Don Cherry

Som leder

• 1961: The Avant-Garde (med John Coltrane)
• 1965: Complete Communion (Blue Note)
• 1966: Symphony for Improvisers (Blue Note)
• 1966: Where is Brooklyn? (Blue Note)
• 1966: Live at Cafe Montmartre ESP-disk , med Gato Barbieri, Bo Stief
• 1968: Eternal Rhythm, med Sonny Sharrock, Karl Berger
• 1969: Mu, duet med Ed Blackwell
• 1971: Orient trio recordings, live in France, med Han Bennink
• 1971: Blue Lake live trio, med Johnny Dyani og Okay Temiz
• 1972: Organic Music Society (Caprice)
• 1973: Relativity Suite – Jazz Composer's Orchestra
• 1975: Brown Rice A&M Records med Billy Higgins og Charlie Haden
• 1976: Hear and Now – jazz-funk fusion outing med guitarist Stan Samole.
• 1982: El Corazon ECM Records med Ed Blackwell
• 1985: Home Boy reggae/rap songs, optaget i Paris med lokale musiker.
• 1988: Multikulti A&M Records, featuring Peter Apfelbaum's Hieroglyphics Ensemble on 3 tracks.
• 1988: Art Deco A&M Records med James Clay og Billy Higgins
• 1993: Dona Nostra ECM Records
• 2002: Live at Bracknell Jazz Festival 1986 BBC Nu quintet med Carlos Ward, Mark Helias, Ed Blackwell og Nana Vasconcelos.
• 2002: Blue Lake

Som sidemand

Med Ornette Coleman

• Something Else!!!! (1958)
• The Art of the Improvisers (1959)
• Tomorrow Is the Question! (1959)
• The Shape of Jazz to Come (1959)
• Change of the Century (1960)
• This is our Music
• Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation (1960)
• Crisis (1969)
• Science Fiction (1971)
• In All Languages (1987)

Med New York Contemporary Five

• Consequences (Fontana, 1963)
• New York Contemporary Five Vol. 1 (Sonet, 1963)
• New York Contemporary Five Vol. 2 (Sonet, 1963)
• New York Contemporary Five & Bill Dixon 7-tette (Savoy, 1964)

Med Albert Ayler

• The Hilversum Session i Nederlandene (1964)
• Vibrations (1964) Freedom Records
• New York Eye and Ear Control (1965)

Med Charlie Haden

• Liberation Music Orchestra (1969)
• The Ballad of the Fallen (1986)
• The Montreal Tapes

Med Sun Ra

• Hiroshima (1983)
• Stars That Shine Darkly (1983)
• Purple Night (1990)
• Somewhere Else (1993)

Med Old and New Dreams

• Old and New Dreams Black Saint (1976)
• Old and New Dream ECM (1979)
• Playing ECM (1980)
• One for Blackwell Black Saint (1987)

Med Codona

• Codona, Volume 1 (1978)
• Codona, Volume 2 (1980)
• Codona, Volume 3 (1982)

Med andre

• Steve Lacy – Evidence (1962)
• Sonny Rollins – Our Man in Jazz (1962)
• George Russell – George Russell Sextet at Beethoven Hall (1965)
• Carla Bley – Escalator over the Hill (1971)
• Latif Khan – Music/Sangam (1978)
• Alejandro Jodorowsky og Ronald Frangipane – "The Holy Mountain Original Soundtrack" (1973)
• Johnny Dyani – Song For Biko (1978)
• Lou Reed – The Bells (1979)
• Rip Rig & Panic – I am Cold (1982)
• Bitter Funeral Beer Band – Live In Frankfurt (1982)
• Frank Lowe – Decision in Paradise (1984)
• Jai Uttal – Footprints (1990)
• Ed Blackwell Project – Vol. 2: "What It Be Like?" (one track)