4 albums as leader and 11 as sideman (1992–2017), each listed chronologically.
2011 · BMF
2017 · Paytone Records
1996 · Gumbo Nouveau and 2 more
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.
1992 · Youngblood
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).
2012 · Unanimous
Christian McBride says he deliberately built his New Jawn band as the 180-degree opposite of his earlier trio with pianist Christian Sands and drummer Ulysses Owens Jr. — a group whose sound and character were already firmly established and well received. Rather than refine a winning formula, he chose to break from it.
— Statement stmt-christian-mcbride-on-christian-sands
Joshua Redman
Christian McBride