Joshua Redman: Walking Shadows on CD
Walking Shadows
Conventional CD, playable with all CD players and computer drives, but also with most SACD or multiplayers.
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- Label:
- Nonesuch
- Year of recording ca.:
- 2013
- UPC/EAN:
- 0075597960938
- Release date:
- 7.5.2013
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Das neue Album des Saxophonisten präsentiert eine Band mit langjährigen
Weggefährten des Ausnahmekünstlers: Brad Mehldau am Piano, Larry Grenadier am Bass, Brian Blade an den Drums und einen Orchester-Ensemble, geleitet von Dan Coleman.
Produziert wurde das Album von Brad Mehldau und Joshua Redman.
Die 12 Balladen, die für das Album gewählt wurden sind eine sehr persönliche Auswahl, darunter Stücke von Kern / Hammerstein, Lennon / McCartney, John Mayer, so wie eigenen Kompositionen. Arrangements mit Orchester sind darüber hinaus etwas Neues: Erstmalig präsentiert sich Redman eingebettet in einen Orchester-Sound. Zurückhaltend arrangiert, überlagern sie das Geschehen nicht, vielmehr kommt Redmans Saxophon fantastisch, klar und stark. Er vergisst dabei nie den Song, zelebriert die Melodie und Rhythmik. So schreibt KulturNews auch: "Virtuos, brillant ... ausgeführt."
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The album, comprising 12 ballads, is Redman’s first recording to include an orchestral ensemble, which plays on many of the tracks. It was produced by Redman’s friend and frequent collaborator Brad Mehldau. The record's core ensemble is a quartet featuring Mehldau, Larry Grenadier, and Brian Blade - all frequent collaborators of Redman’s over the years. Dan Coleman conducts on the orchestral tracks. Walking Shadows includes original tunes from both Redman and Mehldau along with works by a wide range of composers such as John Mayer and Pino Palladino, Kern and Hammerstein, and Lennon and McCartney. Orchestral arrangements are by Mehldau, Coleman, and composer Patrick Zimmerli. Walking Shadows is now available to pre-order in the Nonesuch Store with an instant download of the Redman-penned album track “Final Hour,” which you can preview below, and a download of the complete album available starting release day.
Redman first worked with Mehldau and Blade in Redman’s mid-1990s quartet and they have been friends and frequent collaborators ever since. Redman was a featured soloist on Mehldau’s Jon Brion–produced 2010 orchestral album, Highway Rider. Walking Shadows is the first of Redman’s records to be produced by Mehldau. Redman says: “I couldn’t be more delighted to have the opportunity to do a ballads record with strings, with Brad producing, and my other great friends and collaborators all involved. I’ve wanted to do this for a long time.”
The New York Times said of the saxophonist, “Joshua Redman is one of the most visible jazz musicians of the last 15 years, which says something not just about his natural flow as an improviser and his command as a bandleader, but also about his willingness to use words ... to represent jazz to the outside world.”
Redman’s first self-titled studio album was released by Warner Bros. in 1993; eight additional records followed on Warner. His Nonesuch debut, Momentum, was released in 2005, along with the first of two SF JAZZ Collective albums on which he served as artistic director. In 2007, Nonesuch released Back East, Redman’s first studio recording with an acoustic trio, followed by Compass in 2009 featuring double trio. His most recent album, 2011’s James Farm, featured a band of the same name with pianist Aaron Parks, bassist Matt Penman, and drummer Eric Harland.
(nonesuch. com)
Rezensionen
,,"Walking Shadows" ist ein ästhetisches Spiel mit den Möglichkeiten des Sanften und Fragilen. Es ist eine Geste in Richtung des Populären, ohne die eigene Kraft zu verlieren." (Jazzthing, April / Mai 2013)
,,Ganz unterschiedliche Songs, darunter Klassiker von Billy Strayhorn und Kern & Hammerstein kommen neben ,,Let It Be" von den Beatles zum Tragen." (Stereo, Juni 2013)
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
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1 The Folks Who Live on the Hill
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2 Lush Life
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3 Stop This Train
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4 Adagio
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5 Easy Living
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6 Doll is Mine
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7 Infant Eyes
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8 Let it Be
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9 Final Hour
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10 Last Glimpse of Gotham
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11 Stardust
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12 Let Me Down Easy
