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Joshua Redman Trio Headlines the UGA/Athens Twilight Jazz Festival, April 24-26,2008

April 9, 2008

First UGA/Athens Twilight Jazz Festival to be held April 25-26 in conjunction with Twilight Criterium in downtown Athens Visitors to the annual Twilight Criterium bicycle races in downtown Athens will get have a second chance to get jazzed up April 24-26. The 1st Annual UGA/Athens Twilight Jazz Festival will bring top national artists and local players ...

Joshua Redman: Back East

by Russ Musto
March 6, 2008

Saxophonist Joshua Redman's Back East is a multi-tiered concept album that simultaneously fêtes a person--Sonny Rollins; a place--the East--and a thing--the number three, while documenting the leader's continuing development as a saxophonist, composer and arranger. The date celebrates Rollins' classic Way Out West (OJC, 1957) somewhat ironically with its title and several songs associated with the ...

Back East

By Joshua Redman

Label: Nonesuch Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: The Surrey With the Fringe on Top; East of the Sun (and West of the Moon); Zarafah; Indian Song; I

Joshua Redman: Back East

by John Kelman
June 19, 2007

For Back East, his first all-acoustic album in six years, saxophonist Joshua Redman returns from the west coast to the Big Apple, collaborating with a group of largely New York-based musicians. But the album's title refers to more than geographic relocation. A series of songs--original and otherwise--reflect an interest in Eastern harmonies and rhythms, with a ...

Joshua Redman: Takes On The Challenge of the Trio

by R.J. DeLuke
May 28, 2007

Joshua Redman, one of the most consistently creative musicians of his generation, a fiend on whatever saxophone he chooses to pick up, and a thoughtful, imaginative person, is at it again.He's not re-inventing the wheel, he says with a chuckle when discussing Back East (Nonesuch, 2007). But this exploring musician has gone back to ...

The Long Way Home

Featuring the music of Joshua Redman
Duration: 3:38
September 5, 2006

Momentum

By Joshua Redman

Label: Nonesuch Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Soundcheck; Sweet Nasty; Just a Moment; Shut Your Mouth; The Crunge; Riverwide; Greasy G; Lonely Woman; Swunk; Blowing Changes; Double Jeopardy; Put It in Your Pocket; Showtime.

Joshua Redman Elastic Band: Momentum

by John Kelman
May 22, 2005

While some may pine for the glory days of the '50s when jazz was more “pure, the reality is that, artistically speaking at least, the present is a great time for jazz. A more cosmopolitan affair than ever before, jazz has seen younger artists grow up with exposure to so many styles of music--inside and outside ...

Joshua Redman: Music is Paramount

by R.J. DeLuke
November 2, 2004

It can be a burden, an unfair one at that, when jazz musicians are anointed as being among those to “carry the torch" into the future, to sustain and revitalize the music. Jazz music evolves, as it always has, like the ocean moves. The innovators and creators come and go, blessing the planet and leaving things ...

Joshua Redman Quartet

by Christopher Jones
March 13, 2004

Joshua Redman Quartet Yoshi's Oakland, CA In the liner notes to his 1996 album Freedom in the Groove, Joshua Redman wrote: Art, in the world of honest emotional experience, is never about absolutes, or favorites, or hierarchies, or “number ones.” The “desert island” scenario is wholly irrelevant to real-life tastes, choices, and attitudes. ...