Artist: Dewey Redman
Genre(s):
Jazz
Discography:
Tarik
Year: 2002
Tracks: 5
The Ear of the Behearer
Year: 1998
Tracks: 11
One of the outstanding new wave tenors, John Dewey Redman has never received anywhere well-nigh the acclaim that his son Joshua Redman gained in the 1990s, simply ironically Dewey is ofttimes to a greater extent than of an innovational player. He began on clarinet when he was 13 and played in his high gear school day march band, a mathematical group that also included Ornette Coleman, Charles II Moffett, and Prince Lasha. Redman was a public school instructor during 1956-1959 just, afterwards acquiring his master's degree in education from North Texas State, he affected to San Francisco where he freelanced as a musician for seven-spot years; Pharoah Sanders was among his sidemen. Altogether of this was a prelude to his impressive association with the Ornette Coleman Quadruplet (1967-1974), during which Redman's strain performing was a perfect tense match for Ornette's contralto. Redman could dally as unleash as the personnel casualty loss leader but his likeable pure tone made the euphony appear a niggling to a greater extent accessible. He as well worked with Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra and was an important piece of Keith Jarrett's acme mathematical group, his quintet of the mid-'70s. Redman guested on Tap Metheny's notability 80/81 record record album and teamed up with Don Cherry, Charlie Haden, and Ed Blackwell in the Ornette Coleman reunion isthmus called Old and Fresh Dreams. Disdain all of this activity and plenty of recordings (including occasional ones as a drawing card), Melvil Dewey Redman has until at present to be amply recognized for his innovative talents.
Mike Seeger
