While many record Albums entertain us, there are albums that seem to quietly invite us into the private landscape of the person who created them. Randy Edelman’s new album Green Park belongs to the latter.
Released September 25, 2026 through Cherry Red Records, Green Park is a collection of ten original compositions written, performed and produced by Edelman. Recorded in Los Angeles and partly mixed at the legendary Abbey Road Studios in London, the album draws its inspiration from memories, observations and experiences accumulated over a lifetime — particularly Edelman’s enduring connection to London and its beautiful Green Park.
But Green Park is about much more than a place.
It is about memory. Time. People. Loss and resilience. The strange way certain places remain inside us long after we have left them, and the way music can somehow retrieve feelings that words cannot quite reach.
That may be what makes Green Park so affecting.
For more than five decades, Edelman has written melodies that have accompanied other people’s stories. His film work includes The Last of the Mohicans, Dragonheart, Gettysburg, The Mask, My Cousin Vinny, Ghostbusters II and Kindergarten Cop, while his songs have been recorded by artists including Barry Manilow, Patti LaBelle and The Carpenters.
On Green Park, however, the story feels much closer to home.
From the opening title composition through After All The Madness, Watching And Wishing, Farewell To Down St., Paranoid Partner, 12 Steps (Serenity Prayer), Flyin’ Blind, Piano Please, To Find You and finally Short Walk In Green Park, there is a sense of someone looking both backward and forward at the same time.
The melodies are unmistakably Edelman — elegant without being showy, emotional without demanding emotion from the listener. There is tenderness here, but there is also wisdom. Green Park does not sound like an artist trying to prove what he can do. It sounds like an artist who already knows exactly who he is.
Perhaps that is its greatest strength.
After a career spent writing music on an enormous scale, Edelman has created something remarkably intimate. Green Park feels less like a declaration than a conversation — sometimes nostalgic, sometimes playful, sometimes wistful, and at moments almost painfully beautiful.
And perhaps there could be no more appropriate setting for the next chapter than Carnegie Hall.
On Saturday, December 19, 2026, Randy Edelman returns to Carnegie Hall with Randy Edelman: American Original, marking the third Carnegie Hall appearance of his career. The evening will strip everything back to its essence: Edelman, his piano, his voice, his music and the stories accumulated across an extraordinary career.
There is something especially meaningful about the timing.
Green Park looks inward. Carnegie Hall will allow Edelman to share that journey outward — with an audience that has followed his melodies through movies, records, radio, concert halls and decades of their own lives.
For an artist whose music has so often provided the soundtrack to someone else’s memories, Green Park gives us the rare opportunity to hear something closer to Randy Edelman’s own.
And when he walks onto the Carnegie Hall stage on December 19, there will be no need for spectacle.
One man. One piano. A lifetime of melodies.
And perhaps, somewhere within them, a quiet walk through Green Park.