Jeff Ballard

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.

River: The Joni Letters

Herbie Hancock · 2007

Karibu

Lionel Loueke · 2008

Gaïa

Lionel Loueke · 2015

Fairgrounds

Jeff Ballard · 2016

Lionel Loueke, a guitarist from Benin who was still relatively unknown, played on Herbie Hancock's River: The Joni Letters (2007). The album won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 2008, a rare triumph for a jazz record over mainstream pop and rock competition.

MoodSwing

Joshua Redman · 1994

Deep Song

Kurt Rosenwinkel · 2005

The Art of the Trio, Vol. 3

Brad Mehldau · 1998

Day Is Done

Brad Mehldau · 2005

In 1994, a 24-year-old and still largely unknown Brad Mehldau appeared on Joshua Redman's MoodSwing — two years before his own Art of the Trio series began the career that made him one of the most acclaimed pianists in jazz.

Deep Song

Kurt Rosenwinkel · 2005

MehldauBrad Mehldauブラッド・メルドー joined the Deep SongDeep SongKurt Rosenwinkel · 2005 sessions right after a European tour. His intimate improvisational dialogue with Rosenwinkel forms the album's core.

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).