Joshua Redman

MoodSwing

Joshua Redman · 1994

MoodSwing (1994) captured these four in the middle of their separate ascents. MehldauBrad Mehldauブラッド・メルドー, McBrideChristian McBrideクリスチャン・マクブライド, and BladeBrian Bladeブライアン・ブレイド each went on to build defining careers of their own. In 2020 the same band reunited as RoundAgain.

Spirit Fiction

Joshua Redman · 2012

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.

2024 — Joshua RedmanJoshua Redmanジョシュア・レッドマン's first Tiny Desk. Music from his Blue Note debut 'where are we' with vocalist Gabrielle Cavassa, extending the album's theme of American place.

— NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert, 2024

Joshua RedmanJoshua Redmanジョシュア・レッドマン with The Bad Plus (Iverson, Anderson, King) at Jazz à la Villette 2014, distributed via Qwest TV.

— Joshua Redman & The Bad Plus - Live au Festival Jazz a la Villette, Qwest TV, 2014

The Yussef DayesYussef Dayesユセフ・デイズ Experience performs in Joshua RedmanJoshua Redmanジョシュア・レッドマン Tree National Park, presented by Soulection and released via Clifford BrownClifford Brownクリフォード・ブラウンswood Recordings.

— The Yussef Dayes Experience - Live at Joshua Tree, 2022

On 2005's Deep Song, Kurt RosenwinkelKurt Rosenwinkelカート・ローゼンウィンケル added Mark TurnerMark Turnerマーク・ターナー and Joshua RedmanJoshua Redmanジョシュア・レッドマン for a twin-horn front line and wrote contrapuntal themes — the apex of his thinking in chord blocks rather than single notes.

— Deep Song (album), Wikipedia, 2024

In 1989, the 17-year-old Christian McBrideChristian McBrideクリスチャン・マクブライド moved to New York for Juilliard and quickly became the go-to bassist for Roy HargroveRoy Hargroveロイ・ハーグローブ and Joshua RedmanJoshua Redmanジョシュア・レッドマン's generation of quartets.

— Christian McBride's New Jawn, JAZZIZ, 2020

StandArt's guest list included Mark TurnerMark Turnerマーク・ターナー, Joshua RedmanJoshua Redmanジョシュア・レッドマン, and Ambrose AkinmusireAmbrose Akinmusireアンブローズ・アキンムシーレ. According to JAZZIZ, Tigran HamasyanTigran Hamasyanティグラン・ハマシアン rewrote the modulation keys to fit each guest's range, while keeping the rhythmic engine of Matt Brewer and Justin BrownJustin Brownジャスティン・ブラウン unchanged.

— Tigran Hamasyan: StandArt and the Living Tradition, JAZZIZ, 2022

Youngblood

Elvin Jones · 1992

MoodSwing

Joshua Redman · 1994

Momentum

Joshua Redman · 2005

Spirit Fiction

Joshua Redman · 2012

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).

80/81

Pat Metheny · 1980

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

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.

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.

Harvard Magazine

Saxophonist Joshua Redman's sonorous voice on tenor

2013-08-16

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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.

Harvard Magazine

Saxophonist Joshua Redman's sonorous voice on tenor

2013-08-16

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I realized almost immediately that this band wouldn't stay together for very long. They were without a doubt, for our generation, among the most accomplished and innovative on their respective instruments.

On the 2020 reunion of his 1994 quartet, describing why the original band with Mehldau, McBride and Blade could not last.

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.

At the bar. Mina showed up after a night shift. On the walk from work to here being the best part of the day.