{"id":785,"date":"2007-01-09T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-09T09:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=785"},"modified":"2007-01-09T01:05:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-09T09:05:00","slug":"remembering_redman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2007\/01\/remembering_redman\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Redman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <em>The New York Times<\/em>, Ben Ratliff reports on Sunday night&#8217;s memorial service for tenor saxophonist Dewey Redman, at which a number of Redman&#8217;s colleagues performed.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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&#8217;s &#8220;Broken Shadows&#8221; that demonstrated the slippery harmonic mobility Mr. Redman played so easily. And Joshua Redman, Dewey Redman&#8217;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&#8217;s full range, putting space between short phrases. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To read all of Ratliff&#8217;s story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/01\/09\/arts\/music\/09dewe.html\"target=\"_blank\">go here<\/a>. For a rare recording of the Redmans together, seek out Dewey&#8217;s 1992 CD <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FAfrican-Venus-Dewey-Redman%2Fdp%2FB0000014L8%2Fsr%3D11-1%2Fqid%3D1168316885&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\"target=\"_blank\"><em>African Venus<\/em><\/a>, and hear the contrast between the styles of father and son.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In The New York Times, Ben Ratliff reports on Sunday night&#8217;s memorial service for tenor saxophonist Dewey Redman, at which a number of Redman&#8217;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&#8217;s &#8220;Broken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-785","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}