Joshua Redman Comes Back to the Future

Tuesday March 29, 2011

From Monterey County Weekly

Joshua Redman Comes Back to the Future
By: Walter Ryce

That jazz saxophonist Joshua Redman has been selected as artist-in-residence for the Next Generation Jazz Festival – which mentors the best high school jazz musicians in the country – is the latest milestone in the 42-year-old’s musical journey. The first one can probably be counted at his birth. 

He was born to Renee Shedroff, a Jewish contemporary dancer, and Dewey Redman, a legendary African-American saxophone player. Although he grew up in a rich culture brew swirling with jazz, rock, classical, Middle Eastern, Indian and African music – and played saxophone so well as a youngster that he made the prestigious Berkeley High School Jazz Ensemble – Redman, after graduating Harvard summa cum laude, planned to attend Yale Law School. 

Luckily for lovers of jazz and saxophone, he took a year off and moved into a house in Brooklyn with friends from the Berklee College of Music (to help defray the cost of rent), and gigged with top flight jazz peers like Roy Hargrove, Leon Parker and Geoff Keezer. In November 1992 he won the Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition, which lead to tours and recording sessions with masters of the game, like Clark Terry, Charlie Haden, Elvin Jones and Pat Metheny. 

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