American saxophone player Joshua Redman whose latest album Walking Shadows was released few days ago is on European tour with his quartet.
Beside the leader, the quartet consisting of pianist Aaron Goldberg, bassist Reuben Rogers and drummer Gregory Hutchinson starts touring tomorrow at a concert in Milan and will perform during next days in France, Spain, the Netherlands and Germany.
Also, Redman is going to perform with bassist Christian McBride at Wigmore Hall in London, where upon he will return to New York for a planed performance on 4th July with the ensemble he recorded his latest album with.
It’s a quartet that beside the saxophonist consists of pianist Brad Mehldau, bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Brian Blade. The recording included an orchestra as well which made Walking Shadows Redman’s Redman’s first recording to include an orchestral ensemble, which plays on many of the tracks.
The album produced by Mehldau, consisting of 12 balads – Redman’s and Mehldau’s original compositions and compositions by authors like John Mayer, Pino Palladino, John Lennon or Paul McCartney.
JazzReview called the album “stunning” predicting it an almost safe Grammy nomination and win, and numerous magazines and web portals praised it as “divine”, “release of the year” and album of “extraordinary beauty”.
We had the chance to listen to Redman and his collaborators Mehldau, Grenadier, Rodgers and Hutchinson as members of different ensembles on Jazz Fest’s stages during past years, but now listen to Final Hour of the mentioned Joshua Redman album.