2 albums as leader and 12 as sideman (1980–2023), each listed chronologically.
1995 · Dreyfus Jazz
Miles Davis
1989 · Warner Bros.
1995 · Tales and 1 more
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.
1989 · Amandla
Garrett joined Miles Davis
1999 · Simply Said
Chris Dave
— Rolling Stone: Superdrummer Chris Dave
sourced1981 · Silk
Stanley Clarke helped define electric-bass fusion on Return to Forever (1972), yet a decade later he turned up in a very different room: Echoes Of An Era (1982), a session built around a pop/R&B singer performing straight jazz standards.
1983 · Star People
When John Scofield joined Miles Davis's band in November 1982, it left two guitarists standing in the lineup. By Scofield's account, Miles liked putting two players of the same instrument together to make them compete — deliberately building the kind of redundancy most bandleaders take pains to avoid.
— Statement stmt-john-scofield-on-miles-davis
2005 · Native Lands
In 1969, Buster Williams played bass under a full orchestra on Herbie Hancock's The Prisoner. In 2005, the same bassist turned up on Native Lands, an album led by the drummer of a rock band — a jazz veteran quietly crossing into rock territory.
John Scofield
