Remembering Redman

In The New York Times, Ben Ratliff reports on Sunday night’s memorial service for tenor saxophonist Dewey Redman, at which a number of Redman’s colleagues performed.

The pianist Ethan Iverson and the bassist Reid Anderson, both of the trio the Bad Plus, with (Matt) Wilson on drums, got off a version of (Ornette) Coleman’s “Broken Shadows” that demonstrated the slippery harmonic mobility Mr. Redman played so easily. And Joshua Redman, Dewey Redman’s son, played a startling piece on tenor saxophone, unaccompanied, and very unlike the rest of his music: it was slow and minor and wary, using the horn’s full range, putting space between short phrases.

To read all of Ratliff’s story, go here. For a rare recording of the Redmans together, seek out Dewey’s 1992 CD African Venus, and hear the contrast between the styles of father and son.