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, Dewey Redman has never received anywhere near the spat that his boy Joshua Redman gained in the 1990s, simply ironically Dewey is often more than of an innovational player. He began on clarinet when he was 13 and played in his high school march band, a mathematical group that also included Ornette Coleman, Charles Moffett, and Prince Lasha. Redman was a public schoolhouse teacher during 1956-1959 but, after getting his master's degree in instruction from North Texas State, he affected to San Francisco where he freelanced as a musician for seven days; Pharoah Sanders was among his sidemen. All of this was a prelude to his impressive association with the Ornette Coleman Quartet (1967-1974), during which Redman's strain performing was a perfect match for Ornette's alto. Redman could play as loose as the loss leader but his likeable pure tone made the euphony seem a niggling more accessible. He as well worked with Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra and was an important piece of Keith Jarrett's superlative mathematical group, his quintet of the mid-'70s. Redman guested on Pat Metheny's notable 80/81 record album and teamed up with Don Cherry, Charlie Haden, and Ed Blackwell in the Ornette Coleman reunification band called Old and New Dreams. Despite all of this activity and muckle of recordings (including occasional ones as a drawing card), Dewey Redman has until now to be fully recognized for his innovative talents.
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