Jazz Articles about Dewey Redman

Dewey Redman Quartet: The Struggle Continues

by John Kelman
November 1, 2007

While he'll likely be remembered more as an avant-garde/free player, Dewey Redman was equally at home with a jazz waltz or a soulful blues as he was more experimental fare. The late tenor saxophonist made this crystal clear on 1982's The Struggle Continues, but it's never been available on CD until now. It's an album that proves you can't deny your roots, even as Redman takes many of them and gives them the slightest of twists.

Dewey Redman Quartet: The Struggle Continues

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 24, 2007

Non era mai stato ristampato in CD, The Struggle Continues, del sassofonista Dewey Redman e - complice forse la recente scomparsa del musicista - l'ECM riempie finalmente questo tassello mancante [fa forse sorridere il fatto che un disco veda la sua prima diffusione in CD quando questo medium è già sulla via del pensionamento, ma tant'è]. Nel 1982, al tempo della registrazione del disco, Redman aveva già da un po' lasciato il quartetto americano di Jarrett e si era tornato ...

Francois Carrier - Dewey Redman - Michel Donato - Ron Séguin - Michel Lambert: Open Spaces

by AAJ Italy Staff
July 12, 2007

Registrato dal vivo a Quebec City nell'autuno del 1999, questo lavoro in libera improvvisazione è impreziosito dalla presenza, accanto al sax contralto canadese Francois Carrier, del grande tenorsassofonista Dewey Redman, così che la sua pubblicazione oggi, a distanza di un anno circa dalla sua scomparsa, assume un significato ulteriore. Redman, che tra le altre sue molteplici esperienze annoverava collaborazioni con Ornette Coleman ed aveva sostituito il sassofonista di Forth Worth nel suo stesso quartetto originario (che, con il nome di ...

Dewey Redman

by Peter Madsen
May 30, 2006

There's a story about a saxophonist being approached by an excited fan after a concert to get his autograph. The fan asks him to sign a CD he says he had just bought of his. Happy to oblige he takes the CD, looks, and with mixed emotions sees that it's a CD recorded by his son, Joshua Redman. Of course this is a story about the brilliant and often under-appreciated saxophonist Dewey Redman. This is a telling tale of the ...

Dewey Redman w/ UNCG Jazz Band: The UNCG Jazz Ensemble Live with Dewey Redman

by Budd Kopman
February 13, 2005

If the quality of the playing and arranging by the students of the University of North Carolina (Greensboro) on this release is any indication of the jazz program in general, then jazz is going to be all right. Much has been made recently about the “Berklee phenomenon" where that school's graduates emerge as technicians with nothing to say. However, director Steve Haines has honed this ensemble into one lean, mean machine. The sectional work is impressively coherent, the rhythm section ...

Dewey Redman: The Sound of a Giant

by R.J. DeLuke
December 15, 2003

Dewey Redman has been on the scene for a long time, adding his musicianship to diverse musical settings with a long list of great jazz artists, and pursing his own challenging projects. It seems that each path he has taken, he has done so in a manner that speaks to who he is: straightforward and genuine.

Whether it's stomping out blues or bop, playing free with Ornette Coleman and Don Cherry, spicing up the work of Pat Metheny ...