Saxophonist Joshua Redman’s new album, Walking Shadows, is due out May 7 on Nonesuch Records. The album is Redman’s first recording to include an orchestral ensemble and was produced by his friend and frequent collaborator Brad Mehldau. The record's core ensemble is a quartet featuring Mehldau, Larry Grenadier, and Brian Blade. Walking Shadows includes original tunes from both Redman and Mehldau along with works by a wide range of composers, like John Mayer and Pino Palladino, Kern and Hammerstein, and Lennon and McCartney. "Stop This Train," the tune by Mayer and Palladino, was featured on the latest episode of Jamie Cullum's show, which aired last night on BBC Radio 2.

"It’s fascinating here how this band get into this very sweet melody and state it in a very simple, beautiful way," says Cullum, "and then start improvising on the melody and go more and more inside and outside the song in the soloing. A brilliant bit of improvisation from Joshua Redman.”

You can hear the song and listen to the complete episode of Jamie Cullum, which also includes Ron Carter and Miles Davis's "Eighty-One," the opening track to the 2006 Nonesuch album Bill Frisell, Ron Carter, Paul Motion ("a brilliant album"), at bbc.co.uk. Redman’s segment begins just over 40 minutes in.

Walking Shadows is now available to pre-order in the Nonesuch Store with a download of the Redman-penned album track “Final Hour” at checkout and a download of the complete album available starting release day. To hear that track and reserve your copy, click here.

Joshua Redman performs with his Quartet, featuring Aaron Goldberg, Joe Sanders, and Kendrick Scott, at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival this Friday. As part of his European spring tour, Redman performs with bassist Christian McBride at London's Wigmore Hall on May 11, the final concert in the Wigmore jazz series under Redman's curatorship this season. For additional details and ticket links, visit nonesuch.com/on-tour.