The Joshua Redman Trio performs at the University of Maryland's Clarice Smith Center on Sunday. The trio appears on Compass, Redman's latest Nonesuch release, which the Washington Post says "easily ranks among his most rewarding." DCist says, "The music is challenging, but remains accessible even to the untrained ear." The Washington City Paper insists the trio has "one of the surest and most intoxicating sense of melody you’ve ever heard."
Joshua Redman and his trio, featuring Reuben Rogers on bass and Gregory Hutchinson on drums, perform at the Clarice Smith Center's Dekelboum Concert Hall on the University of Maryland campus in College Park on Sunday. Rogers and Hutchinson make one half of the double trio configuration of musicians on Compass, Redman's newest Nonesuch release.
The Washington Post says Redman's latest album "easily ranks among his most rewarding." The double-trio tunes, says reviewer Mike Joyce, "are multifaceted, distinguished by a shifting array of chamber-jazz atmospherics, call-and-response exchanges, orchestral surges and quick-witted interplay." Read the review at washingtonpost.com.
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DCist spoke with Redman about his ties to the DC area, about Sunday's show, and about working in the trio format. "While many trios tend to delve a bit too far into abstraction," writes DCist's Sriram Gopal, "that is not the case with Redman's music. The music is challenging, but remains accessible even to the untrained ear." Gopal, referencing a 2007 performance from the Redman Trio, asserts, "Having seen this group, we can say that Sunday's audience can expect a memorable performance." Read the article at dcist.com.
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The Washington City Paper, in looking for just the right words to describe the saxophonist, concludes that "it’s probably best to simply call Redman a virtuoso who goes wherever his muse takes him—be it into standards, the free jazz that his father (Dewey) helped to innovate, or hardcore fusion." And with his trio, says the paper's Michael J. West, Redman "nods to the harmonically unrestrained trio records of Sonny Rollins (an important influence) in the ’60s, and with one of the surest and most intoxicating sense of melody you’ve ever heard." Read more at washingtoncitypaper.com.
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You can pick up a copy of Compass, with the exclusive bonus track "Alef Ituk," in the Nonesuch Store. For more on Redman's upcoming tour, including performances with label mate Brad Mehldau, visit nonesuch.com/on-tour.
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