1976 · Jaco Pastorius
September 1978, WDR's Rockpalast. The complete Weather Report concert during Jaco Pastorius
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Hubert Laws
0 albums as leader and 11 as sideman (1968–2007), each listed chronologically.
As Sideman · 11
Notes on these albums · 5
Jaco Pastorius
Joe Zawinul
Wayne Shorter1969 · The Prisoner
The Sidewinder (1964) is a Lee Morgan hard-bop date, yet its title track became an unexpected commercial hit on jukeboxes and the charts — a straight-ahead session that boosted Blue Note enough that imitation openers followed for years. Joe Henderson, known as a cerebral tenor, is at the center of it.
Joe Henderson1973 · Blues Farm
Joe Henderson is remembered as a master tenor and composer. Yet bassist Ron Carter says he never once turned up with enough material — always two songs, ten minutes short — and would ask the band to compose on the spot: 'We're making an LP here, come on, Joe.'
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Ron Carter1981 · Word of Mouth
On Pat Metheny's ECM date 80/81 (1980), two tenors stood side by side: Michael Brecker, by then a fusion and pop studio staple, and Dewey Redman, straight out of the free-jazz lineage. Pairing the studio ace with the avant-garde tenor was the whole point of the record.
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Michael Brecker
Jack DeJohnette1981 · Morning Sun
Freddie Hubbard's 1970 CTI track 'Red Clay' was written to order after a producer told him to 'write a hit.' Hubbard recalled that his fellow jazz musicians sneered at him for writing something so corny — yet the commissioned tune became the record he's best remembered for.
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Freddie Hubbard