Spirit Fiction

Spirit FictionSpirit FictionJoshua Redman · 2012 (2012) shows the maturity of the quartet Redman built through the 2000s. Eric HarlandEric Harlandエリック・ハーランド and Aaron ParksAaron Parksアーロン・パークス — both essential to different corners of contemporary jazz — converge in Redman's compositions.

Joshua Redman was set to enter Yale Law School in 1991 when he won the Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition instead and abandoned law. The following year, before releasing anything under his own name, he turned up as an unknown sideman on Elvin Jones's Youngblood (1992).

Aaron Parks plays keys on Flow (2005) — a name in the small print on someone else's record. He had entered university at 14 and joined that band while still a teenager; his own Invisible Cinema came three years later, in 2008. The sideman credit is the earlier one.