia)
• 2009: Returns (Eagle)
• 2009: Forever [as Corea, Clarke & White] (Concord)
• 2012: The Mothership Returns (Eagle)

With Larry Coryell & Victor Bailey

• 2005: Electric
• 2006: Traffic

With Chaka Khan, Freddie Hubbard, Joe Henderson, Chick Corea & Stanley Clarke

• 1982: Echoes of an Era (Elektra)
• 1982: Echoes of an Era 2 – The Concert (Elektra)

With others

• 1969 – Andrew Hill: Passing Ships (Blue Note) [not released until 2003]
• 1970 – Joe Henderson: If You're Not Part of the Solution, You're Part of the Problem (Milestone)
• 1970 – Freddie Hubbard: Red Clay (CTI)
• 1970 – Woody Shaw: Blackstone Legacy (Contemporary)
• 1970 – Miles Davis: Bitches Brew (Columbia)
• 1971 – Curtis Fuller: Crankin' (Mainstream)
• 1972 - Buddy Terry: Pure Dynamite (Mainstream)
• 1973 - Eddie Henderson: Realization (Capricorn)
• 1976 – Don Cherry: Hear & Now (Atlantic)
• 1976 – Jaco Pastorius: Jaco Pastorius (Epic/Legacy/Sony)
• 1986 – Eliane Elias: Illusions (Denon)
• 1990 – The Manhattan Project (Blue Note)
• 1990 – Michel Petrucciani: Music (Blue Note)
• 1993 - Bobby Hutcherson: Acoustic Masters II (Atlantic)
• 1994 – Marcus Miller, Michel Petrucciani, Bireli Lagrene & Kenny Garrett: Dreyfus Night in Paris (Dreyfus) [not released until 2003]
• 1995 – Urbanator: Urbanator (Hip Bop)
• 1997 – The Geri Allen Trio & The Jazzpar 1996 Nonet: Some Aspects of Water (Storyville)
• 1998 – Geri Allen: The Gathering (Verve, 1998)
• 1999 – Stanley Clarke, Karen Briggs, Rachel Z and Richie Kotzen Vertú (Sony)
• 2001 - Buster Williams Trio: Houdini (Sirocco)
• 2009 – The Stanley Clarke Trio: Jazz in the Garden (Heads Up)
• 2009 – The Buster Williams Trio: 65 Roses (Blueport)

• 2011 – Jamey Haddad, Lenny White, Mark Sherman: Explorations in Space and Time (Chesky)