| 100 Essential Jazz Albums |
| The New Yorker 05.19.2008 |
| By David Remnick |
While finishing “Bird-Watcher,” a Profile of the jazz broadcaster and expert Phil Schaap, I thought it might be useful to compile a list of a hundred essential jazz albums, more as a guide for the uninitiated than as |
| Redman Returns Home |
| New York Sun 03.21.2008 |
| By Will Friedwald |
After years of trying to play the saxophone, one of the few things I retained is the sound of a low B flat: It's hard to forget, because it's the bottom note on the horn and it must |
| Soaring Saxophones and American Gothic |
| New York Times 12.23.2007 |
| By Ben Ratliff |
JOSHUA REDMAN: BACK EAST (Nonesuch). A tenor saxophone-bass-drums trio in jazz means a rugged structural challenge, and possibly an exercise in nostalgia, as it was more or less trademarked and sewed up by Sonny Rollins 50 years ago. |
| A Jazzman's Farewell and a Rock Manifesto |
| New York Times 12.23.2007 |
| By Nate Chinen |
JOSHUA REDMAN: BACK EAST (Nonesuch). This tenor and soprano saxophonist has never sounded more at ease than he does here, engaging with a few different bass-and-drum teams. A fleeting taste of his father, the saxophonist Dewey Redman, in |
| Goin' Down South |
| Jazztimes 12.01.2007 |
| By Gary Giddins |
Sometimes you have to leave home to find yourself most at home. My recent trip to Brazil, culminating with the sixth annual Festival Tudo é Jazz in Ouro Preto (Sept. 13-16), provided a too brief but intense immersion in |
| London Jazz Festival: 192 sound reasons to seek broader horizons |
| The Observer 11.25.2007 |
| By Dave Gelly |
From Jan Garbarek's elegant folk to the tenor sax of Joshua Redman, the London Jazz Festival provided some choice nights - and quite a few surprises. This year's London Jazz Festival, the 16th in an unbroken run, draws |
| Redman is a class apart |
| Evening Standard 11.23.2007 |
| By Jack Massarik |
At his best, Joshua Redman seems a class apart for technique, invention and artistry. This US maestro has contemporary saxophone covered. He can do screams, honks and circular-breathing arpeggios with the best of them but merely as adjuncts |
| Earning His Spurs: Joshua Redman finds himself in Sonny Rollins's Oklahoma!, OK! |
| The Village Voice 07.17.2007 |
| By Francis Davis |
Whatever your opinion of the movers and shakers of '60s and '70s free jazz, you can't say they didn't pass on good genes. Start with Ravi Coltrane, Nas (the son of cornetist Olu Dara), and Deval Patrick (governor |
