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You want something new? Try some Joshua Redman, just excellent. He has quite a few albums out but he is the new guard of real jazz. Right up there with Roy Hargrove and Christian Scott.

Christian McBride usually shows up for a few tracks. Flea and Meshelle Ndegeocello too.

http://store.acousticsounds.com/a/18412/Joshua_Redman

PoppaC...I am very aware of Joshua Redman...I have followed his musical career from when he won that award...I think it was the Thelonious Monk award for best new musician in 1991. I've had his "Wish" album and his "Mood Swings" album and now have his "Back East" CD. I've also got a very good CD by Milt Jackson with Joshua on it as well as the great Joe Williams Cedar Walton and John Clayton on bass...every body on that CD is dead but Clayton who is an older man still jamming and Joshua...so you see what kinda respect Joshua gets...that tells you a lot about his skills on sax.

Joshua is but a "chip off the old block" as they use to say. I loved his dad even more. His dad was a member of Ornette Colman's group during the 60's an 70's and then Was one of the original memebers of Keith Jarrett's group that also had Charlie Haden and Paul Motian on drums . Dewey was a great tenor sax player as well. Dont know if you have ever heard of "Dewey Redman" but he was great man...I mean great. I still have a bunch of Keith Jarrett's stuff on redbook and I just love the one live recording "Eye of the Tiger"where "Dewey" just goes off in a sax solo. Another good one is "Fort Yawuh" Dewey just goes buck wild man. But I must add PoppaC....before the formation of Keith Jarrett's quartet, he too like Dewey and Haden...spent time with Ornette Colman. Jarrett even spent time with Miles Davis in his post bop fusion bands with Wayne Shorter. So if you know what Colman was like, and what Miles "post be bop" bands where like...and you liked them, then you will love Dewey and Jarrett together. John Coltrain also spent time with Ornette Colman as well as with Don Cherry who was a great trumpet player.

Heres a picture of Dewey Redman.



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Dewey was one great Jazz tenor. Before he died he and Joshua did a few albums together. Joshua was greatly influenced by his dad later in his life after Joshua started his musical career. Did you know that Joshua was about to graduate medical school until he won the award? He gave it up to play music...and great music does he make.

I enjoy talking to you PoppaC about music....good stuff.