Come What May, the new Joshua Redman Quartet album, is out today on @NonesuchRecords.

Buy the record and watch the video for "How We Do" here: https://t.co/jdf47KWNmO #comewhatmay pic.twitter.com/SKCk1EmIfr

— Joshua Redman (@Joshua_Redman) March 29, 2019

Joshua Redman's Still Dreaming

NOW AVAILABLE: Joshua Redman's Still Dreaming on August 3 in Stanford's fabulous Bing Concert Hall. Check out Joshua himself talking about this project, which @JazzTimes says "simply radiates joy" and buy your tickets before they sell out: https://t.co/KXkNFpjykT pic.twitter.com/yNchlYL6A3

— Stanford Jazz (@stanfordjazz) March 22, 2019

Jazz icons #JoshuaRedman and #BradMehldau

Jazz icons Joshua Redman and Brad Mehldau essay Nearness on new live duo recordings from @NonesuchRecords https://t.co/F1m6XevaxF pic.twitter.com/vNUmaQs8JW

— Culture on RTÉ (@RTE_Culture) 6 de novembro de 2016

Joshua Redman

Since winning the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Saxophone Competition in 1991, saxophonist Joshua Redman has... https://t.co/AjdubjtX94

— Peter McConnell (@jazzstagenet) June 22, 2016

WDR Big Band feat. Joshua Redman

Published on Jan 15, 2016

"Subject to Change" was the title of the concert project in which Joshua Redman was in January 2015. Staying with the WDR Big Band. The concert at the WDR Funkhaus headed by the Principal Conductor Richard DeRosa walked on the live video stream in worldwideweb. Here the title "Yesterdays" with an arrangement for the WDR Big Band of Daniel Jamieson. Soli played Karolina Strassmayer and Joshua Redman.

Milt Jackson 1923-1999: A Tribute

Uploaded on Aug 22, 2010
Vibraphonist Milt Jackson performing Jimmy Heath's "Bopag'in" with Jesse Davis [alto saxophone], Joshua Redman [tenor saxophone], Nicholas Payton [trumpet], Benny Green [piano], Christian McBride [bass], and Kenny Washington [drums].

First Listen: Joshua Redman & The Bad Plus, 'The Bad Plus Joshua Redman'

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MAY 17, 201511:03 PM ET
by Tom Moon
For the last two years, pianist Ethan Iverson has been at the center of what looks, in hindsight, like a serious creative whirlwind. He re-conceptualized Stravinsky's ballet The Rite Of Spring in its entirety (!) for his trio The Bad Plus, and then, for good measure, recorded an album of all-original Bad Plus music (Inevitable Western). He recorded two crisply swinging trio albums with the drummer and jazz elder Albert "Tootie" Heath. He anchored the acclaimed quartet led by drummer Billy Hart (the group's 2014 release One Is The Other turned up on many best-of lists), and was part of another multi-generation group with pioneering saxophonist Lee Konitz. All while writing Do The Math, one of the most lucid, carefully reasoned blogs on contemporary music.

The work ethic is impressive, and arguably unique. But what makes Iverson extraordinary is the focused way he's managed these endeavors: He understands that each project has its own demands, aspirations and intended audience. He keeps things separate, drawing clear distinctions between his brainier compositional forays and his more reverential, sometimes scholarly investigations of jazz tradition. He does his serious innovating alongside bassist Reid Anderson and drummer Dave King in The Bad Plus, then gets his jazz on with the hot shots and legends who understand all his zany references and inside jokes.

read more: http://www.npr.org/2015/05/17/406446091/first-listen-joshua-redman-the-bad-plus-the-bad-plus-joshua-redman?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=storiesfromnpr

Joshua Redman - Montreal Trifecta

Joshua Redman - Montreal Trifecta

By Ed Enright
Montreal was the first jazz festival Joshua Redman played. In fact, the 1991 edition of the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal (FIJM) was one of the pedigreed saxophonist’s very first professional gigs.

“I had just graduated college, and I played here with my father,” remembered Redman, a fairly regular visitor to FIJM who returned this summer to perform a three-part Invitation Series of concerts featuring three different ensembles. “This year is the first time I can remember having been here for more than one night. It’s a class act, and the audiences can be really fantastic here—hip and respectful, but not too cool.”

Redman could hardly find a more receptive environment than Montreal in which to conduct his most recent explorations—the boldest of which is a double trio, as featured on his latest CD, Compass (Nonesuch). He regarded his extended stay here as a luxury, a chance to connect onstage with some of his favorite musicians and best friends, and maybe even catch a concert or two. But Redman also acknowledged the thrill and challenge of performing with a different group of musicians every night.
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Joshua Redman, Jazz Warriors and Guy Barker for Gateshead

Five years old this year, the Gateshead Jazz Festival has become one of the most important jazz festivals in the UK. Hosted by the magnificent Sage venue this year’s fest takes place from 20-22 March and the line-up includes Joshua Redman, Guy Barker, Jazz Warriors Afropeans, Ian Shaw, Sheila Jordan, Cleveland Watkiss, The Final Terror, Trio VD, Tom Bancroft, Nik Bärtsch’s Ronin, Marcin Wasilewski Trio and Alan Barnes.
http://www.jazzwisemagazine.com/

Joshua Redman vs James Carter Live At Carnegie Hall

Joshua Redman charts a new direction with "compass"

A marquee name on the contemporary jazz scene since winning the Thelonious Monk Institute's Jazz Saxophone Competition in 1991, Joshua Redman has played electric, acoustic, rock, funk and just about every musical style fit for a celebrated jazz saxophonist. But before his new album, "Compass," due out this week, Redman had never performed in an acoustic "double-trio" setting, an unconventional, rhythm-heavy configuration where a soloist is backed by two drummers and two bassists.

Redman kept hearing a voice in his head propelling him to give the formation a try, but he wasn't optimistic.
"No joke, when we went into the recording session I thought there was a high probability that none of the double-trio tunes would make the record," said Redman, who called upon frequent collaborators Brian Blade, Larry Grenadier, Reuben Rogers and Gregory Hutchinson for the album. "I thought we wouldn't even end up playing any tunes because it would be so raucous and crazy."

Instead nearly half of the record sprang out of the double-trio format, and they're the album's most striking pieces. Framed by such a complicated web of sound and rhythm, Redman's playing -- always tasteful and technically beautiful -- sounds daring and freshly recharged on tracks such as "Just Like You" and "Little Ditty."

Even outside of the new configuration, "Compass" finds Redman and his band stretching out with flashes of unpredictability and raw emotion. Those traits rose out of Redman opening himself up to a greater emphasis on free playing or improvisation, unmarried to a rhythmic or harmonic structure.

"One thing that doing this record taught me was in a weird way I realized I often have a little bit more of an agenda going into a recording project than I think I have," Redman admitted. "And because I had no experience playing in this format . . . whatever vision there might have been, it just couldn't exist. There was no vision. It was definitely an exercise in letting go on a lot of different levels."

Another product of the double-trio format was a reworking of Beethoven's "Moonlight" Sonata, the album's brooding centerpiece. Full of dark spaces and sorrow, the song was nearly left off the album in part out of Redman's concern for what listeners might read into his choice to interpret such a classical standard but also what his understated interpretation might say about him.

"There's a lot of aspects to my performance that in the past I would've been like, 'Absolutely not, there's no way this is going on the record. This doesn't show me as a saxophonist in a strong, confident way,' " Redman admits. "But I think it's for precisely those reasons that I felt it was appropriate. There's a certain fragility and vulnerability that comes through. . . ."

--Chris Barton
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/

Joshua Redman and Guy Barker for Gateshead

The first major jazz festival in the UK of 2009, the Gateshead Jazz Festival, is to take place on 20-22 March at the Sage with a line-up including early bookings Guy Barker’s Jazz Orchestra, Courtney Pine, Ian Shaw, Sheila Jordan, Cleveland Watkiss, Joshua Redman Trio, John Warren’s Splinter Group, Marcin Wasilewski, Alan Barnes and Jambone, plus The Jazz Lounge, Jam Sessions, DJ sets, free Concourse performances, workshops and masterclasses.
http://www.jazzwisemagazine.com/