New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Joshua
Redman Quartet's new album, Come What May, is out now on Nonesuch Records. This is the first recording in almost two decades for this group of musicians: the recently Grammy-nominated saxophonist and his longtime friends and colleagues pianist
Aaron Goldberg, bassist Reuben Rogers, and drummer Gregory Hutchinson. Previous releases were Beyond (2000) and Passage of Time (2001). The Quartet, which has toured internationally over the last several years, recorded seven
Redman tunes for Come What May. "Nothing beats the cool confidence of a band who have spent years on the road," says Chris Pearson's four-star review in the Times of London. "It also helps that the seven
Redman tunes here are so good ... Four men playing as one."
To pick up a copy, head to your local record store, iTunes, Amazon, where CD and vinyl orders include a download of the complete album at checkout. You can also hear the album now on Spotify and Apple Music.
The Guardian has called
Redman "one of the 21st century's finest jazz improvisers," and the
Boston Globe said of the group's recent Newport Jazz Festival performance, "There was tenor Joshua
Redman with his quartet, showing how to build excitement and get the crowd screaming without pressing or compromising his art." The Joshua
Redman Quartet tours internationally throughout this spring and summer; see tour dates below.
Redman recently said of Goldberg, Rogers, and Hutchinson, in Denver's Westword newspaper, "They're some of my favorite musicians in the world. We've played so much over the years and have been together on the road so much, on and off the bandstand, there's just that sort of camaraderie and friendship and genuine love for and understanding of each other that, for me, [is] the ideal situation for making music. When you have that level of trust and empathy, both musically and personally, it allows you to be truly relaxed and free; and those are really good pre-conditions for magic to potentially happen.
Joshua Redman's first album on Nonesuch was the Grammy-nominated Momentum (2005). His other releases on the label include Back East, Compass, and Trios Live, all of which explore the trio format; MoodSwing (1994, re-issued); Walking
Shadows (2013), his first recording to include an orchestral ensemble; The
Bad Plus Joshua
Redman (2015), a collaboration with the acclaimed trio; Nearness (2016), a duo album with longtime friend and collaborator Brad Mehldau; and the 2018 Grammy-nominated Still Dreaming—an album inspired by his father Dewey Redman's 1976-1987 band, Old and New Dreams.
Redman currently tours with his trio with Rogers and Hutchinson; his quartet; Still Dreaming, with Ron Miles, Scott Colley and Brian Blade; and occasionally with the collaborative group
James Farm, with
Aaron Parks, Matt Penman, and Eric Harland.
James Farm has two releases on Nonesuch: their 2011 self-titled album and 2014's City Folk.
JOSHUA REDMAN ON TOUR
Mar 29 Swyer Theatre, The Egg* Albany, NY
Mar 30 Iron Horse
Music Hall* Northampton, MA
Mar 31 Sanders Theatre* Cambridge, MA
Apr 2-7 Blue Note* New York, NY
Apr 11 Folly Theater* Kansas City, MO
Apr 13 Hopkins Center for the Arts* Hopkins, MN
Apr 25 Jazzkaar Festival** Tallinn, ESTONIA
Apr 26 Kaunas Jazz** Kaunas, LATVIA
Apr 27 April Jazz** Espoo, FINLAND
Apr 28 Auditorium Parco della Musica** Rome, ITALY
Apr 30 Officine Grandi Riparazioni** Turin, ITALY
May 1 Jazzfest Gronau** Gronau, GERMANY
May 4 Cheltenham Jazz Festival** Cheltenham, UK
May 15 Sala Sao Paulo^ Sao Paulo, BRAZIL
May 29 Jazz Sous Les Pommiers^^ Coutances, FRANCE
May 31 Jazz en Comminges^^ Villeneuve de Riviere, FRANCE
Jun 1 Jazz in Glarus^^ Ennenda, SWITZERLAND
Jun 2 Opderschmelz^^ Dudelange, LUXEMBOURG
Jun 9 Moers Festival† Moers, GERMANY
Jun 15 DC JazzFest* Washington, DC
Jun 18 Jazz Winnipeg* Winnipeg, MB
Jun 24 Sasktel Jazz Fest* Saskatoon, SK
Jun 30 Saratoga Springs Jazz Festival* Saratoga Springs, NY
Jul 2 Montreal International Jazz Festival* Montreal, QC
* Joshua
Redman Quartet feat.
Aaron Goldberg, Reuben Rogers & Gregory Hutchinson
** Joshua
Redman Trio
^ w/Thiago Espirito Santo
^^ w/Reis/Demuth/Wiltgen Trio
† w/WDR Big Band
