Katherine McVicker MUSIC WORKS INTERNATIONAL [email protected] Tel: +01 781 300 7580 Fax: +01 781 942 8858 www.musicworksinternational.com “There was a real spirit of camaraderie in the air last night, and Redman gives such wonderfully emphatic shape and narrative to everything he does, the listener can read the plot all of the time.“ LONDON JAZZ NEWS “...the ‘live’ energy and audience reaction combined to produce a thrill-a-minute set.” BBC MAGAZINE “...a virtuoso outpouring by Mr. Redman, who worked up a high lather, feverish and soulful, until there was nothing left to say.” THE NEW YORK TIMES JOSHUA REDMAN is one of the most acclaimed and charismatic jazz artists to have emerged in the decade of the 1990s. Born in Berkeley, California, he is the son of legendary saxophonist Dewey Redman and dancer Renee Shedroff. He was exposed at an early age to a variety of musics (jazz, classical, rock, soul, Indian, Indonesian, Middle-Eastern, African) and instruments (recorder, piano, guitar, gatham, gamelan), and began playing clarinet at age nine before switching to what became his primary instrument, the tenor saxophone, one year later. The early influences of John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Cannonball Adderley and his father, Dewey Redman, as well as The Beatles, Aretha Franklin, the Temptations, Earth, Wind and Fire, Prince, The Police and Led Zeppelin drew Joshua more deeply into music. JOSHUA REDMAN
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“There was a real spirit of camaraderie in the air last night, and Redman gives such
wonderfully emphatic shape and narrative to everything he does, the listener can read
the plot all of the time.“ LONDON JAZZ NEWS
“...the ‘live’ energy and audience reaction combined to produce a thrill-a-minute set.”
BBC MAGAZINE
“...a virtuoso outpouring by Mr. Redman, who
worked up a high lather, feverish and soulful,
until there was nothing left to say.”
THE NEW YORK TIMES
JOSHUA REDMAN is one of the most acclaimed and charismatic jazz artists to have emerged in the decade of the 1990s. Born in Berkeley, California, he is the son of legendary saxophonist Dewey Redman and dancer Renee Shedroff. He was exposed at an early age to a variety of musics (jazz, classical, rock, soul, Indian, Indonesian, Middle-Eastern, African) and instruments (recorder, piano, guitar, gatham, gamelan), and began playing clarinet at age nine before switching to what became his primary instrument, the tenor saxophone, one year later. The early influences of John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Cannonball Adderley and his father, Dewey Redman, as well as The Beatles, Aretha Franklin, the Temptations, Earth, Wind and Fire, Prince, The Police and Led Zeppelin drew Joshua more deeply into music.