Joshua Redman Quartet - MoodSwing

A quartet of stars, in their first outing together, in 1994: Redman (Sax), McBride (bass), Brian Blade (drums), and Brad Mehldau (piano).

Two discs full of originals, really nicely recorded. The performances are uniformly great, too.

Liner notes were left out of this, but are on Redman's website, and well worth reading:

https://www.joshuaredman.com/moodswing

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Joshua Redman Quartet - Come What May

Delving back into earlier Joshua Redman LPs, this features his quartet of Aaron Goldberg (piano), Reuben Rogers (bass), and Gregory Hutchinson (drums).

They'd played together for something like 20 years before this 2019 set, and it's a great example of fun, virtuosic post-bop. (Featuring not one, but two Harvard grads, in Redman and Goldberg. Go figure.)

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