Joshua Redman News

Woody has been a jazz fan for about 30 years, starting with the diverse sounds of Maynard Ferguson's bands of the 1970s.

Every few years it seems as if the jazz media go out of their way to hype one young artist, overpraising him to such an extent that it is easy to tear him down when the next season arrives.

There are only three rules for Friday evening's Rachael Price concert: Sit back, close your eyes and relax.

So, off the top of my head, in alphabetical order, here are the 30 jazz discs that I have dug the most from this decade which is now drawing to a close... Alegria by Wayne Shorter Amarosa by Rosa Passos Avatar by Gonzalo Rubalcaba Beautiful Existence by Joe Morris Back East by Joshua Redman Betwixt by Pandelis Karayorgis Chasin the Gypsy by James ...

Martin Longley also currently writes for the BBC Music, Brooklyn Vegan, Spannered and Stirrer websites, The Wire and Jazzwise magazines, and the Coventry Telegraph newspaper.

Watch Gregory Hutchinson play, and you will understand why fellow musicians call him "Touch." Joshua Redman's set at the Jazz Standard last Thursday showed tremendous equipoise, and the saxophonist wore the boutonniere of stardom so nonchalantly as to render it a useless ornament.

After a three-year absence, the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition returned to Washington on Sunday night and gave local fans plenty to cheer about. For the world of jazz, the glittering gala and competition are Oscar night and 'American Idol' finals rolled into one -- though with a much higher level of talent.

Since its founding in 1987, the annual contest, sponsored by the Washington-based Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, has become the most prestigious competition in the world for aspiring jazz musicians. Focusing on a different instrument each year, it has become the equivalent of the Van Cliburn and Tchaikovsky competitions in classical music. Past winners and finalists, such as Joshua Redman, Jane Monheit and Eric Alexander, have become the new stars of jazz.

When Miguel Zenon brings his "Esta Plena" Quartet to town Thursday, it will serve as a homecoming of sorts for the acclaimed saxophonist.

Last night kicked off the opening of the international Enjoy Jazz festival in Heidelberg.

Elena Gillespie is a graduate student in psychology and author with a research interest in the nature of communication in music, particularly improvisational jazz, and the phenomenology of music within human perception.

One of the more distinctive voices among a new breed of Hammond B-3 organ players on the jazz scene, Sam Yahel has earned the top spot in Down Beat's annual International Critics Poll as a Talent Deserving Of Recognition for the past four consecutive years.

If you have a hard time thinking of a jazz trio without a piano, you could both learn something from Joshua Redman and feel reassured by Dan Tepfer.

He's not about to have photos of Brad Mehldau or Aaron Goldberg put on a milk carton, but Joshua Redman says he misses pianists.

Steve Kirby is building a formidable jazz band with the addition of saxophonist Jimmy Greene and pianist George Colligan to the University of Manitoba music faculty's staff.And Kirby, the faculty's director of jazz studies, has the enviable dilemma of trying to choose between two dream candidates for the drum chair recently vacated by Terreon ...

Joshua Redman Trio Clowes Memorial Hall, 4602 Sunset Ave. Saturday, Sept. 19, 8 p.m., $25-35, all-ages Pre-show music by the Dan Tepfer Trio.

The Indy Jazz Festival, presented by Marsh, in Indianapolis announces that current Cole Porter Fellow, Dan Tepfer, has been added to the lineup of this prestigious festival presented yearly.

Dan Frankowski is a thinker, novelty-seeker, trumpet player, and composer. He was raised in the Twin Cities, where his high school band and the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies were early crucibles, with peers like Michael Bland and Michael Sutton .

Old-fashioned word, "virtue" - and here's a 22-year-old jazz piano whiz doing his best to give original substance to the concept.

Sam Yahel is best known as an organist who has performed and recorded with Joshua Redman , Bill Frisell , Norah Jones , Lizz Wright , Ryan Kisor , Madeleine Peyroux and many others.

JAZZ STANDARD Swings Into October with Return Visits from Saxophonist Joshua Redman and the 7th Annual Festival of New Trumpet Music JAZZ STANDARD, one of the nation's premier jazz clubs, presents another month of great jazz in October.