Joshua Redman Quartet

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In 2026, the year marking the centenary of Miles Davis' birth, we almost forget another centenary that, until a few decades ago, was considered even more important: that of John Coltrane, also born in 1926 but who died in 1967, still in his forties, after literally changing the sound of the tenor saxophone in just over ten years. Orphans of a spiritual father, saxophonists searched long and hard for a new standard-bearer. Jarrett, for example, found two: one in Europe, Jan Garbarek, and one in America, Dewey Redman.
And who are the reference points for saxophonists today? One is certainly Joshua Redman, Dewey's son, who was just born (1969) when his father was starting out with Jarrett and who has nevertheless been on the crest of the wave since the early 1990s, when he appeared and recorded with his quartet, which Brad Mehldau joined on piano almost immediately.
Redman has always been an advocate of a language that has its roots in the great tradition of jazz, always up to date, enlivened by the thousand currents of the present, but always with at least one foot firmly on the main road. And it is really interesting to see how, even in his most recent albums, Redman still wants to look around and open up new horizons, but without forgetting that his roots are in jazz.

Joshua Redman is one of the most acclaimed and charismatic jazz artists to have emerged in the 1990’s. Born in Berkeley, California he is the son of legendary saxophonist Dewey Redman and dancer Renee Shedroff. In 1991 Redman graduated from Harvard College summa cum laude and had already been accepted by Yale Law School, but deferred entrance for what he believed was only going to be one year. Instead, he moved to New York City and immediately found himself immersed in the city’s burgeoning jazz scene. Five months later Redman was named winner of the prestigious Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition. Since then, Redman has worked and played with a vast array of jazz luminaries, released over twenty albums (Warner & Nonesuch), and has garnered top honors in critics and readers polls of DownBeat, Jazz Times, The Village Voice and Rolling Stone.