Dewey Redman — Tenor Saxophone. Played on 80/81. Worked with Pat Metheny, Michael Brecker, Jack DeJohnette.
Dewey Redman's albums
Dewey Redman's only credit in this database is Pat Metheny's 80/81 (1980). His son Joshua Redman, who would become one of the most celebrated tenor players of his generation, later said that whenever his father took a solo, his own playing sounded like video game music by comparison.
— Statement stmt-joshua-redman-on-dewey-redman-2
About Dewey Redman
Charlie brought out the love in my father's playing: a warmth, tenderness and honesty that few others brought out to the same degree.
Spoken at bassist Charlie Haden's memorial, on what Haden drew out of his father Dewey Redman's playing.
About Dewey Redman
He had such a deep, warm, tenor-saxophone sound-it was really a voice for him. He'd start playing a solo, and it made what I was playing sound like video-game music.
On playing alongside his father Dewey Redman and realizing his own technique meant nothing next to Dewey's sound.
About Dewey Redman
It was one of the most inspiring and intimidating things, to play with my dad.
Recalling what it felt like to share the bandstand with his father, Dewey Redman.
About Dewey Redman
And my father is one of the most soulful musicians ever. I mean, he taught me about soul, and I hope, you know, someday to have 100th of the soul and wisdom in my sound that he has in his.
Talking about "GJ," the solo piece his father recorded for his grandson during the Back East sessions.
Joshua Redman