0 albums as leader and 8 as sideman (1979–2016), each listed chronologically.
1984 · The Silencer
Amandla (1989) carries Miles Davis's name, but Marcus Miller wrote most of it, produced it, and overdubbed keyboards and bass clarinet alongside his own bass. The man who had been the band's bassist a few years earlier was now designing the sound itself.
1991 · New Moon Shine
Randy Brecker played trumpet on Jaco Pastorius's landmark 1976 debut album, a cornerstone of jazz fusion. Fifteen years later, the same trumpeter turns up on a folk-tinged pop record — New Moon Shine (1991) — a world away from fusion's cutting edge.
1995 · Bang! Zoom
The chart-topping single 'Don't Worry, Be Happy' from Simple Pleasures (1988) hit No. 1 with zero instruments on it. Every bass note and percussion hit is Bobby McFerrin's own voice, multi-tracked — there was never a band.
Marcus Miller
Randy Brecker
Bobby McFerrin