Remarkable guitar+sax quartets

[nion]

I would like to compile a list of great records featuring this instrumentation.

I just started a quartet with an alto player, bass and drums and I'm listening to a lot of recordings using this line up to get inspiration and also to get ideas about how to use textures and help me through the composition process as well.

which are your favorite recordings in this setting?

I'll start with a recent one: Bill McHenry Ghosts of the Sun, featuring Ben Monder, Paul Motian and Reid Anderson.

The Bridge, by Sonny Rollins and featuring Jim Hall is a must have.

Let's see your favorites!

[mr. beaumont]

Ike quebec's "blue and sentimental," featuring grant green.

Grand slam (jim hall, joe lovano)

I'll think of more but these two popped into my mind right away...

[TruthHertz]

John Scofield with Joe Lovano
Paul Desmond with Ed Bikert
Paul Desmond with Jim Hall
Dan Willis with Ben Monder (1st CD is better)
Arthur Blythe with Bill Frisell (Joey Baron leader)
Aaron Irwin with Ben Monder (Both Maria Schneider Orch members)
Mick Goodrick, Dewey Redmond, Charlie Haden, the late and great Paul Motian- this quartet... mmmmmm!

Those are a few that I like.
David

[mangotango]

Welcome on board! My own quartet - well, the quartet in which I play - is guitar, tenor occasionally doubling on alto, bass and drums. It's a very flexible format and easy to work with..

Try Joshua Redman's "Wish" album - quartet with Metheny on guitar.

Or this

Eric Alexander / Peter Bernstein Group - YouTube

Or this

"James"- Pat Metheny, Michael Brecker, Christian McBride, Antonio Sanchez - YouTube

[jbear]

Rosenwinkel and Turner
Stern and Berg
Brecker and Metheny
Rosenwinkel and Roman Ott
...come to mind.

[Spirit59]

Adam Rogers and Chris Potter

[aniss1001]

Here are some of my favorite recordings with that particular setup (Guitar, Sax, Drums, Bass):

John Scofield - Time on my hands (with Joe Lovano)
John Scofield - Meant to be (with Joe Lovano)
Paul Motian - Paul Motian plays Bill Evans (with Joe Lovano and Bill Frisell)
The Hudson Project - Live in NY city (with John Abercrombie and Bob Mintzer)
Paul Desmond - Feeling Blue (with Jim Hall)

It is probably my prefferred setup too. Hmm actually it would be with a trumpet instead of sax (my favorite horn players are Chet and Miles). By the way does anyone know any recording with THAT kind of setup? Come to think of it don't have any such records

[cosmic gumbo]

Joe Henderson -So near, So far w/Scofield
Dave Holland Quartet -Extensions w/Kevin Eubanks and Steve Coleman

[aniss1001]

Originally Posted by TruthHertz

John Scofield with Joe Lovano

Are you refferring to the Scofield albums I mentioned (Time on my hands, Meant to be) or something else ??

[cmajor9]

The Bridge - Sonny Rollins with Jim Hall

[jasonc]

The Neal Miner Quartet's "Sweet Tooth" is pretty hip. Peter Bernstein plays on that one.

[aniss1001]

Originally Posted by cosmic gumbo

Joe Henderson -So near, So far w/Scofield

Since Sco is the man in my book I immediately checked out this one, which I never heard of before, and I haven't been able to stop listening to it ever since. Awesome album Thanks for sharing

[alwaysharp]

Paul Motion Plays Bill Evans
The Remedy, Dharma Daze - Mark Turner & Rosenwinkel
Follow The Red Line, Underground - Chris Potter & Adam Rodgers


These are what I've got on heavy rotation lately.

[hed_b94]

Gilad Hekselman's quartet

[TruthHertz]

Originally Posted by alwaysharp

Paul Motion Plays Bill Evans
The Remedy, Dharma Daze - Mark Turner & Rosenwinkel
Follow The Red Line, Underground - Chris Potter & Adam Rodgers


These are what I've got on heavy rotation lately.

I love the Chris Potter too, just to note, it's not a quartet and the guitar role is sometimes shared with a keyboard player. Unspoken ,however, is a quartet with Dave Holland and Jack DeJohnette. If we're opening the format up to quintet, there's a WHOLE lot of great quintet recordings out there! Much of what Kurt does will have piano too.
David

[TruthHertz]

Originally Posted by aniss1001

Are you refferring to the Scofield albums I mentioned (Time on my hands, Meant to be) or something else ??

The quartet Sco had with Joe was one of the longest running quartets around and for a stretch they were very prolific. Aside from what you mentioned, there have been, among others: What We Do, and a live CD that's been out there in wide circulation which Sco admits is good but is in fact an illegal bootleg for which he doesn't get a penny,
And while I'm filling in holes here, the quartet with Dave Leibman, Nils Orsted Henning Pederson -Dancing On The Tables is one of the best of early Sco.
Sco again with Chris Potter on Unspoken

All good stuff for you Sco fans
David

[jtizzle]

One of the craziest live shows I've seen is Jonathan Kreisberg with Will Vinson (who occasionally played piano when he wasn't on sax), Joe Martin, and Mark Ferber. Insane stuff.

Also Gilad's quartet. And David Sanchez's on Cultural Survival with Lage Lund.

[aniss1001]

To TruthHertz: Thanks for the info