Greenwich Village Parade And Festivities With The Joshua Redman Trio

New York, NY (Top40 Charts) This Halloween weekend, amidst the Greenwich Village parade and festivities, the Joshua Redman Trio, featuring Reuben Rogers on bass and Gregory Hutchinson on drums, which can be heard on Redman's recent Nonesuch release, Trios Live, concludes its six-night run at the famed Village Vanguard in New York City, with two sets each night, tonight, Saturday, and Sunday. The trio, which has been holding multi-night residencies throughout the US this fall, offers a four-night run at the Jazz at the Bistro in St. Louis in the week ahead.

The New York Times music critic Nate Chinen, in his review of Tuesday's opening set, runs through some of "the attributes that have kept Joshua Redman within a rare tier of jazz prominence for the last 20 years," settling on the "diligence, sensitivity and a kind of implicit trust" with his audience that helps set the saxophonist apart from his peers. And at the Vanguard, the crowd "locked into his frequency immediately."

Redman is also part of the collaborative band James Farm, whose sophomore album, City Folk, was released this week on Nonesuch Records. City Folk earns a perfect five stars from the Financial Times, which describes it as "ten beautifully crafted miniatures that rock with rhythm while holding virtuosity in check," and four stars from the Evening Standard, which calls James Farm "a jazz supergroup with an indie disposition … four crack musicians and improvisers whose fierce grooves and synergy make for spine-tingling listening."