Joshua Redman - Beyond (Eac Single Flac Cue)

Joshua Redman - Beyond



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Artist: Joshua Redman

Title: Beyond

Genre Jazz

Styles Post Bop, Hard Bop, contemporary/Jazz

Audio CD (April 4, 2000)

Original Release Date: April 4, 2000

Number of Discs: 1

Label: Warner Bros / Wea



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Track Listing



1 Courage (Asymmetric Aria) Redman 7:34

2 Belonging (Lopsided Lullaby) Redman 5:50

3 Neverend Redman 4:27

4 Leap of Faith Redman 9:06

5 Balance Redman 9:05

6 Twilight... And Beyond Redman 11:00

7 Stoic Revolutions Redman 6:13

8 Suspended Emanations Redman 6:22

9 Last Rites of Rock 'N' Roll Redman 7:05

10 Life? Redman 6:51





Personnel



Joshua Redman (soprano, alto & tenor saxophones);

Mark Turner (tenor saxophone);

Aaron Goldberg (piano);

Reuben Rogers (bass);

Gregory Hutchinson (drums).





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review



Consider Redman a middle-aged lion, though he's only 31. No longer the prodigious youngster of 1991, when he won the



Thelonious Monk Institute competition, this talented, probing saxophonist has become as accomplished a composer as



player. His seventh Warner Brothers release is a provocative anomaly, equally supple and sturdy. If it rarely catches



fire, it just as rarely fails to nourish.



The tunes run the gamut from the emotive balladry of "Neverend," the shortest piece, to "Twilight ... and Beyond," an



ambitious 11-minute exploration of timbre and tempo. Sparked by the thoughtful piano of Aaron Goldberg, Reuben Rogers'



purposeful bass, and the impressionistic drums of Gregory Hutchinson, Redman always sounds assured, his confidence and



authority unmistakable. But the dryness of his tone keeps this music from connecting viscerally, instead sticking to a



cerebral plane above all.



One could say his titles tell the story: "Belonging (Lopsided Lullaby)," "A Life?" "Stoic Revolution." If they're witty



- like the music - the titles are also enigmatic, puns that don't always make their point as clearly as they might. The



tunes often are as tricky as the tempi, their drama more intellectual than physical.



Redman is in fine form - he's a trim, long man, like his sax lines - and the band is more than sympathetic. While you



can hear Rollins and Coltrane in some tunes ("Stoic Revolution" sounds like an outtake from an early-'60s Trane



recording on Atlantic.), Redman's voice is his own.



What's most heartening about Beyond is its complexity. Not only is it anything but easy-listening, but it's committed,



the product of four men who spark a dense, collective improvisation. Repeated listening shows these tunes wear well.



Whether they move you is another question. It's one worth asking of this record again and again.





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With all the extracurricular glamour that surrounds Joshua Redman, sometimes it's hard to focus on Redman the jazz



musician, rather than Redman the ubiquitous, fashion-conscious celebrity. Redman's latest album, Beyond, doesn't depart



sonically from his previous works, its compositional zeal suggests he's indeed on his way to living up to all the hype.

While Redman's instrumental formidability has been long established, his compositional ingenuity has always seemed to



lag behind. He's a melodious player capable of filling the most vapid material with heartfelt emotion. Like the rest of



his post-Motown bop affiliates, he has an affinity for pop music and creates a synthesis best described as populist



bop.

Redman creates suspense similar to R&B sensualists Al Green and Marvin Gaye. He knows how to croon a melody through the



saxophone. Sometimes Redman extends a phrase slightly over the bar, like on the lulling ballad "Neverend," that brings



you to the edge of your seat in anticipation. Other times, he'll simply pace his solos in a conversational delivery



then punctuate them with rhapsodic exclamation points, question marks and ellipses as on "Belonging (Lopsided



Lullaby)." "Last Rites of Rock 'n' Roll," despite its avant-garde-ish beginning, with Redman droning in a



Middle-Eastern-inflected tone that could be mistaken for his more adventurous father, Dewey, is one of the more



straightahead bop tunes on Beyond. The sparkling "Courage (Asymmetric Aria)" begins with a melody so simplistic and



soothing that it could sell beauty products. But as soon as Redman departs from the billowy melody, he picks up



momentum and dives into a full-throttle improvisation that's enlivened by rapid melodic turnarounds and multiphonic



shrieks and wails.

So is Beyond beyond category? Hardly. Records like this have been made by a host of jazz luminaries, from Duke



Ellington to Pat Metheny. Will this album reach newer audiences? Not on its own, but with the publicity machine



choreographing this jazz poster boy's every move it's certainly Grammy-bound. Is that a bad thing? Not exactly, because



Beyond contains enough artistic integrity and pop sensibilities to prove that quality stuff can come sometimes in



shiny, marketable packages.