RELEASES
Releases
Records where JT is the artist — not a hired session player.
FEATURED
Not Other Stuff
JT Bates, 2021. 37d03d Records
Solo work, with ambient pieces released on the label founded by Aaron Dessner and Justin Vernon.
Not Other Stuff
Open Relationships
JT Bates, 2015. Totally Gross National Product
An album built almost entirely from drum sounds.
Open Relationships
You The Brave: Live at Icehouse
Medeski / Clouser / Bates, 2018. Ropeadope Sur
Live collaborative recording.
You The Brave: Live at Icehouse
Is / Was
Pieta Brown & JT Bates, 2021. Righteous Babe Records
A song built from long-distance guitar fragments and half-remembered melodies, written and recorded apart during the pandemic.
Is / Was
Sunday
Pieta Brown & JT Bates, 2021. Righteous Babe Records
Built from layered guitar and ambient fragments, with horn arrangements by CJ Camerieri (CARM).
Sunday
In This World / Thing or 2
Pieta Brown & JT Bates, 2023. Righteous Babe Records
A double single built from Pieta's own guitar-and-lyric sketches, reshaped into new sonic territory.
In This World / Thing or 2
Flowerchild
Todd Clouser, John Medeski, JT Bates, 2025
A suite exploring Todd Clouser's experience as an LGBT composer in jazz/creative music, recorded at the Terrarium in Minneapolis.
Flowerchild
Live at First Ave
Real Bulls (Dave King & JT Bates), 2020
An open drum duet recorded live at First Avenue in Minneapolis during a Trampled by Turtles run.
Live at First Ave
