 In the early 1980s he performed with and produced three albums for folk singer-songwriter, Jim Post and founded the Randy Sabien Jazz Quintet.He went on to provide violin, mandolin, guitar and piano accompaniment for many other American singer/songwriters as well as recording his own albums.His first solo album with the Randy Sabien Jazz Quintet, "In a Fog", was released in 1983 on Flying Fish Records, and later re-released on Fiddlehead Music, the label he founded in 1989.