# Scott Colley

Scott Colley (born November 24, 1963) is an American jazz double bassist and composer. As of 2024, he has been nominated for 4 Grammy Awards, including Best Jazz Instrumental Album for Guided Tour in 2014 and Still Dreaming in 2019. Throughout his career, he has toured, recorded, and played with musicians such as Herbie Hancock, Jim Hall, Carmen McRae, Chris Potter, Julian Lage, Brian Blade, and Pat Metheny.

## Early life and education

Colley was born on November 24, 1963 in Los Angeles, California. He began studying bass at age 11 after his older brother Jim, a drummer, said he "thought it would be cool to have another rhythm section instrument in the family." At 13, he began studying with bassist Monty Budwig and played twice a week at a club in Pasadena, where he spent three years being mentored by musicians such as Jimmy Rowles. At Eagle Rock High School, he studied under John Rinaldo. He auditioned at California Institute for the Arts after learning that Charlie Haden taught there and was granted a full-ride scholarship. He studied with Haden and Fred Tinsley, and began touring and recording with jazz singer Carmen McRae prior to graduating in 1988. He then moved to New York City.

## Career

In 1988 and 1989, he accompanied McRae on a tour across the US and in Tokyo. He also performed with musicians including Dizzy Gillespie and Clifford Jordan. In the 1990s, members of his touring groups included Jim Hall, John Scofield, Joe Henderson, Art Farmer, Joe Lovano, Toots Thielemans, Bobby Hutcherson, and Bob Berg. He also played extensively with Andrew Hill's Another Point of Departure sextet. In 1996, he released his debut album, Portable Universe, which featured Chris Potter and David Binney. He recorded Subliminal... (1998) with a quartet, while This Place (1997) and The Magic Line (2000) were both recorded with a trio including Potter and Bill Stewart.
Colley toured extensively as a member of Herbie Hancock's working trio for five years in the early 2000s, periodically performing alongside other music groups such as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He performed with two separate quartets, one with Gary Thomas and the other with Bobby Hutcherson, as well as with Andrew Hill's trio and sextet and Chris Potter's quartet. Initial Wisdom, his 2003 album release, featured Ravi Coltrane, Adam Rogers, and Bill Stewart. In 2005, he worked on the Directions in Music tour with Michael Brecker, Herbie Hancock, Roy Hargrove, and Terri Lyne Carrington. He continued performing with Jim Hall and joined a trio with Pat Metheny. Around this time, he began taking residencies at institutions including the Banff Centre, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Vallekilde Folk High School. In 2007, he toured internationally with Chris Potter and Antonio Sánchez.
In the mid-2000s, Colley recorded projects with Chris Potter, Abbey Lincoln, Luciana Souza, Kenny Werner, Adam Rogers, and Donny McCaslin. In 2007, he joined Billy Childs' Jazz-Chamber Ensemble with Brian Blade and taught a workshop at Berklee with Antonio Sánchez and Chris Potter. He also released his fourth album, Architect of the Silent Moment, in 2007. It was composed entirely by him with the exception of "Smoke Stack," which was written by Andrew Hill. The album was recorded with a quartet including Ralph Alessi, Craig Taborn, and Brian Blade with appearances by David Binney, Jason Moran, Adam Rogers, Gregoire Maret, and Antonio Sánchez. He and the core quartet began touring prior to the album being fully finished. In the late 2000s, he performed in the US, Europe, and South America with Mark Turner and Antonio Sánchez; Chris Potter's Underground; Edward Simon; the Antonio Sánchez Quartet with Sánchez, Miguel Zenón, and David Sánchez; Magic Circle with Dave Douglas and Mark Feldman; the David Binney Quartet with Binney, Craig Taborn and Brian Blade; and the Kenny Werner Quintet with Werner, Randy Brecker, David Sánchez, and Ari Hoenig. During the summer of 2010, he released Empire, an album entirely of original compositions, on CAM Jazz with longtime collaborators Bill Frisell, Alessi, Blade, and Taborn. He continued touring with Jim Hall and Joey Baron; Chris Potter; the Kenny Werner Quintet; and Michel Portal and Gary Burton and spent the summer doing a teaching residency at the Siena Summer Workshop in Siena, Italy.
Between 2011 and 2015, Colley's group lineups included a trio with Chris Potter and Antonio Sánchez; the Koppel Colley Blade Collective with Benjamin Koppel and Brian Blade; Bob James, David Sanborn, and Steve Gadd at the London Jazz Festival (2013); a trio with Julian Lage and Kenny Wollesen; the Steel House trio with Edward Simon and Brian Blade; and the Pat Metheny Trio with Metheny and Kenny Garrett and a quartet with Metheny and Gary Burton, both at the Detroit International Jazz Festival in 2015. He was also a member of the Jim Hall Trio until Hall's death in 2013. Colley appeared on Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz on NPR in 2014 with Chris Potter. Between 2016 and 2019, he played with many of the same groups: a trio with Gary Burton and Julian Lage; Chris Potter's Underground Quartet; and the Steel House. He held a residency at The Stone with the Nels Cline Four in 2016 with Nels Cline, Julian Lage, and Tom Rainey. He performed with Joshua Redman on his Still Dreaming tour in 2017 and accompanied Luciana Souza alongside Chico Pinheiro at the Portland Jazz Festival in 2018. Also in 2017, he released his next album, Seven.
In January 2020, Colley, Julian Lage, and Dave King had a six-night residency at Village Vanguard, though this was interrupted by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. In December, he performed via livestream on the Jazzwise Facebook page with Tim Berne and Nasheet Waits. He was back to touring the following summer, heading to Europe with Antonio Sánchez, Donny McCaslin, and Miguel Zenón. In 2022, he toured with Brian Blade and Wolfgang Muthspiel.

## Personal life

Colley and his wife have a daughter (born c. 2002).

## Discography

| Year | Leader | Album | Label | Lineup |
| 1986 | Dick Berk | More Birds Less Feathers | Discovery | Brignola, Fahn, Pozzi |
| 1986 | Carmen McRae | Any Old Time | Denon | Collins, Gunnison, Jordan, Pulice |
| 1990 | Roy Hargrove | Diamond in the Rough | Novus/RCA | Fambrough, Foster, Hargrove, A. Hart, Hicks, Keezer, Moore, Peterson |
| 1990 | Judy Niemack | Long As You're Living | Free Lance | B. Hart, Hersch, Lovano |
| 1991 | Kevin Hays | El Matador | Jazz City | Henderson, S. Wilson |
| 1991 | Fred Hersch | Forward Motion | Chesky | Friedlander, Perry, Rainey |
| 1992 | Jon Gordon | The Jon Gordon Quartet | Chiaroscuro | Stewart |
| 1992 | Christopher Hollyday | And I'll Sing Once More | RCA/Novus | Charry, Clark, M. Feldman, Gardner, Haddad, Mosca, Mosello, Neumeister, Purviance, Robinson, R. Savage, Werner |
| 1992 | Carmen McRae | New York State of Mind | Victor | Gunnison, Pulice |
| 1993 | T.S. Monk | Changing of the Guard | Blue Note | Mathews, Porcelli, Sickler, Williams |
| 1993 | Judy Niemack | Straight Up | Free Lance | Bleckmann, Café, Elridge, M. Feldman, Nussbaum, Prins, Thielemans, Werner |
| 1993 | Ted Rosenthal | Images of Monk | Jazz Alliance | M. Feldman, Lynch, Oatts, Smith |
| 1993 | Steve Slagle | The Steve Slagle Quartet | SteepleChase | Hagans, Hirshfield |
| 1994 | Harold Danko | Next Age | SteepleChase | Hirshfield, Perry |
| 1994 | Roy Hargrove | Approaching Standards | BMG Music/Jazz Heritage | R. Blake, Cary, Foster, A. Hart, Hicks, Higgins, Hutchinson, Lacy, McBride, Scott, Whitaker |
| 1994 | Jazzhole | The Jazzhole | Bluemoon | Binney Bloedow, DiSimone, Mark, Sanders |
| 1994 | Chris Potter | Concentric Circles | Concord | J. Hart, B. Stewart, Werner |
| 1995 | Rez Abbasi | Third Ear | Cathexis | Copland, Drewes, Erskine, Haddad, Johnson, Lossing, Mintzer, Perowsky, Takeishi, Werner |
| 1995 | David Binney | The Luxury of Guessing | AudioQuest | Armor, Caine, Hirshfield, McCaslin, Monder, Sadownick |
| 1995 | Bill Charlap | Souvenir | Criss Cross | Mackrel |
| 1995 | Julian Coryell | Jazzbo | Venus | Adams, L. Coryell, L. Harris, C. Jones, Moffett, Sanborn, Wolf |
| 1995 | Jim Hall | Dialogues | Telarc | Frisell, Goldstein, Lovano, Harrell, Stern, Watson |
| 1995 | T. S. Monk | The Charm | Blue Note | Mathews, Porcelli, Sickler, Williams |
| 1995 | Steve Slagle | Spread the Word | SteepleChase | Hagans, Hirshfield |
| 1995 | Stephen Sondheim | Color and Light | Sony | Barth, Blade, Blanchard, Bryson, Castro-Neves, Cole, A. Davis, T. Davis, Hall, Hancock, Hirshfield, Keezer, McBride, Mehldau, Piltch, Redman, Shorter, Smith, Thomas, Washington, N. Wilson |
| 1995 | Dave Stryker | Nomad | SteepleChase | Alexiev, Burridge, Brecker, Eckert, Fusco, Hanlon, Hirshfield, Kadleck, Millikan, J. Nelson, B. Parsons, Seaton, Sessions, Slagle, Warfield, J. Weiskopf, W. Weiskopf |
| 1996 | Scott Colley | Portable Universe | Free Lance | Binney, Hirshfield, McCaslin, Potter, Werner |
| 1996 | Julian Coryell | Without You | Venus | Brecker, L. Harris, Sadownick, Sanborn, Wolf |
| 1996 | Harold Danko | The Feeling of Jazz | SteepleChase | Hirshfield, Perry |
| 1996 | Harold Danko | New Autumn | SteepleChase | Hirshfield, Perry |
| 1996 | Dave Stryker | The Greeting | SteepleChase | Barth, Reedus, Sadownick |
| 1997 | Scott Colley | This Place | SteepleChase | Potter, B. Stewart |
| 1997 | Harold Danko | Tidal Breeze | SteepleChase | Hirshfield, Perry |
| 1997 | Jim Hall | Panorama: Live at the Village Vanguard | Telarc | Clarke |
| 1997 | Jim Hall | Textures | Telarc | Clarke, DiCenzo, Kisor, Lovano, Pugh, Roditi |
| 1997 | Pat Martino | All Sides Now | Blue Note | Amendola, Andress, Eubanks, Hedges, Hirshfield, C. Hunter, Nowinski, Paul, Perowsky, Satriani, Stern, Wilson |
| 1997 | Doug Raney | Back in New York | SteepleChase | Washington, Weiss |
| 1997 | Tim Ries | Imaginary Times | Moo | Amsallem, Baron, Brecker, C. Gordon, B. Hart, Monder, Wendholt |
| 1997 | Steve Slagle | Alto Blue | SteepleChase | Jackson, Kisor |
| 1998 | David Binney | Free to Dream | Mythology | Baum, Gayton, McCaslin, Adam Rogers, Sadownick, Edward Simon, Sipiagin, Wolleson, Yates |
| 1998 | Scott Colley | Subliminal... | Criss Cross | Carrothers, Potter, B. Stewart |
| 1998 | Harold Danko | Stable Mates | SteepleChase | Hirshfield, Perry |
| 1998 | Jim Hall | By Arrangement | Telarc | Brofsky, Clarke, Harrell, Lovano, Metheny, New York Voices, Osby, Pugh, Rojas, Schulman |
| 1998 | Andy Parsons | Fundementia | IGMOD | Holober, Lewin, Monder |
| 1998 | Chris Potter | Vertigo | Concord | Drummond, Lovano, Rosenwinkel |
| 1998 | Tim Ries | Universal Spirits | Criss Cross | Drummond, Monder, Wendholt |
| 1998 | Seatbelts | Cowboy Bebop: Vitaminless | Victor | Bartz, Bernstein, Foster, Kanno, B. King, Payton, Potter, Previte, Redman, Robin, Roseman, Sadownick, Shapiro, Soskin, Vallet, Yamane |
| 1998 | Alex Sipiagin | Images | TCB | Binney, Goldstein, Hirshfield, Potter, Rogers, Roseman, Wollesen |
| 1998 | Dave Stryker | All the Way | SteepleChase | B. Stewart |
| 1999 | Lynne Arriale | Melody | TCB | Davis |
| 1999 | Domenico Ferrari | 3 | Straight Ahead | Arguelles, D. Mayer, J. Mayer |
| 1999 | David Kikoski | The Maze | Criss Cross | S. Blake, Watts |
| 1999 | Ben Perowsky | Ben Perowsky Trio | JazzKey Music | Speed |
| 1999 | Dave Pietro | Now Becoming Then | A-Records | Blade, Holober, Isler, McCann, McGuinness, Wendholt |
| 1999 | Renee Rosnes | Art & Soul | Blue Note | Bona, Drummond, Reeves |
| 2000 | Scott Colley | The Magic Line | ArtistShare | Potter, B. Stewart |
| 2000 | Rebekka Bakken | Daily Mirror | Material | Blade, Cheek, Muthspiel |
| 2000 | Harold Danko | Nightscapes | SteepleChase | Hirshfield, Perry |
| 2000 | Joel Frahm | The Navigator | Palmetto | Berkman, Drummond |
| 2000 | Andrew Hill | Dusk | Palmetto | Drummond, Horton, Ehrlich, Tardy |
| 2000 | Jazzhole | Blackburst | Beave Music | Carter, Chancey, DiSimone, Eminizer, Inniss, M. Lewis, Mark, Pondell, Russ, Sadownick, Whitworth |
| 2000 | Rick Margitza | Heart of Hearts | Palmetto | Froman |
| 2000 | Donny McCaslin | Seen from Above | Arabesque | Black, Monder |
| 2000 | Greg Osby | The Invisible Hand | Blue Note | Carrington, Hall, Hill, Thomas |
| 2000 | Josh Roseman | Cherry | Enja | Baron, Bowie, Hoenig Jensen, Medeski, Monder, E. J. Rodriguez, J. Rodriguez, Shulman |
| 2001 | David Binney | Afinidad | Red | Blade, A. Cruz, L. Cruz, Rogers, Simon |
| 2001 | David Binney | South | ACT | Black, Blade, Caine, Potter, Rogers |
| 2001 | Stefano Bollani | Les Fleurs Bleues | Label Bleu | Penn |
| 2001 | Peter Epstein | Old School | M.A. | Epstein, Erskine |
| 2001 | Jim Hall | Jim Hall & Basses | Telarc | Haden, Holland, McBride, Mraz |
| 2001 | Rick Margitza | Memento | Palmetto | Blade, Miller |
| 2001 | Greg Osby | Symbols of Light | Blue Note | Browden, Howes, Insell-Staack, Moran, Rice-Shaw, Workman |
| 2001 | Dave Pietro | Standard Wonder | A-Records | Berkman, Blade, McCann, McGuinness, Wendholt |
| 2001 | Chris Potter | This Will Be | Storyville | Drummond, Fischer, Fuglsang, Hays, Potter, Tranberg |
| 2001 | Chris Potter | Gratitude | Verve | Blade, Hays |
| 2001 | Brad Shepik | Short Trip | Knitting Factory | Rainey |
| 2001 | Alex Sipiagin | Steppin' Zone | Criss Cross | Kikoski, Potter, Watts |
| 2002 | Jim Hall | Downbeat Critic's Choice | Telarc | Mraz |
| 2002 | Andrew Hill | A Beautiful Day | Palmetto | Ballou, D'avila, Ehrlich, Fahn, Fielder, Frink, C. Gordon, Horton, Parran, J. Savage, Staalens, A. Stewart, Tardy, Nasheet Waits |
| 2002 | Joachim Kühn | Universal Time | EmArcy | Hernandez, Portal, Potter |
| 2002 | Chris Potter | Traveling Mercies | Verve | Hays, Rogers, Scofield, B. Stewart |
| 2002 | Adam Rogers | Art of the Invisible | Criss Cross | Penn, Simon |
| 2003 | Scott Colley | Initial Wisdom | Palmetto | Coltrane, Rogers, B. Stewart |
| 2003 | Andrew Hill | The Day the World Stood Still | Stunt | Agergaard, Fuglsang, Helm, Lohrer, Mockūnas, Svensson, Waits |
| 2003 | Mike Holober | Canyon | Sons of Sound | Blade, Muthspiel, Ries |
| 2003 | Kate McGarry | Show Me | Palmetto | Cardenas, Hammack, Hinrichs, Kovac, McHenry, Refosco, Snedeker, Wolleson |
| 2003 | Adam Rogers | Allegory | Criss Cross | Penn, Potter, Simon |
| 2003 | Brad Shepik | Drip | Knitting Factory | Rainey |
| 2003 | Luciana Souza | North and South | Sunnyside | Barth. Hersch, McCaslin, Penn, Simon |
| 2003 | Bojan Z | Transpacifik | Label Bleu | Waits |
| 2004 | David Binney | Welcome to Life | Mythology | Blade, Potter, Rogers, Taborn |
| 2004 | Jim Hall | Magic Meeting | ArtistShare | Nash |
| 2004 | Judy Niemack | Jazz Singer's Practice Session | GAM | Hersch, Weller |
| 2004 | Chris Potter | Lift: Live at the Village Vanguard | Sunnyside | Hays, B. Stewart |
| 2004 | Alex Sipiagin | Equilibrium | Criss Cross | Binney, Jackson, Kikoski, Potter |
| 2005 | Adam Rogers | Apparitions | Criss Cross | Penn, Potter, Rogers, Simon |
| 2005 | Alex Sipiagin | Returning | Criss Cross | S. Blake, Rogers, Sánchez |
| 2006 | Juliette Greco | Le Temps D'Une Chanson | Sunnyside | Abt, Albach, Brecker, Brice, Carbone, Casewell, Clark, Cutler, Fukuhara, Gallagher, Gemeinhardt, Goldstein, Henze, Jaffe, Jouannest, Kawahara, Kelley, Kitzis, Kuuskmann, Locker, Lovano, Lutzke, Mann, Miller, Mook, Moye, Nester, Nicolau, Paradise, Payne, Pridemore, Reid, Roney, Sadownick, Sato, Schultz, Shaw, Shumway, Siroky, Ting, Turner, Underwood, Wechsler, Witek |
| 2006 | Donny McCaslin | The Way Through | Arabesque | A. Cruz, Binney, Bostrom, Souza, Yates |
| 2006 | Donny McCaslin | Give and Go | Criss Cross | Cardenas, Jackson, Swana |
| 2006 | Donny McCaslin | Soar | Sunnyside | Bonilla, Endsley, Evans, Monder, A. Sánchez, Saturnino, Souza |
| 2006 | Kenny Werner | Democracy (Live at the Blue Note) | Half Note | Blade, D. Sánchez, Shulman, Werner, Wheeler, |
| 2007 | David Binney | Oceanos | Criss Cross | Blade, Endsley, Ferber, Newman, Rogers, Saturnino, Simon, Souza |
| 2007 | Scott Colley | Architect of the Silent Moment | CAM Jazz | Alessi, Binney, Maret, Moran, Rogers, A. Sánchez, Taborn |
| 2007 | Abbey Lincoln | Abbey Sings Abbey | Verve | Campbell, Eggar, Goldstein, Pelton |
| 2007 | Donny McCaslin | In Pursuit | Sunnyside | Binney, Monder, A. Sánchez, Saturnino |
| 2007 | Chris Potter | Song for Anyone | Sunnyside | Cardenas, A. Cruz, Eggar, M. Feldman, Martin, Potter, Rabinowitz, Tardy, von Kleist |
| 2007 | Adam Rogers | Time and the Infinite | Criss Cross | B. Stewart |
| 2007 | Antonio Sánchez | Migration | CAM Jazz | Corea, Metheny, Potter, D. Sánchez |
| 2007 | Alex Sipiagin | Prints | Criss Cross | Kikoski, Michiru, Potter, A. Sánchez |
| 2007 | Alex Sipiagin | Out of the Circle | ArtistShare | Eubanks, Goldstein, Hey, McCaslin, Michiru, Rogers, Sadownick, A. Sánchez |
| 2007 | Kenny Werner | Lawn Chair Society | Blue Note | Blade, Douglas, Pickett, Potter |
| 2008 | Jim Hall | Hemispheres | ArtistShare | Baron, Frisell |
| 2008 | Monday Michiru | My Ever Changing Moods | Geneon | Ephron, Hey, McCaslin, Rogers, Sadownick, A. Sánchez |
| 2008 | Jane Monheit | The Lovers, the Dreamers and Me | Concord | Bernstein, S. Blake, Goldstein, S. Harris, Johnson, Kanan, Lubambo, Miner, Montalbano, A. Sánchez, Vignola |
| 2008 | Boz Scaggs | Speak Low | Decca | Acuña, Crystal, L. Feldman, Goldstein, Hammann, Heick, Locker, Mainieri, Marini, Martin, Robbins, Seaton, Shanahan, Sheppard |
| 2009 | Helio Alves | It's Clear | Reservoir | Lubambo, Simpson |
| 2009 | David Binney | Third Occasion | Mythology | Akinmusire, Binney, Blade, A. Hunter, C. King, Mason |
| 2009 | Bendik Hofseth | XI | Grappa | Goldstein, Louvel, Mainieri, A. Sánchez |
| 2009 | Komeda Project | Requiem | WM | Johnson, Medyna, Waits, Winnicki |
| 2009 | Donny McCaslin | Declaration | Sunnyside | Gilkes, Greenblatt, Komer, McCaslin, Monder, Rojas, Saturnino, A. Sánchez, Sipiagin, Simon |
| 2009 | Rale Mićić | 3 | CTA | Hutchinson, Jovanovic, Markovic |
| 2009 | Tineke Postma | The Traveller | Etcetera | Allen, Carrington |
| 2010 | Scott Colley | Empire | CAM Jazz | Alessi, Blade, Frisell, Taborn |
| 2010 | Mason Brothers Quintet | Two Sides One Story | Archival | Kikoski, Potter, A. Sánchez |
| 2010 | Michel Portal | Baïlador | Classics & Jazz France | Akinmusire, DeJohnette, Loueke |
| 2010 | Antonio Sánchez | Live in New York at Jazz Standard | CAM Jazz | Sánchez, Zenón |
| 2011 | Gary Burton | Common Ground | Mack Avenue | Lage, A. Sánchez |
| 2011 | Maurane | Fais-Moi Une Fleur | Polydor | Campbell, Creswell, Eggar, Goldstein, Henze, Lee, Mainieri, J. Nelson, Nester, Pelton, Phaneuf, Pillow, Rizner, Sanborn, Thielemans, Todorov |
| 2011 | John Scofield | A Moment's Peace | EmArcy | Blade, Goldings |
| 2012 | Thomas Chapin | Never Let Me Go: Quartets '95 & '96 | Playscape | Fujiwara, Nicholson, Wilson |
| 2012 | Enrico Pieranunzi | Permutation | CAM Jazz | A. Sánchez |
| 2012 | Edward Simon | A Master's Diary | CAM Jazz | Penn |
| 2013 | David Ake | Bridges | Posi-Tone | Alessi, Coltrane, Epstein, Ferber |
| 2013 | Gary Burton | Guided Tour | Mack Avenue | Lage, A. Sánchez |
| 2013 | Alex Sipiagin | Overlooking Moments | Criss Cross | Harland, Potter |
| 2014 | Thana Alexa | Ode to Heroes | Jazz Village | Boente, Disu, Krečič, Lindhorst, McCaslin, Rafalides, Roeder, Salvatore, A. Sánchez, Yasutake |
| 2014 | Sylvie Courvoisier | Birdies for Lulu | Intakt | M. Feldman, Mintz |
| 2014 | Jazzhole | Blue 72 | Beave Music | Binney, Friedman, Inniss, Mark, Pondel, Pozner, Robohm, Sadownick, Slattery |
| 2014 | Enrico Pieranunzi | Stories | CAM Jazz | A. Sánchez |
| 2015 | Chris Potter | Imaginary Cities | ECM | Ephron, J. Feldman, Hammann, Martin, S. Nelson, Rogers, Smith, Taborn |
| 2015 | Various | Hommage a Eberhard Weber | ECM | Burton, Garbarek, McCandless, Metheny, Gottlieb, SWR Big Band |
| 2016 | Nels Cline | Currents, Constellations | Blue Note | Lage, Rainey |
| 2016 | Julian Lage | Arclight | Mack Avenue | Wollesen |
| 2016 | Enrico Pieranunzi | New Spring | CAM Jazz | McCaslin, Penn |
| 2017 | Joey Alexander | Joey.Monk.Live! | Motéma | Jones |
| 2017 | Scott Colley | Seven | ArtistShare | Finlayson, Hays, Smith |
| 2017 | Sinne Eeg | Dreams | Stunt | Baron, Christoffersen, Koonse, Mandrup, J. Nilsson, L. Nilsson |
| 2017 | Donny McCaslin | Brooklyn 3 | Edition Longplay | J. Blake, Douglas |
| 2017 | Bria Skonberg | With a Twist | Okeh | Cardenas, Fortner, Goldberg, Goldstein, Johnson, Wilson |
| 2018 | Julian Lage | Modern Lore | Mack Avenue | Chester, J. Harris, Wolleson |
| 2018 | Joshua Redman | Still Dreaming | Nonesuch | Blade, Miles |
| 2018 | Edward Simon | Sorrows & Triumphs | Sunnyside | Binney, Blade, Bocatto, Parlato, Quintero, Rogers |
| 2018 | Steve Slagle | Dedication | Panorama | Diaz, Fields, B. Stewart, Stryker |
| 2018 | Luciana Souza | The Book of Longing | Sunnyside | Pinheiro |
| 2019 | Franco Ambrosetti | Long Waves | Unit | Caine, DeJohnette, Scofield |
| 2019 | Joshua Redman | Sun on Sand | Nonesuch | Brooklyn Rider, Takeishi, Zimmerli |
| 2020 | Benjamin Koppel | Ultimate Soul & Jazz Revue | Cowbell Music | Anderson, Brecker, Christoffersen, Heller, M. C. Koppel, Nimmer, Purdie |
| 2020 | Wolfgang Muthspiel | Angular Blues | ECM | Blade |
| 2022 | Franco Ambrosetti | Nora | Enja | Caine, Caswell, Erskine, Scofield |
| 2023 | John Bailey | Time Bandits | Freedom Road Records | Cables, V. Lewis |
| 2024 | Wolfgang Muthspiel | Dance of the Elders | ECM | Blade |