After performing the second of two consecutive nights at New York's Highline last night, Joshua Redman and his Double Trio head up to Boston to play the Berklee Performance Center tonight, then out to Albany for their last show with all five musicians featured on Redman's new album, Compass. Previewing Friday's show at Albany's The Egg, the Schenectady Daily Gazette writes of Redman's successful venture with the double-trio format: "The idea worked so well on record that now Redman is experimenting with the double-trio format live." Metro Canada gives Compass three-and-a-half stars.
After performing the second of two consecutive nights at New York's Highline last night, Joshua Redman and his Double Trio—bassists Larry Grenadier and Reuben Rogers and drummers Brian Blade and Greg Hutchinson—head up to Boston to play the Berklee Performance Center tonight, then out to Albany for their last show with all five musicians featured on Redman's new album, Compass.
Previewing Friday's show at Albany's The Egg, the Schenectady Daily Gazette examines the special challenges and rewards brought by Redman's experiment with this expanded, double-trio format. "The idea worked so well on record," says the Daily Gazette, "that now Redman is experimenting with the double-trio format live."
The article goes on to describe the Compass repertoire, all composed by Redman except for a rendition of Beethoven's "Moonlight" Sonata: "The material strikes a balance between embracing the inherent simplicity of the trio setting, while at the same time pushing that format to new boundaries."
Read more at dailygazette.com.
Metro Canada gives Compass three-and-a-half stars, with reviewer Ian Nathanson concluding, "Ear-pleasing jazz never sounded so arty yet so accessible."
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