Tuesday January 13, 2009
On Compass, Joshua Redman takes the concept of “playing trio” in surprising new directions. The title of his third Nonesuch disc evokes navigation, travel, a desire to find one’s bearings. Redman confirms, “This album was a journey for me, a further exploration of the trio format. Musically, it’s an expansion on, and extension of, Back East,” his acclaimed 2007 set and his first studio recording with an acoustic trio. Now, with a group of collaborators as intrepid as he is—bassists Larry Grenadier and Rueben Rogers, and drummers Brian Blade and *Gregory Hutchinson*—Redman literally and figuratively stretches the shape of the trio approach; on the most audacious of these tunes, he performs with the entire lineup in a double-trio setting.
| I-10 (James Farm) | 4:32 | Joshua Redman |
| Polliwog (James Farm) | 8:22 | Joshua Redman |
| 1981 (James Farm) | 8:52 | Joshua Redman |
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