Redman / Mehldau / McBride / Blade: LongGone (LP)

The members of the legendary Joshua Redman Quartet of the 1990s - Redman (saxophone), Brad Mehldau (piano), Christian McBride (bass) and Brian Blade (drums) - reunited after 26 years for the album "RoundAgain", released in 2020. Now the band is back with "LongGone", a new recording featuring six original compositions by Redman. "Disco Ears", the first forerunner to the album, is now available as a live performance video. "RoundAgain", the group's first recording since 1994's "MoodSwing", immediately reached No. 1 in the traditional jazz album charts in the U.S. and No. 1 in the English jazz & blues charts. The album was also honored with two Grammy nominations. NPR described the album as a "flawless achievement", and found that the four musicians "have only gotten better with time - today, each and every one of them is playing at their absolute best". Redman recalls his first group as band leader, which stayed together for about a year and a half: "I realized pretty quickly that this band wasn't going to last too long. For our generation, we were undoubtedly some of the most skilled and innovative musicians on our respective instruments. I knew better than anyone how incredibly lucky I was to have led this band for even a short period of time."