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...decided to pursue music as a career, Redman realized that it was time to fill the holes in his technique and started to buckle down. Until that point, Redman had been almost entirely self-taught. He grew up in Berkeley, Calif. with his mother, a dancer named Renee Shedroff. His father, though, was legendary jazz saxophonist Dewey Redman.Dewey was more a musical influence on Redman than a parental influence. Redman grew up listening to his records and seeing his father’s gigs when he played in San Francisco. When Redman decided to go into music...
...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 Joshua was born and never saw much of his son. Joshua's mother, Renee Shedroff, an amateur dancer, put food on the table by working as a librarian, and had time to encourage her son to experiment with guitar and piano...
...about this time next year, Shedroff anticipates a time of reckoning, when he will choose either to continue pursuing his dream of becoming a jazz saxophonist or taking up Yale's offer and becoming a lawyer...
...never took my horn home," he confesses. "I didn't really start playing jazz until I got out here." Although his high school jazz band won state competitions in California, Shedroff ascribes their success to that fact that "we were a little bit less clueless than the rest of them...
...through high school and to this day, Shedroff has never taken formal music lessons. "To learn jazz, you listen to records and learn from the masters," he explains...