Redman was the subject of the award-winning documentary film DEWEY TIME (2001) and continues to be a vital improvisor as he eases into his mid 70's.
He is the father of tenor saxophonist Joshua Redman. Joshua Redman (born February 1, 1969) is a prominent jazz saxophonist who records for Warner Brothers records. ...
DeweyRedman, who has died of liver failure at the age of 75 was a bulky, grizzled saxophonist from Forth Worth, Texas, who sustained an insider's reputation across three decades for incisively independent contributions to some of the best work of Ornette Coleman and Keith Jarrett.
Redman began playing the clarinet in a church band at the age of 13, and was in a high-school marching band with Coleman later in his teens.
Redman was by now adding a sometimes spine-tingling dimension to the tenor sax by simultaneously singing and blowing through it, and his interest in glissandos, bent-pitches and ambiguous middle eastern tonalities was also expressed in his use of the oboe-like double-reed musette.
This is a curious set for saxophonist DeweyRedman, featuring a killer band that includes bassist Cameron Brown, drummer Leon Parker, and the first appearance of his son, Joshua, on tenor in duet...
DeweyRedman is featured in a few different settings on this intriguing and generally successful album.
This 1998 CD reissues DeweyRedman's entire The Ear of the Behearer album (although it leaves out an alternate take of "Interconnection" that was released on a different set), plus four of the...
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