“I always thought someday I’m gonna do a different kind of record. I’m gonna do a record that has more electric textures, that has wider sonic variety, I’m gonna do a record that relies more heavily on other sorts of rhythms – not just swing-bass rhythms but more backbeat rhythms… But it took me ten years to do a record like and I’ve finally done it and I’m so happy with it. It was a risk and it was a challenge but it’s been very rewarding for me.” That’s Joshua Redman talking about his new CD, Elastic, which is out tomorrow. Redman’s Elastic Band consists of Sam Yahel on multiple keyboards and Brian Blade on drums (the same group also composes YaYa3, who released their self-titled album earlier this summer). Joshua says that this music is more his own than any other music he’s ever written and that it has more of a personal identity ot it. After listening to this CD, it sounds like he’s a guy I want to get to know better.
Joshua Redman Quote
I read a quote from Joshua Redman in a recent Borders magazine. I thought it was appropriate for the first entry at this site.
“Jazz is going in all different directions now, and most are wonderful. There are great musicians with really original things to say. The music is in a really wonderful, creative time. Jazz is mixing with other forms of music, but there is no one next step.
We have to stop seeing the development of jazz – or the development of any art – in this kind of linear progression. Each step is a little bit higher than the one before. There’s always a next obvious step, which represents obvious progress and linear evolution from what came before. That’s a very modernist conception and it’s worked for a long time. But I think this is more of a postmodern age. It’s less about the next big thing or the next logical extension of what’s happening. It’s more about all these different possible creative avenues that are being explored.”
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