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Back East
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by Joshua Redman
Sales Rank: 605110
Price:$51.99
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Album Details
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1. The Surrey with the Fringe on Top - Joshua Redman, Rodgers, Richard
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2. East of the Sun And West of the Moon - Joshua Redman, Bowman, Brooks
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3. Zarafah - Joshua Redman, Redman, Joshua
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4. Indian Song - Joshua Redman, Shorter, Wayne
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5. I'm an Old Cowhand - Joshua Redman, Mercer, Johnny H.
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6. Wagon Wheels - Joshua Redman, DeRose, Peter
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7. Back East - Joshua Redman, Redman, Joshua
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8. Mantra #5 - Joshua Redman, Redman, Joshua
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9. Indonesia - Joshua Redman, Redman, Joshua
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10. India - Joshua Redman, Coltrane, John
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11. GJ - Joshua Redman, Redman, Dewey
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Joshua Redman mixes originals with standards in tribute of the great sax players before him, on his new album Back East. But Redman doesn't just pay homage with these tunes, he makes them his own, adding a different sort of "eastern" feel to both the covers and his original compositions. With many special guest performers, including his own father, Redman has created a eloquent gift for the music world.
--This text refers to the
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Listener Reviews & Comments
"Back East" is Joshua Redman's first recording in an acoustic-trio setting and his first all-acoustic outing since his 2001 Warner Bros disc, "Passage of Time". Recorded in New York City, it features the Berkeley, California-based Redman with three different, all-star rhythms sections, and a few carefully chosen guest players, most notably his father Dewey, who, unfortunately, passed away shortly after this album was completed. Redman mixes originals with standards, selected in part to pay tribute to the great sax players who've inspired him, including John Coltrane ("India"), Wayne Shorter ("Indian Song") and Stan Getz ("East of the Sun", a tune associated with Getz). Most significantly, he reinterprets two songs from Sonny Rollins' 1957 classic acoustic-trio set, "Way Out West". The three distinct rhythm sections Redman cut these tracks with are old friends and frequent collaborators of Redman's, as well as marquee names in contemporary jazz: bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Ali Jackson, bassist Christian McBride and drummer Brian Blade, bassist Reuben Rogers and drummer Eric Harland. Joe Lavano, whom Redman calls "one of the greatest saxophonists to emerge in the post-Coltrane generation," guests on "Indian Song"; Chris Cheek, whom Redman considers his biggest contemporary influence, sits in on Redman's own "Mantra #5". Dewey Redman plays tenor on a version of Coltrane's "India", then performs alone on alto for the album's eloquent coda, an original Dewey Redman number called "GJ", written as a gift for Josh's infant son - a track that turned out to be the final session of Dewey's life. Joshua is bravely measuring himself against the tenor titan in that album's signature mode: the pianoless trio, jazz's version of the net-free high-wire act. To say that Redman doesn't soar like Rollins would belabor the obvious - but he doesn't pull an "Icarus", either. Only occasionally does he lapse into scales and rote riffing. Otherwise, he digs right in, finding melodic and harmonic beauty - along with a good deal of excitment - in every bar.
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