Joshua Redman, Brad Mehldau, Christian McBride & Brian Blade Return with LongGone, out September 9 on Nonesuch
Live performance video for song from album, “Disco Ears,” out today
“Musicians with a scary level of talent playing into the moment … The blend of outside influences into a consensual jazz language, the polyrhythmic play, the scholarly bravado: All those things felt fresh for these musicians in the 1990s ... There’s something undeniable—consoling, even—about hearing them remain true to it today.” —New York Times
The members of the legendary original 1990s Joshua Redman Quartet—Redman (saxophone), Brad Mehldau (piano), Christian McBride (bass), and Brian Blade (drums)—reunited after twenty-six years for 2020’s RoundAgain; they return now with LongGone, featuring six original songs by Redman, due September 9, 2022 on Nonesuch Records. The first of those tunes, “Disco Ears,” is out today along with a live performance video. Pre-orders of LongGone are available now.
RoundAgain, the group’s first recording since 1994’s MoodSwing, debuted at No. 1 on the Current Traditional Jazz Albums chart in the US and at No. 1 on the Jazz & Blues chart in the UK. The album received two Grammy nominations. NPR called it “a flawless effort,” stating that the four musicians have “only gotten better in that time” and are each “at the very top of his game now.”
Redman says of his first group as a bandleader, which was together for approximately a year and a half: “I realized almost immediately that this band wouldn’t stay together for very long. They were without a doubt, for our generation, among the most accomplished and innovative on their respective instruments. I knew better than anyone else just how incredibly lucky I was to have even that short time with them.”
Joshua Redman, Brad Mehldau, Christian McBride, Brian Blade: LongGone
Long Gone
Disco Ears
Statuesque
Kite Song
Ship to Shore
Rejoice *
*Live version of song from MoodSwing
