Joshua Redman

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.

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).

Spirit Fiction

Joshua Redman · 2012

Spirit FictionSpirit FictionJoshua Redman · 2012 (2012) shows the maturity of the quartet Redman built through the 2000s. Eric HarlandEric Harlandエリック・ハーランド and Aaron ParksAaron Parksアーロン・パークス — both essential to different corners of contemporary jazz — converge in Redman's compositions.

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.

Wish

Joshua Redman · 1993

Michael Brecker

Michael Brecker · 1987

80/81

Pat Metheny · 1980

Don't Try This At Home

Michael Brecker · 1988

Michael Brecker spent more than a decade as one of the most in-demand session saxophonists in pop and jazz alike, yet didn't release an album under his own name until 1987, just before turning 40. The bassist he brought in for that belated debut was Charlie Haden.

Youngblood

Elvin Jones · 1992

Gumbo Nouveau

Nicholas Payton · 1996

Bitches

Nicholas Payton · 2011

Afro-Caribbean Mixtape

Nicholas Payton · 2017

Elvin Jones' 1992 album Youngblood was stocked almost entirely with then-unknown young players. One of them, 19-year-old trumpeter Nicholas Payton, would go on to lead his own Gumbo Nouveau and become one of the defining voices of New Orleans jazz — the veteran drummer's record turned out to be the start of someone else's career, not a victory lap.