Ian Kenselaar

Reddish Fetish: Llegue

by Jack Bowers
July 5, 2025

Once the opening number is discounted as an anomaly, Llegue (pronounced yeh-geh) is a generally pleasing debut recording by the New Jersey-based Reddish Fetish octet, led by drummer Jason Reddish and featuring the Jersey City All-Stars. Reddish Fetish is the fresh incarnation of a group established in the late 1960s by the leader's father, saxophonist Bill Reddish, that blended elements of jazz, rock, avant-garde and world music (as does its present-day replica) to produce its own personal sound. But that ...