With Come What May, Joshua Redman makes the fans of his saxophone playing happy again after only a few months, i.e. Within a short time, after his last year.
Joshua RedmanCome What May★★★★☆Steve DavisCorrelations★★★★☆A few weeks ago the Branford Marsalis Quartet released their first studio album in nine years. That’s nothing — this is the Joshua Redman Quartet’s first in nearly two decades. We can’t complain. The American saxophonist has been a prolific recording artist, but nothing beats the cool confidence of a band who have spent years on the road.
It also helps that the seven Redman tunes here are so good.Redman likes to write spasmodic themes that relax into straight-ahead soloing. How We Do stutters along beneath the fluid saxophone, then breaks into bebop for the pianist Aaron Goldberg. DGAF is a jaunty jig that turns pensive for Goldberg, then persistent for Redman.
Gregory Hutchinson’s shifting drum patterns on.
Joshua Redman (born February 1, 1969) is a prominent American jazz saxophonist who records for Nonesuch Records. Redman, who is Black and Jewish, was born in Berkeley, California. He is the son of jazz saxophonist Dewey Redman. He is a graduate of Berkeley High School. Then in 1991 he graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa Society.
Redman won the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Saxophone Competition the same year and began focusing on his musical career. Redman continued to develop his style through the 1990s, beginning with a s.