The Bad Plus Joshua Redman
The Bad Plus Joshua Redman
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Back in 2012, a Monday night at Edinburgh Jazz Festival became an incendiary experience when saxophonist Joshua Redman joined idiosyncratic piano trio The Bad Plus onstage at the Queen's Hall. This first album from the partnership doesn't quite blaze as consistently as memory says their live performance did, but it certainly illustrates what a compatible, meant-to-be unit the foursome formed, and the more contemplative nature of some of the themes only adds to the pleasure. All four musicians compose so there's a real variety at work, from the klezmer-like soulfulness of As This Moment Slips Away, where Redman's tenor sounds almost like a clarinet playing the high register melody over a minimalist groove, to the initially childlike Beauty Has It Hard and the joyful, tumbling mayhem of Faith Through Error. Seven of the nine tracks are new but the two familiar pieces are renewed, with bassist Reid Anderson's Silence Is The Question turning into an epic of purposeful quartet improvisation.
Rob Adams
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