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Nabil Totah can be heard on more than twenty recordings, including those of Sims and Cohn, Mann, Hackett, Krupa and Bobby Scott.
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Totah's credentials
are well known to jazz fans.
Excerpts from: “The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz
and Leonard Feather's Jazz Encyclopedia
In the early days of his long and rewarding career Nabil Totah appeared at:
- The original “Birdland” with Johnny Smith, Harry Edison, Stan Getz and Bobby Scott
- “The Composer” with Cy Coleman and George Wallington.
He was also seen regularly at the “Half Note”, went on tour with Al Cohn and Zoot Sims, and had a twenty-year alliance with the “Gene Krupa Quartet.”
Other leading artists "Nobby" has worked with include:
- Hampton Hawes (1953-4)
- Toshiko Akiyoshi (1953-4)
- Charlie Parker (1954)
- Cy Coleman (1955-7)
- Eddie Costa (1957)
- Herbie Mann (1958-61)
- Bobby Hackett (c1960)
- Sol Yaged (1961)
- The Teddy Wilson Trio (1960-64)
- The star-studded band of Slide Hampton
- Benny Goodman (1976)
- Max Kaminsky (1976)
- Lee Konitz (1977)
- Hazel Scott (1978-80)
- Jim Hall
- Mike Longo
- Pepper Adams
- Tommy Flanagan
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