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Gregory Hutchinson

Drums, percussion, production — American — B: June 16, 1970, Brooklyn, New York
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Gregory Hutchinson on drums with the Gerald Clayton Trio at the INNtöne Jazzfestival, Diersbach, Austria, July 24, 2022 CC BY-SA 4.0 (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International; attribution: Bernd Scholkemper, Wikimedia user Schorle, own work). License read off the file page wikitext, which carries {{self|cc-by-sa-4.0}}, not off a search snippet. — Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Greg_Hutchinson_(2022).jpg

Gregory Hutchinson was born June 16, 1970 in Brooklyn to Caribbean parents, and the two halves of his playing were both in the house before he left it. His father was a percussionist who led a reggae band called the Triadics and recruited his son into it young; his mother owned a record collection that had been in her family for two generations, running across jazz, soul and funk. Outside, hip-hop was being invented in real time, and Hutchinson has said the Furious Five, Busy Bee and Kool Moe Dee mattered to him exactly as much as the records indoors. He studied privately at the Manhattan School of Music with Justin DiCioccio and took lessons from two of New York's most exacting jazz drummers, Marvin "Smitty" Smith and Kenny Washington. Washington's assessment of the teenager, quoted in a mid-1990s press biography, was that he was "one of very few young drummers who's learning the insides of the drums and the music," and that unlike most players his age "he listens."

He was still in school when trumpeter Red Rodney hired him and took him touring in the United States and abroad, in 1989 and 1990. That tenure is where every account of his career begins, and it is worth being precise about it: no commercially issued album came out of it. Rodney's Then and Now, the studio date closest to those years, was cut in New York in May 1992 with Jimmy Madison on drums. The Rodney association was a bandstand education, not a discography entry. The recorded career starts instead with pianist Stephen Scott recommending him to Betty Carter, who put him in her trio for two years. Hutchinson has been blunt about what that taught him, describing a sense of coloring, dynamics and control he did not have before, and joking that Carter laid down beats slow enough that he "could literally take a dinner break in between some of those beats." His first album credit, at nineteen, is Carter's Droppin' Things, recorded live at The Bottom Line on May 25 and 26, 1990.

The 1990s made his reputation twice over. He joined the Roy Hargrove Quintet and stayed through the trumpeter's Novus and Verve years, on The Vibe (1992), Of Kindred Souls (1993), With the Tenors of Our Time (1994) and Family (1995), a run that put a young rhythm section in front of Johnny Griffin, Branford Marsalis, Stanley Turrentine and Joshua Redman on successive tracks. In parallel he was hired by the older generation. Joe Henderson used him on Lush Life: The Music of Billy Strayhorn, recorded at Van Gelder Studios on September 3, 6 and 8, 1991 with Christian McBride, Stephen Scott and Wynton Marsalis, and issued by Verve in February 1992. It went to number one on the Billboard jazz chart and held there for two months, won Henderson a Grammy for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Soloist, on the title track, and drew a review from Gary Giddins that singled out Hutchinson's drumming as "elegant and dancing." Then in 1995, at twenty-five, he took over the drum chair in the Ray Brown Trio from Jeff Hamilton, a job that came with a house-band schedule and a Telarc contract: Seven Steps to Heaven (1995), Some of My Best Friends Are... The Sax Players (1996), the Scullers Jazz Club nights of October 17 and 18, 1996 that produced both Live at Scullers and SuperBass, Summertime (1998), Christmas Songs (1999), and finally the January 2000 Avatar Studios sessions that make up most of Walk On: The Final Ray Brown Trio Recording, released in July 2003, a year after Brown's death.

By the turn of the century he was the drummer of choice for two very different kinds of date. One was the working quartet: Joshua Redman built a band around him, Aaron Goldberg and Reuben Rogers for Beyond (2000) and Passage of Time (2001), reconvened the same four for Come What May nearly two decades later in 2019, and used him alongside Brian Blade on the double-trio Compass (2009). The other was the high-profile singer's record, where the brief is to be inaudible and indispensable at once: Dianne Reeves's The Calling, a Sarah Vaughan tribute recorded at O'Henry Studio in Burbank in September 2000, won the Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Album. Alongside all of that he was working outside jazz entirely, touring in Common's live band on the Like Water for Chocolate dates and gigging with Erykah Badu, connections that came through his friend Karriem Riggins, the jazz drummer and hip-hop producer to whom Hutchinson has said he handed off nearly every chair he vacated, Hargrove's and Ray Brown's among them.

Hutchinson moved to Rome, and his catalog since roughly 2015 reflects it: a long run of Italian, French, Slovak, Czech and German dates on which he is often the billed co-leader rather than the sideman, among them Never Fault Behind the Scenes with Gianluca Lusi and Reuben Rogers (2015), Uneven with pianist Stefania Tallini (2020), Holding On with the French altoist Plume (2022) and two of ACT's Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic volumes, the Theo Croker Sketches of Miles concert of November 2021 and the Mingus centenary night of April 2022. It was also in this period that he made the two records with Yotam Silberstein Resonance (2010), with Christian McBride and Aaron Goldberg and Roy Hargrove guesting on two tracks, and The Village (2016), where the streaming edition bills all four players rather than the leader alone.

Then, at fifty-three and after thirty-three years of other people's records, he made one of his own, and it was not a jazz album. Da Bang (Warner, September 29, 2023) is a fifteen-track hip-hop, funk and neo-soul record produced with Riggins, on which Hutchinson sings, plays bass and keyboards as well as drums, and brings in Vernon Reid, Nicholas Payton, Christian Scott, Keyon Harrold, James Poyser and Kurt Rosenwinkel. "I don't need to do a jazz record because everyone knows that I play jazz," he told an interviewer that year. "I wanted to make a record that makes your grandmother dance." He returned to the tradition on his own terms with Kind of Now: The Pulse of Miles Davis (Warner Music Arts, April 3, 2026), a septet recorded at Sear Sound on July 1 and 2, 2025 with Ambrose Akinmusire, Gerald Clayton, Ron Blake, Jakob Bro, Emmanuel Michael and Joe Sanders, reading Miles Davis material from 1948 through 1970 in the composer's centennial year, with liner notes by Christian McBride.

Hutchinson's signature is a swing feel with hip-hop's sense of pocket underneath it, and he is unusually explicit about where the second half comes from. He names Philly Joe Jones as a primary influence because "he's a streetwise cat who incorporated all the elements of his life into his music," and Charlie Parker as a second, saying he wants "to sing on the drums the way he sings on his horn," a description that fits the way he phrases: melodic, conversational, rarely loud for its own sake. In conversation he moves without a seam from Art Blakey and Elvin Jones to J Dilla and John Bonham, and argues that reggae is the essence of what hip-hop became, which is a genealogy that runs straight back through his father's band. What made him the first-call drummer of his generation, though, is a quality both his teacher Kenny Washington and Betty Carter's bandstand demanded: he plays for the music rather than at it, and his three most durable long-term employers, Carter, Ray Brown and Joshua Redman, were all leaders whose bands lived on dynamics and shape rather than volume. His two leader records are best read as an argument about that reputation. Da Bang deliberately refuses to be a drum showcase, and Kind of Now takes on Miles Davis, the bandleader who most valued a drummer's restraint.

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Gregory Hutchinson: Full Discography

Hutchinson is primarily a sideman. He spent thirty-three years on other people's records before releasing one of his own, and the sideman table below is a representative selection, not an exhaustive list. Identity confirmed via the live Discogs API: Gregory Hutchinson is artist ID 345718, profile text "US jazz drummer (* 16 June 1970 in Brooklyn, New York, USA)," with outbound links to drummerworld.com, an archived gregoryhutchinson.com and the English Wikipedia article, all of which match. Discogs indexes 259 releases under that ID: 11 in a "Main" leader, co-leader or featured-artist role, 224 sideman "Appearance" credits, 2 track-level appearances, 19 unofficial pressings, and 3 production or mixing credits. In a 2023 interview Hutchinson put his own total at "somewhere between 150 to 200 releases since 1990," which is the right order of magnitude once bootlegs, compilations and multi-artist samplers are stripped out of the Discogs count.

Selection criterion for the leader table: every album billed to Hutchinson alone. Only two qualify. A second table below covers dates where he is a named co-leader or a billed featured artist rather than a sideman, which is a real and separate category in his catalog and one that the Discogs "Main" role conflates with true leader dates.

Selection criterion for the sideman table: roughly 226 sideman and track-level credits reduced to 70 entries, weighted toward (1) the Betty Carter and Roy Hargrove groups that made his name between 1990 and 1995, (2) the Ray Brown Trio years from 1995, (3) the Joshua Redman quartets, (4) leaders he recorded with repeatedly, and (5) historically notable or award-context one-offs. Every row's label, catalog number, recording date and personnel was read off a specific Discogs release record rather than off the artist index, and where a source conflicts with that pressing the conflict is named in the Notes column. Where a pressing carries no credit block, that is stated rather than papered over.

Spotify note. Spotify's own catalogue search was unavailable, so no album was looked up through it. Every Spotify link below was found by domain-restricted search of open.spotify.com and then validated one by one against Spotify's unauthenticated oEmbed endpoint, which returned the matching album title in each case. Release dates and track counts were cross-checked against the Apple iTunes Search API, which was working normally. Rows without a Spotify link are ones where no confidently matched album page was found; none is guessed.

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As Leader

Album Title Recording Date(s) Release Date Label Catalog Number Format(s) Personnel Role Reissue History Spotify Buy Notes
Da Bang Not stated on the release. Produced and recorded with Karriem Riggins September 29, 2023 Warner Recorded Music (Warner Music Group Germany) 190296157776 CD, Album, Stereo (twofold digipak, clear tray, 20-page booklet); digital Gregory Hutchinson (drums, drum programming, bass, keyboards, vocals, producer), Karriem Riggins (drums, recording, producer), Burniss Earl Travis II and Dario Deidda (bass), Kurt Rosenwinkel, Matthew Stevens and Vernon Reid (guitar), Raymond Angry and Shedrick Mitchell (keyboards), Nicholas Payton, Christian Scott and Keyon Harrold (trumpet), Alex Hamburger (flute), Javier Starks (rap, vocals), Soweto Kinch, Sy Smith, Kameron Corvet, Leona Berlin, Liselotte Östblom, Louis Samora, Paris Jones and Tim Smith (vocals) Leader None catalogued Spotify - Da Bang — Date conflict. The Discogs release record is dated 2022 and prints "℗ 2022 Gregory Hutchinson / © 2022 Warner Music Group Germany Holding GmbH." Apple Music dates the album September 29, 2023 with "℗ 2023," AllMusic calls it "2023's Da Bang," and the entire press cycle (V13, The Urban Music Scene, Music Mecca, Cabbages and Hip-Hop) ran in July to October 2023. 2023 is used here. 15 tracks, a hip-hop, funk, R&B and neo-soul record rather than a jazz one, made after a divorce Hutchinson has said drove the writing. James Poyser of The Roots contributes to "When They're Gone" and Vernon Reid to "My Turn Now"; neither is itemized on the Discogs credit block
Kind of Now: The Pulse of Miles Davis July 1-2, 2025, Sear Sound, New York City April 3, 2026 Warner Music Arts 5026854173122 CD, Album, Stereo; digital Gregory Hutchinson (drums), Ambrose Akinmusire (trumpet), Ron Blake (tenor saxophone, bass clarinet), Gerald Clayton (piano), Jakob Bro and Emmanuel Michael (guitar), Joe Sanders (double bass); liner notes by Christian McBride Leader None catalogued Spotify - Kind of Now — A septet reading of Miles Davis material spanning 1948 to 1970, released into the Davis centennial year. 13 tracks: 10 Davis-associated pieces (including "Ah-Leu-Cha," "Fran-Dance," "Orbits," "Water Babies," "Seven Steps to Heaven," "Bitches Brew" and "Circle in the Round") plus three Hutchinson originals. Wikipedia's personnel list omits Ron Blake, who is a full member of the septet on the pressing

As Co-Leader or Billed Featured Artist

These are dates where the sleeve bills Hutchinson as a principal rather than as a sideman. Discogs files all of them under the same "Main" role as the two leader albums above, which overstates his leader catalog if read uncritically.

Album Title Billed Artist Recording Date(s) Release Date Label Catalog Number Format(s) Personnel Role Spotify Buy Notes
It's About Time Najponk, Ondřej Pivec, Hutchinson Not stated on the release 2010 Animal Music ANI 024-2 CD, Album Najponk (Fender Rhodes), Ondřej Pivec (Hammond B3), Gregory Hutchinson (drums) Co-leader — — A Czech organ-and-Rhodes trio date, three names on the spine and no horns
Sepia Robert Lakatos Trio featuring Gregory Hutchinson April 15-16, 2013 November 4, 2014 Atelier Sawano AS 139 CD Robert Lakatoš (piano), Christian Lakatos (bass), Gregory Hutchinson (drums), Gábor Bolla (tenor saxophone); produced by Peter Bürli Featured artist — — A Japanese-label release by a Serbian-Hungarian trio. Recorded 2013, issued late 2014
Never Fault Behind the Scenes Gianluca Lusi, Andrea Rea, Reuben Rogers, Gregory Hutchinson February 16-17, 2015 2015 Tosky Records TSK014 CD, Album Gianluca Lusi (saxophone, bass clarinet, compositions), Andrea Rea (piano), Reuben Rogers (double bass), Gregory Hutchinson (drums) Co-billed — — All four names on the cover. Hutchinson's first Italian co-billed date, five years before he settled in Rome
Uneven Stefania Tallini, Matteo Bortone, Gregory Hutchinson Not stated on the release January 24, 2020 Alfa Music AFMCD226 CD, Album Stefania Tallini (piano), Matteo Bortone (double bass), Gregory Hutchinson (drums) Co-leader — — An Italian piano trio billed as three equals
Holding On Plume featuring Gregory Hutchinson October 5-6, 2021, Studio Sextan, Malakoff (France); mixed and mastered in New York 2022 Jazz&People JPCD822003 CD, Album Plume (alto saxophone), Leonardo Montana (piano), Géraud Portal (double bass), Gregory Hutchinson (drums) Featured artist — — Same French label that issued Yotam Silberstein's The Village
Born in Millennium Alan Bartuš featuring Gregory Hutchinson Not stated on the release 2023 Double Moon Records DMCHR71429 CD, Album Alan Bartuš (piano, compositions), Štefan "Pišta" Bartuš (electric upright bass), Gregory Hutchinson and Dávid Hodek (drums) Featured artist — — Slovak piano trio. Two drummers credited; the split by track is not itemized on the pressing

Also indexed under "Main" and not treated as a leader date here: Esperanto (Lalo Schifrin with the WDR Big Band Cologne, 2000), a large-ensemble project on which Hutchinson is one of nine billed soloists alongside Trilok Gurtu, James Morrison, Don Byron and Jean-Luc Ponty; Zuversicht (Nils Wülker, Warner Music Central Europe 5021732957177, January 30, 2026), billed to Wülker with Aaron Parks, Linda May Han Oh and Hutchinson; and Ray Brown Trio's Live at Scullers, which is a Ray Brown leader date and appears in the sideman table.

As Sideman (selected major credits)

Year Project (Leader) Title Label Catalog Role Notes
1990 Betty Carter Droppin' Things Verve 843 991-2 Drums Recorded live at The Bottom Line, New York, May 25-26, 1990, except "Stardust / Memories of You," cut at Mastersound on June 7, 1990. With Freddie Hubbard (trumpet), Craig Handy (tenor), Geri Allen and Marc Cary (piano), Tarus Mateen (bass). Hutchinson's first album credit, at nineteen. Spotify
1991 Eric Reed Soldier's Hymn: Dedicated to Art Blakey Candid CCD79511 Drums Recorded at The Hit Factory, New York, November 7, 1990. Trio with Reed and Dwayne Burno. The first of six Eric Reed albums
1992 Joe Henderson Lush Life: The Music of Billy Strayhorn Verve 314-511-779-2 Drums Recorded September 3, 6 and 8, 1991 at Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, engineered by Rudy Van Gelder; a US promo appeared in 1991 and the commercial release on February 18, 1992. With Christian McBride, Stephen Scott and Wynton Marsalis. The album that got Hutchinson noticed; Gary Giddins called his playing on it "elegant and dancing." Spotify
1992 Roy Hargrove Quintet The Vibe Novus / RCA 01241 63132-2 Drums With Antonio Hart, Rodney Whitaker, Marc Cary, Jack McDuff on B3, Branford Marsalis and David "Fathead" Newman. Billed "Roy Hargrove" on the cover and "Roy Hargrove Quintet" on the back
1992 Antonio Hart Don't You Know I Care Novus / RCA 01241 63142-2 Drums With Gary Bartz, Rodney Whitaker, Aaron Graves, Darren Barrett
1993 Joshua Redman Joshua Redman Warner Bros. 9 45242-2 Drums Redman's debut. Hutchinson is one of three drummers, with Clarence Penn and Kenny Washington, his own former teacher. Also Christian McBride, Kevin Hays, Mike LeDonne
1993 Roy Hargrove Quintet Of Kindred Souls Novus / RCA 01241 63154-2 Drums, mixing With Gary Bartz, Ron Blake, Rodney Whitaker, Marc Cary, Andre Hayward. Hutchinson is credited on the sleeve as one of five people who mixed the record, alongside Ed Rak, Hargrove, Larry Clothier and Troy Henderson
1994 Greg Gisbert Quintet Harcology Criss Cross Jazz Criss 1084 CD Drums Recorded December 28, 1992 at RPM Studio, New York. With Chris Potter, Dwayne Burno, John Campbell
1994 Roy Hargrove Quintet With the Tenors of Our Time Verve 314 523 019-2 Drums Recorded January 16-17, 1994 at Clinton Recording Studio, New York; released May 17, 1994. Guest tenors Johnny Griffin, Joe Henderson, Branford Marsalis, Joshua Redman and Stanley Turrentine. With Cyrus Chestnut and Rodney Whitaker. Spotify
1994 Johnny Griffin Chicago, New York, Paris Verve 314 527 367-2 Drums Recorded December 4-5, 1994 at RPM Studios, New York. Hutchinson and Victor Lewis split the drum chair; with Kenny Barron, Christian McBride, Rodney Whitaker and Roy Hargrove
1995 Roy Hargrove Family Verve 527 630-2 (Europe) Drums Recorded live to two-track, January 26-29, 1995. Hutchinson is one of four drummers, with Jimmy Cobb, Lewis Nash and Karriem Riggins; the cast also includes Wynton Marsalis, Christian McBride, John Hicks, Larry Willis and Stephen Scott. Read off the European pressing: the US CD (314 527 630-2), which Discogs uses as the master's main release, has a completely empty credit block
1995 Ray Brown Trio featuring Ulf Wakenius Seven Steps to Heaven Telarc Jazz CD-83384 Drums Recorded May 22-23, 1995, Sony Music Studios Studio B, New York; released November 14, 1995. Hutchinson's first album with Ray Brown, whose drum chair he took over from Jeff Hamilton. With Benny Green. Spotify
1995 Peter Bernstein Quartet Signs of Life Criss Cross Jazz Criss 1095 CD Drums Recorded December 17, 1994 at PRM Studio, New York. With Brad Mehldau and Christian McBride
1995 Steve Wilson Quintet Step Lively Criss Cross Jazz Criss 1096 CD Drums Recorded December 19, 1993. With Cyrus Chestnut, Freddie Bryant, Dennis Irwin
1995 Eric Reed The Swing and I MoJazz 314530468-2 Drums With Ben Wolfe and Rodney Whitaker on bass
1995 Mark Whitfield 7th Ave. Stroll Verve 314 529 223-2 Drums Released October 10, 1995. Hutchinson and Al Foster split the drums; with Tommy Flanagan, Stephen Scott, Christian McBride and Dave Holland
1996 Jimmy Smith Angel Eyes (Ballads & Slow Jams) Verve 314 527 632-2 Drums Recorded January 25-26, 1995 at Power Station, New York. With Roy Hargrove, Nicholas Payton, Mark Whitfield and Christian McBride
1996 Rodney Whitaker Children of the Light DIW DIW-907 Drums Recorded September 13-14, 1995 at Power Station, New York. Hutchinson and Karriem Riggins on drums; with Geri Allen, Cyrus Chestnut, Nicholas Payton, Wallace Roney and James Carter
1996 Eric Reed Musicale Impulse! IMPD-196 Drums Recorded March 10 and April 19, 1996 at Power Station. With Ron Carter, Ben Wolfe, Wycliffe Gordon, Nicholas Payton, Wessell Anderson
1996 Teodross Avery My Generation Impulse! IMPD-181 Drums Recorded October 10-12, 1995 at Power Station Studio A. Three guitarists: John Scofield, Peter Bernstein and Mark Whitfield. With Rodney Whitaker
1996 Arturo Sandoval Swingin' GRP GRP 98462 Drums Recorded January 6-9, 1996. This one session accounts for four separate names in Wikipedia's collaborator list: John Patitucci (bass), Michael Brecker (tenor), Joey Calderazzo (piano) and Sandoval himself. Also Clark Terry and Mike Stern
1996 Ray Brown Trio Some of My Best Friends Are... The Sax Players Telarc Jazz CD-83388 Drums Recorded at Power Station Studio A, New York, November 20-22, 1995, and Conway Studios Studio A, Los Angeles, February 13, 1996. Guests Benny Carter, Joe Lovano, Joshua Redman, Ralph Moore, Jesse Davis and Stanley Turrentine
1996 Kristin Korb with the Ray Brown Trio Introducing Kristin Korb Telarc Jazz CD-83386 Drums Recorded July 31 and August 1-2, 1995 at O'Henry Studios, Los Angeles; mixed April 1996 in Cleveland. With Benny Green, Plas Johnson, Conte Candoli, Oscar Castro-Neves
1996 Betty Carter I'm Yours, You're Mine Verve 314 533 182-2 Drums Recorded January 24-25, 1996. Carter's penultimate studio album. With Xavier Davis, Curtis Lundy, Mark Shim, Andre Hayward
1996 Concord Jazz Festival All-Stars / Karrin Allyson / Scott Hamilton Quintet Fujitsu-Concord 27th Jazz Festival Concord CCD-7004 Performer (drums) Hutchinson is listed among the All-Stars alongside Ray Brown, Benny Green, Louis Bellson, Howard Alden, Chris Potter and Rickey Woodard
1997 Ray Brown Trio Live at Scullers Telarc Jazz CD-83405 Drums Recorded live at Scullers Jazz Club, Boston, October 17-18, 1996. Trio with Ray Brown and Benny Green, seven tracks, 56:09
1997 Ray Brown with John Clayton and Christian McBride SuperBass Telarc Jazz CD-83393 Drums Same Scullers nights, October 17-18, 1996. Three basses: Ray Brown, John Clayton and Christian McBride, with Benny Green
1997 Claire Martin Make This City Ours Linn Records AKD 066 Drums Recorded October 7-8, 1996. With Peter Washington, Gareth Williams, Gerard Presencer, Antonio Hart
1998 Ben Wolfe Bagdad Theater Mons Records MR874-827 Drums Recorded at Sony Music Studios, New York, December 23, 1997. With Benny Green, Joe Magnarelli, Ned Goold, Dave Schumacher and Israeli trombonist Avi Lebovich
1998 Oscar Peterson and Benny Green Oscar & Benny Telarc CD-83406 Drums Two pianos, Ray Brown on bass, Hutchinson on drums, eleven tracks
1998 Christian McBride A Family Affair Verve 314 557 554-2 Drums Recorded January 27-31, 1998 at O'Henry Studios, Los Angeles; produced by George Duke. With Russell Malone, Tim Warfield, Charles Craig
1998 Ray Brown Trio with Ulf Wakenius Summertime Telarc Jazz CD-83430 Drums Recorded at Sony Music Studios, New York, August 26-28, 1997. With Geoff Keezer
1998 Eric Reed Pure Imagination Impulse! IMP 12592 Drums Released March 3, 1998. Trio with Reed and Reginald Veal
1999 Ray Brown Trio Christmas Songs with the Ray Brown Trio Telarc CD-83437 Drums Recorded at O'Henry Studios, Burbank, December 15-17, 1997 and Sony Music Studios, New York, April 27-29, 1998. Eight guest singers: Dee Dee Bridgewater, Etta Jones, Nancy King, Diana Krall, Kevin Mahogany, Vanessa Rubin and Marlena Shaw
2000 Joshua Redman Beyond Warner Bros. 9362-47465-2 Drums Recorded at Avatar Studios, New York, May 1999; released April 4, 2000. The quartet with Aaron Goldberg and Reuben Rogers, guest Mark Turner. Spotify
2001 Dianne Reeves The Calling (Celebrating Sarah Vaughan) Blue Note 7243 5 27694 2 1 Drums Recorded September 9-11, 2000 at O'Henry Studio, Burbank. Arranged and conducted by Billy Childs, with Russell Malone, Romero Lubambo, Reginald Veal, Steve Wilson and strings. Won the Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Album at the 2002 ceremony
2001 Joshua Redman Quartet Passage of Time Warner Bros. 9 47997-2 Drums The same quartet as Beyond, a single continuous suite
2002 Ray Brown, Monty Alexander, Russell Malone Ray Brown / Monty Alexander / Russell Malone Telarc Jazz CD-83562 Drums Direct Stream Digital recording. Hutchinson is one of four drummers across the set, with Jeff Hamilton, Lewis Nash and Karriem Riggins; pianists Monty Alexander, Ahmad Jamal, Benny Green and Geoff Keezer
2003 Ray Brown Walk On: The Final Ray Brown Trio Recording Telarc Jazz 2CD-83515 Drums Released July 22, 2003, a year after Brown's death. Disc one recorded at Avatar Studios Studio A, New York, January 10-14, 2000; disc two drawn from the Scullers nights of October 17-18, 1996 and from Clinton Studios
2003 Ron Blake Lest We Forget Mack Avenue 1012 Drums With Christian McBride, Joey DeFrancesco, David Gilmore, Rashawn Ross
2004 Ryan Kisor Donna Lee Videoarts Music VACM-1239 Drums Recorded at Chung King Studio, New York, November 25, 2003; released February 25, 2004. Organ quartet with Sam Yahel and Peter Bernstein
2006 Reuben Rogers The Things I Am Renwick Entertainment RE-01 Drums Released October 22, 2006. With Joshua Redman, Nicholas Payton, Ron Blake, Aaron Goldberg, Mark Whitfield, David Gilmore, Adam Cruz
2006 Javon Jackson Now Palmetto PM2121 Drums With Dr. Lonnie Smith on organ, David Gilmore, Kenny Davis, Lisa Fischer
2008 Ben Wolfe No Strangers Here MAXJAZZ MXJ 605 Drums Hutchinson and Jeff "Tain" Watts on drums; with Branford Marsalis, Marcus Strickland, Terell Stafford, Victor Goines, Luis Perdomo
2009 Joshua Redman Compass Nonesuch 7559-79923-0 Drums A double-trio record: Hutchinson and Brian Blade on drums, Reuben Rogers and Larry Grenadier on bass
2010 Jimmy Greene Quartet Live at Smalls SmallsLIVE SL-0012 Drums Recorded live February 19-20, 2010 at Smalls Jazz Club, Greenwich Village. With Xavier Davis and Ugonna Okegwo
2010 Ben Wolfe Quintet Live at Smalls SmallsLIVE SL-0015 Drums Recorded live May 25-26, 2010 at Smalls. With Ryan Kisor, Marcus Strickland, Luis Perdomo
2010 Yotam Silberstein Resonance Jazz Legacy Productions 1001008 Drums With Silberstein (guitar, voice, oud), Aaron Goldberg, Christian McBride and Roy Hargrove on trumpet on tracks 4 and 10. The Discogs pressing carries no musician credits at all; personnel confirmed off Silberstein's official site, yotammusic.com. Spotify
2010 Dida Pelled Plays and Sings Red Record 319 Drums The Israeli guitarist's debut, with Tal Ronen, Roy Hargrove and Fabio Morgera
2011 3 Cohens Family Anzic Records ANZ7002 Drums With Anat Cohen (tenor, clarinet), Avishai Cohen (trumpet), Yuval Cohen (soprano), Aaron Goldberg, Matt Penman and Jon Hendricks
2011 Warren Wolf Warren Wolf Mack Avenue MAC 1059 Drums With Christian McBride, Peter Martin, Jeremy Pelt, Tim Green
2013 Kathy Kosins The Space Between Self-released MJ12227 Drums Hutchinson and Eric Harland split the drum chair; with Reuben Rogers, Aaron Goldberg, Tamir Hendelman, Robert Hurst
2014 Eric Reed Groovewise Smoke Sessions SSR 1410 Drums Quartet with Seamus Blake and Ben Williams
2015 Ameen Saleem The Groove Lab Jando Music VVJ 103 Drums With Roy Hargrove, Cyrus Chestnut, Stacy Dillard, Craig Magnano
2016 Yotam Silberstein The Village Jazz&People JPCD816007 Drums Released December 2, 2016. Quartet with Silberstein, Aaron Goldberg and Reuben Rogers, eleven tracks. The streaming edition is billed to all four players, not to Silberstein alone. Spotify
2016 Dan Pratt Hymn for the Happy Man Same Island Music SIM1601 Drums With Christian McBride and Mike Eckroth
2017 Sarah McKenzie Paris in the Rain Impulse! 0602557282436 Drums Released January 13, 2017. With Reuben Rogers, Mark Whitfield, Romero Lubambo, Warren Wolf, Ralph Moore, Scott Robinson
2018 Emanuele Cisi No Eyes: Looking at Lester Young Warner Music Italy 5054197008115 Drums With Rosario Bonaccorso, Dino Rubino and Roberta Gambarini
2019 Joshua Redman Quartet Come What May Nonesuch 585291-2 Drums Released March 29, 2019. The Beyond / Passage of Time quartet reconvened after eighteen years, all compositions by Redman
2019 Jacky Terrasson 53 Blue Note 0808196 Drums Hutchinson is one of three drummers, with Ali Jackson and Lukmil Pérez
2019 Soweto Kinch The Black Peril Soweto Kinch Recordings (none) Drums A large-ensemble suite on the 1919 race riots
2020 Kurt Rosenwinkel Trio Angels Around Heartcore Records HCR08 Drums Released May 8, 2020. Trio with Rosenwinkel and Dario Deidda. Spotify
2020 Aaron Diehl The Vagabond Mack Avenue MAC 1153 Drums Recorded February 4-6, 2019; released February 14, 2020. Trio with Diehl and Paul Sikivie
2020 Dayna Stephens Quartet Right Now! Live at the Village Vanguard Contagious Music CGM005 Drums With Aaron Parks and Ben Street
2022 Theo Croker Quartet Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic XII: Sketches of Miles ACT ACT 9948-2 Drums Live at the Philharmonie Berlin, November 27, 2021; released August 26, 2022. Quartet plus Berlin Philharmonic wind players
2022 Magnus Lindgren and Georg Breinschmid Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic XIII: Celebrating Mingus 100 ACT ACT 9955-2 Drums Live at the Kammermusiksaal, Philharmonie Berlin, April 13, 2022; released June 24, 2022
2023 Roy Hargrove The Love Suite: In Mahogany Blue Engine Records (none) Drums Released October 13, 2023, recorded in 1993 at Alice Tully Hall as part of the Jazz at Lincoln Center season. Hargrove's commissioned suite, unissued for thirty years. With Rodney Whitaker, Marc Cary, Ron Blake, Jesse Davis, Andre Hayward
2024 Joe Sanders Parallels Whirlwind Recordings WR4827 Drums With Taylor Eigsti, Logan Richardson, Jure Pukl, Seamus Blake. Sanders is the bassist on Hutchinson's own Kind of Now
2025 Dayna Stephens Hopium Contagious Music (none) Drums Recorded February 26, 2022, mixed and mastered October 14, 2024, released February 7, 2025. Quartet with Aaron Parks and Ben Street
2026 Nils Wülker Zuversicht Warner Music Central Europe 5021732957177 Drums Released January 30, 2026. Quartet with Wülker (trumpet, flugelhorn), Aaron Parks and Linda May Han Oh

Credits excluded, and why

Errors found in Wikipedia's article

The English Wikipedia article on Hutchinson is a stub, and its problems are mostly omissions. Recorded here so the profile does not repeat them.

  1. Da Bang is absent. The article's only leader-album sentence is "In April 2026 he released an album under his own name at Warner Music Arts: Kind of Now: The Pulse of Miles Davis," which reads as if that were his first. It is his second. Da Bang (Warner, September 29, 2023) was the record the press universally called his debut.
  2. Kind of Now's personnel is incomplete. The article lists five sidemen. The pressing credits seven players, adding Ron Blake on tenor saxophone and bass clarinet, plus Christian McBride's liner notes.
  3. The collaborator list is a straight lift from the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, unchecked. Two of its names, Frank Wess and Marcus Printup, produced no confirmable credit, and four others (Arturo Sandoval, John Patitucci, Joey Calderazzo, Michael Brecker) all come from a single 1996 session rather than four separate associations.
  4. The Red Rodney sentence is technically true and practically misleading. "Began his career playing with Red Rodney in 1989-1990" is what the sources say, but no recording came out of it, and the article's placement of it as the first entry in a list of recorded collaborations invites the wrong inference.
  5. No mention of Rome. Hutchinson has been based in Italy for several years, which is why a large block of his post-2015 catalog is on Italian, French and central European labels. The article still reads as a New York biography.

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