LongGone

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LongGone
LongGone cover.jpg
Studio album with live tracksby
Redman, Mehldau, McBride and Blade
ReleasedSeptember 9, 2022
Recorded2007, September 10–12, 2019
VenueHerbst Theater, San Francisco
Studio Sear Sound Studio C, New York City
Genre Jazz
Length47:13
Label Nonesuch
Producer
  • Joshua Redman
  • James Farber
Joshua Redman chronology
RoundAgain
(2020)		LongGone
(2022)		 Where Are We
(2023)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 88/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
All About Jazz Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [3]
Financial Times Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Jazzwise Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [6]
Mojo Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Rolling Stone (India)Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [7]
Tom Hull B+ [8]

LongGone is an album by Joshua Redman's quartet, consisting of himself on saxophone, Brad Mehldau on piano, Christian McBride on bass, and Brian Blade on drums. [9] [10] This is the quartet's third release after MoodSwing in 1994 and RoundAgain in 2020. [11] The album features six tracks written by Redman: five originals and one ("Rejoice") taken from MoodSwing .

Contents

The album was nominated as Best Jazz Instrumental Album at 65th Annual Grammy Awards. [12]

Recording and release

"Rejoice" was recorded in concert in 2007 at the Herbst Theater in San Francisco, as part of the San Francisco Jazz Festival. [10] [13] The other tracks were recorded on September 10–12, 2019, at Sear Sound Studio C, New York City. [13] The album was released by Nonesuch Records. [13]

Reception

At Metacritic, that assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 88, based on four reviews, which indicates "universal acclaim". [1]

Jeff Tamarkin writing for JazzTimes stated, "Redman's dominance aside, LongGone ultimately isn't about the dexterity of the individual. Like its predecessors, it's a textbook display of what happens when a group of musicians—each a leader in his own right—understand and trust one another enough to let the music go where it must." [14] John Fordham of The Guardian commented, "The quartet's mid-90s rapport was enthralling, but burgeoning solo careers separated them until 2020's RoundAgain reunion showed that their individual experiences since had only sharpened their intuition as a foursome. Now 2022's LongGone takes the story forward." [5] Matt Collar of AllMusic added, "Most of LongGone feels deeply organic, with Redman and his bandmates feeding off each other and working to build something cohesive and bigger than their individual contributions." [3]

Accolades

Publications' year-end list appearances for The 7th Hand
Critic/PublicationListRankRef.
JazzTimes JazzTimes Top 40 Albums of 20226 [15]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Joshua Redman

No.TitleLength
1."Long Gone"7:21
2."Disco Ears"6:21
3."Statuesque"8:18
4."Kite Song"6:00
5."Ship to Shore"6:31
6."Rejoice"12:42
Total length:47:13

Personnel

Band
Production

Charts

Chart performance for LongGone
Chart (2022)Peak
position
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [16] 68
US Top Jazz Albums (Billboard) [17] 11

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  2. ↑ Gudell, Scott (15 February 2023). "Redman / Mehldau / McBride / Blade: Long Gone album review @ All About Jazz". All About Jazz . Retrieved 4 May 2024.
  3. 1 2 Collar, Matt. "Brian Blade, Christian McBride, Brad Mehldau, Joshua Redman - LongGone Album Reviews, Songs & More | AllMusic". AllMusic . Retrieved 21 November 2022.
  4. ↑ Hobart, Mike (9 September 2022). "Joshua Redman, Brad Mehldau, Christian McBride and Brian Blade: LongGone album review — impressive dialogues". Financial Times . Retrieved 29 December 2022.
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