Brian Blade

Brian Blade Fellowship

Brian Blade Fellowship · 1998

Brian BladeBrian Bladeブライアン・ブレイド Fellowship (1998) arrived just as Blade had established himself as one of the most sought-after sidemen in jazz. The band blended New Orleans gospel, folk, and free improvisation — redefining what a drummer's own group could be.

MoodSwing

Joshua Redman · 1994

MoodSwing (1994) captured these four in the middle of their separate ascents. MehldauBrad Mehldauブラッド・メルドー, McBrideChristian McBrideクリスチャン・マクブライド, and BladeBrian Bladeブライアン・ブレイド each went on to build defining careers of their own. In 2020 the same band reunited as RoundAgain.

Without a Net

Wayne Shorter · 2013

Pursuance: The Music of John Coltrane

Kenny Garrett · 1996

MoodSwing

Joshua Redman · 1994

Brian Blade Fellowship

Brian Blade Fellowship · 1998

Kenny Garrett's 1996 tribute record Pursuance has no pianist: the chords are carried by Pat Metheny's guitar, in a quartet of sax, guitar, bass and drums. The drum chair went to Brian Blade, then in his mid-twenties and still two years away from his own first album as a leader. By 2013 he was the drummer on Wayne Shorter's Without a Net.

The Next Step

Kurt Rosenwinkel · 2001

Mark Turner

Mark Turner · 1998

Turner and Kurt RosenwinkelKurt Rosenwinkelカート・ローゼンウィンケル met at Berklee and became central figures in the NYC post-bop scene of the late 1990s. Rosenwinkel's complex harmony and Turner's dry, oblique lines fed each other. They appeared on each other's albums repeatedly, co-authoring the contemporary jazz guitar and saxophone vocabulary.

Directions in Music

Herbie Hancock · 2002

Directions in Music (2001) was Hancock's tribute to Miles Davis and John Coltrane. Placing HargroveRoy Hargroveロイ・ハーグローブ — from the trumpet lineage — alongside Brecker, who had redefined the post-bop saxophone sound, was deliberate. Intergenerational transmission was the album's real subject.

Youngblood

Elvin Jones · 1992

MoodSwing

Joshua Redman · 1994

Momentum

Joshua Redman · 2005

Spirit Fiction

Joshua Redman · 2012

Joshua Redman was set to enter Yale Law School in 1991 when he won the Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition instead and abandoned law. The following year, before releasing anything under his own name, he turned up as an unknown sideman on Elvin Jones's Youngblood (1992).