William Hollifield » Joshua Redman http://williamhollifield.com Observations of a jazz guy ... Thu, 08 Jul 2010 05:33:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Shopping with Joshua Redman http://williamhollifield.com/index.php/2009/11/22/shopping-with-joshua-redman/ http://williamhollifield.com/index.php/2009/11/22/shopping-with-joshua-redman/#comments Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:36:51 +0000 William http://williamhollifield.com/?p=1071 While this article has absolutely no musical value, I thought this would be something funny to share with everyone.  Follow the link to read the full two page article by Eric Asimov.  Hint: there is mention of a personal Prada shopper…. :-)

STYLE | January 10, 1999
SHOPPING WITH: Joshua Redman; A Jazz Virtuoso Is Picky About the Details
By ERIC ASIMOV
AS Joshua Redman would be the first to tell you, he is a picky kind of fellow. Mr. Redman, the jazz saxophonist and band leader, was poring over shirts at the Prada store on Madison Avenue last Wednesday, looking for stagewear for his coming two-week tour of Japan. As his personal shopper at Prada, Ola Itani, brought in several dozen selections, each individually boxed with a clear plastic top, he zoomed in on defect after defect. The color was wrong on one, the collar too long on another, the shape on a third was too boxy and a single button on a fourth interrupted an otherwise clean line of Velcro closures.
]]> http://williamhollifield.com/index.php/2009/11/22/shopping-with-joshua-redman/feed/ 0 Joshua Redman – Slap Tongue Compilation http://williamhollifield.com/index.php/2009/11/21/joshua-redman-slap-tongue-compilation/ http://williamhollifield.com/index.php/2009/11/21/joshua-redman-slap-tongue-compilation/#comments Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:02:23 +0000 William http://williamhollifield.com/?p=1005 Joshua Redman – Birthday Song (Part II) Live

Joshua Redman – Tenor Sax, Organ, Effects

Sam Yahel – Keyboards

Jeff Ballard – Drums

The slap tongue portion of this video occurs at the very end, but it is GORGEOUS.  In some of the other videos it is not nearly as clean as this.

Joshua Redman – Slap Tongue Intro

Joshua Redman – “Hide & Seek” Slap Tongue Intro

This takes place at the Jazz Alley in Seattle on June 7th, 2007.  This is an amazing sample of Redman’s ability to slap tongue.  It’s also filmed at angle that you can see a little bit of how he’s manipulating his mouth (except when the waitress gets in the way :-) ).

]]> http://williamhollifield.com/index.php/2009/11/21/joshua-redman-slap-tongue-compilation/feed/ 0 Joshua Redman – Compass http://williamhollifield.com/index.php/2009/11/21/joshua-redman-compass/ http://williamhollifield.com/index.php/2009/11/21/joshua-redman-compass/#comments Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:15:11 +0000 William http://williamhollifield.com/?p=1018 Just checked out this official video by Nonesuch records interviewing Joshua Redman about his newest album, Compass.  This is a really cool look into Redman’s early childhood and the concept behind this latest record.

Get Joshua Redman’s new album “Compass” from Amazon.com

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