 He was inducted into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame in 1993.His grandson, Albert Johnson (aka Prodigy), was a member of the hip-hop duo Mobb Deep.With Cannonball Adderley
WIth Count Basie
With Ruth Brown 
With Benny Carter
With Roy Eldridge
With Duke Ellington and Count Basie
With Gil Evans
With Dizzy Gillespie
With Coleman Hawkins
With Earl Hines
With Claude Hopkins
With Etta Jones
With Quincy Jones
With Jimmy McGriff
With Carmen McRae
With Bud Powell
With Carrie Smith
With Jimmy Smith
With Sonny Stitt
With Clark Terry
With Ben Webster
With Randy Weston

With Jimmy Witherspoon