Joshua Redman - Still Dreaming (2018)

Исполнитель: Joshua Redman
Название диска: Still Dreaming
Лейбл: Nonesuch Records - 565047
Страна: United States
Жанр: Contemporary Jazz, Post-Bop
Год выпуска: 2018
Количество треков: 8
Формат: MP3
Качество: 320 kbps
Время звучания: 00:40:02
Размер файла: 101,22 МБ$CUT$

Треклист:

1. New Year
2. Unanimity
3. Haze and Aspirations
4. It's Not the Same
5. Blues For Charlie
6. Playing
7. Comme Il Faut
8. The Rest

There's a tension in Joshua Redman's new album, Still Dreaming, and it may not be the one that you expect.

For the last couple of years, Redman, a saxophonist within jazz's first tier of prominence, has led an agile post-bop group with Ron Miles on cornet, Scott Colley on bass and Brian Blade on drums. He formed this quartet to pay homage to Old and New Dreams, a band active from the mid-1970s to the mid-'80s, with his father, Dewey Redman, on tenor saxophone.

But the animating push-pull on this album isn't about legacy so much as temperament. Old and New Dreams was first and foremost a proud continuation of the elastic, ecstatic and volatile group cohesion forged by Ornette Coleman in the 1960s and early '70s. In addition to Dewey Redman, the band featured cornetist Don Cherry, drummer Ed Blackwell and bassist Charlie Haden. As alumni of Coleman's distinctive sound world, these artists were torchbearers — with the implicit proviso that bearing a torch is all about illuminating the unknown.

Joshua Redman is a different sort of musical explorer. As an improviser and a bandleader, he tends to strike an elegant balance between logic and risk. He isn't a headlong, impetuous type, nor someone who favors a frayed edge. When he first invoked his father, obliquely, early in his career — on the 1993 album Wish, which reunited most of the lineup from Pat Metheny's Rejoicing — it was more an acknowledgment of birthright than a pledge of allegiance.

Still Dreaming goes a lot further to stake a claim, with evident sincerity and Joshua Redman - Still Dreaming (2018)