Jazz Articles about SFJAZZ Collective

SF Jazz Collective: The Inaugural Season Live 2004

by AAJ Staff
May 30, 2005

The SF Jazz Collective is an octet assembled by that former Young Lion and prize-winning saxophonist Joshua Redman, as part of his role as SF Jazz's Artistic Director. Each year, the Collective rehearses the music of a modern master selected by Redman, as well as original music from each band member. For their inaugural season, Redman chose Ornette Coleman. After three weeks of intensive rehearsal, the Collective went on tour, and the results were issued in this limited edition, three-CD ...

SFJazz Collective: SFJAZZ Collective

by John Kelman
May 23, 2005

Sometimes an artist receives too much exposure too early in his or her career. Case in point: saxophonist Joshua Redman, who became a leader too soon with his self-titled debut in '93. Granted he'd had some experience in the previous couple of years with father Dewey, as well as with drummer Paul Motian's Electric Bebop Band. But it seemed that things happened all too quickly; his second album, Wish, was an all-star affair with guitarist Pat Metheny, bassist Charlie Haden, ...

SFJAZZ Collective in Mountain View, CA

by Forrest Dylan Bryant
March 28, 2005

SFJAZZ, the presenting organization behind the San Francisco Jazz Festival, likes to think big. Perhaps no project exemplifies that thinking better than the SFJAZZ Collective, a jazz super group led by local residents Joshua Redman and Bobby Hutcherson. In their last Bay Area appearance before embarking on a national tour, the Collective dazzled a full house at the Mountain View Center for Performing Arts.

When SFJAZZ first announced the formation of the Collective prior to its 2004 Spring Season, there ...