0 albums as leader and 26 as sideman (1975–2023), each listed chronologically.
1976 · Jaco Pastorius and 3 more
Randy Brecker played trumpet on Jaco Pastorius's landmark 1976 debut album, a cornerstone of jazz fusion. Fifteen years later, the same trumpeter turns up on a folk-tinged pop record — New Moon Shine (1991) — a world away from fusion's cutting edge.
1984 · The Silencer
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.
1991 · From Hollywood
By 1979 Fred Hersch had no records under his own name. On Yama that year he turns up as a mid-twenties unknown in the small print of a date led by two established horn players — years before anyone bought a record for his name.
2019 · Adrian Cunningham & His Friends Play Lerner & Loewe
In 2014, bassist John Hebert appeared on Fred Hersch's My Coma Dreams, not a conventional trio record but a staged piece in which an actor re-enacts the hallucinations Hersch experienced during a real, medically induced coma in 2008.
Marcus Miller
Fred Hersch
