Recordings as a Composer/Leader
- Heaven and Hell (OmniTone 12208)
- Second Communion (OmniTone 12102, 2001)
- Jazz French Horn (Soul Note 121176) 1986, reissue 2000
- Swiss Duos (Unit 4128, 2000)
- Swimming (OmniTone 11903), 1999
- The Window Up Above (New World 80552), 1998
- Martian Heartache (Soul Note 121276), 1997 [read more]
- The Mystery of Compassion (Soul Note 121217), 1993
- Long Night Big Day (New World/Countercurrents 80410), 1991
- Covert Action (New Note 1009), 1988
- Jazz French Horn (New Note 1004), 1986 [see above]
- Motion/Stillness (Soul Note 121067), 1983
- Tom Varner Quartet (Soul Note 121017), 1981
Selected discography as a sideman
(Alphabetically by leader)
- Kitty Brazelton & DaDaDah: Rise Up! (Accurate/Distortion 1003)
- Consuelo Candelaria/Jon Hazilla Quintet: Last Sunday Morning (Accurate 5025)
- Steve Cohn: Bridge over the X-Stream (Leo 288)
- Miles Davis and Quincy Jones: Live at Montreux (Warner Bros 45221)
- East Down Septet: Out of Gridlock (Hep Jazz 2063)
- East Down Septet: Channel Surfing (Hep Jazz 2069)
- Lou Grassi/Tom Varner/Ron Horton/Tomas Ulrich: Neo Neo (CIMP 210)
- George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band: First Prize (Enja 6004)
- George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band: Theatre (ECM 1265)
- Ed Jackson: Wake Up Call (New World Countercurrents 80451)
- Hans Kennel: Habarigani Brass (Hat Art 6185)
- Neal Kirkwood Octet (Timescraper Records 9612)
- Franz Koglmann: Cantos I-IV (Hat Art 6123)
- Franz Koglmann: Make Believe (between the lines 001)
- Steve Lacy: Vespers (Soul Note 121260)
- Steuart Liebig, Pomegranate (Cryptogramophone 109), 2001
- Natalie Merchant: Ophelia (Elektra 62196)
- Paul Nash/Manhattan New Music Project: The Soul of Grace (Soul Note 121317)
- The New York Composers Orchestra: Works by Marty Ehrlich, Robin Holcomb, Wayne Horvitz and Doug Wieselman (New World 80397)
- Orange Then Blue: Hold the Elevator (GM 3040)
- Bobby Previte: Pushing the Envelope (Gramavision 79509)
- Bobby Previte: Bump the Renaissance (Sound Aspects 008)
- Rabih Abou-Khalil: The Cactus of Knowledge (Enja 9401), 2001
- Peter Schärli Special Sextet: Blues for the Beast (Enja 9103)
- Peter Schärli Special Sextet: Guilty (Enja 9219), 2001
- Roman Schwaller Nonet: The Original Tunes (JHM 3629), 2002
- Burkhard Stangl/Ned Rothenberg/Werner Dafeldecker/ Max Nagl/ Tom Varner: Qui.t, Comprovisations I-X: (Extraplatte 166)
- Ken Schaphorst, Over the Rainbow: The Music of Harold Arlen (Accurate 4204), 1996
- Ton-Art: Mal Vu, Mal Dit (Hat Art 6088)
- Vienna Art Orchestra: Artistry in Rhythm (TCB 01102), 2000
- Bobby Watson: Tailor Made (Columbia 53416)
- John Zorn: Film Works (Elektra Nonesuch 79270)
Composed sound track for the 1995 Paul Mones film Saints
and Sinners.
Also featured on the Columbia, Warner Bros., Gramavision, Enja, Hat Hut, ECM, Nonesuch/Elektra, Island, Sound Aspects, Extraplatte, Shimmy Disc, Creative Works, Windham Hill, Opus One, Unit Records, Planisphare, and Accurate labels.