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SENIOR EDITORS: Christopher Redman, George Russell, John Saar...
Senior Editors: Christopher Redman, George Russell, John Saar...
...Redman's fluency as a soloist is drawing comparisons to the young Sonny Rollins. Premature, of course, but it's been a long time since jazz produced a saxophonist with Redman's fearless improvisational skill and mature melodic sense. At 24, Redman already has plenty of name recognition. His father, Dewey Redman, made a reputation in the late 1960s as a saxophonist playing alongside Ornette Coleman. "But he wasn't a direct teacher or mentor," says Joshua, who, remarkably, taught himself by playing along with old records while growing up in Berkeley, California. Dewey moved to New York City before...
...Ideas come fast to Joshua Redman. On The Deserving Many, a song from the young tenor saxophonist's fine new album, Wish, he starts off with a few buoyant, tinkling notes, then suddenly scatters them into a jagged, descending riff, surging along it at breakneck speed. Then, quickly interweaving a flurry of growling notes with an exciting upper-octave peal, he is swept up by a new set of ideas that carry him back to his original melody...
...after being accepted at Harvard. There, to break up the day-to-day Ivy League grind, he spent hours learning riffs from recordings of great saxophonists like Charlie Parker and John Coltrane, and gigged with friends around town. Two years ago, Yale Law School accepted him, but Redman put them off. By then he was too busy playing New York's tough club circuit, where he's been royally welcomed. Yale could be in for quite a wait...