Acclaimed Grammy Award Nominated Saxophonist, Composer and Bandleader Joshua Redman kicks off St. Cecilia Music Center’s Spectacular Jazz Series
Joshua Redman will bring the Joshua Redman Group featuring artists from his newest album, “where are we”. Artists include Redman on saxophone, drummer Brian Blade, pianist Aaron Parks, bassist Joe Sanders, and the dynamic vocalist Gabrielle Cavassa.
St. Cecilia Music Center (SCMC) brings Grammy Award-nominated Joshua Redman and the Joshua Redman Group on October 10, 2024. The son of legendary saxophonist Dewey Redman and dancer Renee Shedroff, Joshua Redman has recorded and performed with musicians such as Dave Brubeck, Chick Corea, The Dave Matthews Band, Herbie Hancock, Quincy Jones, B.B. King, Yo-Yo Ma, Branford Marsalis, Christian McBride, The Rolling Stones, Stevie Wonder and so many more over the past 30 years. Joshua Redman has been nominated for eight Grammy Awards and has garnered top honors in critics and readers polls of DownBeat, Jazz Times, Village Voice, and Rolling Stone.
Executive & Artistic Director of SCMC Cathy Holbrook says, “We are thrilled to bring back Joshua Redman to the Royce Auditorium stage to kick off this season’s Spectacular Jazz Series. Joshua Redman is one of the most acclaimed and charismatic jazz saxophonists on the world stage today. Our first jazz concert will feature Joshua’s latest quintet, the Joshua Redman Group, who will perform a very special evening of jazz. Many of these group members are long time artists Joshua has worked with over his thirty-year career and who performed on his newest album “where are we”, (created during the pandemic). He’ll also be introducing the dynamic young jazz vocalist, Gabrielle Cavassa, who performed on this most recent album.
St. Cecilia Music Center will bring four jazz concerts to the Royce Auditorium Stage this season including the Joshua Redman Group on October 4th, jazz vocalist sensation Cécile McLorin Salvant on February 20th, jazz guitarist Julian Lage with his trio on March 18th, and eight-time GRAMMY Award winner Christian McBride with his new quintet Ursa Major, on April 22nd.
Holbrook added, “We’re excited for our 4-concert Spectacular Jazz Series this season and now is the perfect time to get season tickets!”
Individual tickets for the Joshua Redman Group are $60, $45, and $30 at scmcgr.org or by calling 616-459-2224. (Single tickets have a $4.00 per ticket fee.)
Joshua Redman Group tickets are also available through season tickets on the Chamber & Jazz Series and The Spectacular Jazz Series (Season Series Tickets offer a 15% - 20% discount off single ticket prices) All concerts start at 7:30pm.
Joshua Redman’s Bio:
Joshua Redman is one of the most acclaimed and respected jazz artists to have emerged in our generation. With a career spanning over thirty years, it is hard to imagine a year of firsts for a musician as prolific as Redman. And yet, 2023 proved to be exactly that: launching his debut album, “where are we”, on the venerable Blue Note Records label, this album was planned largely by phone and text – a direct result of the exigencies of the pandemic - and finds Redman recording with a vocalist and writing lyrics for the first time.
Through the lens of geographic location, Redman and his band march across the United States, asking us to take a critical examination of what we find. Of this assemblage, hand-picked for this album, Redman says “The magic of this gathering of musicians, was that we were able to come together from points afar, to converge (physically and creatively) in a particular place at a particular time; and to embrace, with fullest imagination and without slightest reservation, the ethic of ‘serving the songs.’ In this sense, "where are we" is perhaps above all a meditation on the power and importance of place — the unique human beauty created when we locate ourselves in shared physical spaces together with others; the loss, anomie, and angst suffered when we divide ourselves unnaturally and unjustly apart.”
But he wasn’t supposed to be a musician. In 1991 Redman graduated from Harvard College summa cum laude and had already been accepted by Yale Law School, having deferred entrance for what was only supposed to be one year. Instead, he moved to New York City and immediately found himself immersed in the jazz scene. Five months later, Redman won the prestigious Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition and began touring and recording with jazz masters such as Jack DeJohnette, Charlie Haden, Elvin Jones, Joe Lovano, Pat Metheny, Paul Motian, Dewey Redman, and Clark Terry. Born in Berkeley, California, he is the son of legendary saxophonist Dewey Redman and dancer Renee Shedroff.
As renowned for his musicianship as he is for his prescient ability to assemble talent, one of Redman’s earliest bands, heard on his 1994 album MoodSwing, includes musicians who would later become some of the most influential artists of their generation: pianist Brad Mehldau, bassist Christian McBride and drummer Brian Blade. They reunited nearly 30 years later, releasing RoundAgain (2020) and LongGone (2022) to resounding critical acclaim and sold-out performances worldwide.
He has recorded nearly two dozen albums, but Redman’s prodigious talent has taken him beyond the bandstand as well: helming the creation of the SFJAZZ Collective, an ensemble distinguished by a unique emphasis on composition; expanding jazz departments via his appointments as a Visiting Artist at Stanford University and as the Artistic Director of the Roots, Jazz, and American Music program at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music; and writing music for film. He wrote and performed the music for Louis Malle’s final film “Vanya on 42nd Street” and is both seen and heard in the Robert Altman film Kansas City.
He has recorded and/or performed with a vast array of luminaries, both in jazz and beyond: Dave Brubeck, Chick Corea, The Dave Matthews Band, Herbie Hancock, Elvin Jones, Quincy Jones, Big Daddy Kane, B.B. King, Yo-Yo Ma, The Rolling Stones, The Roots, McCoy Tyner, and Stevie Wonder, to name a few.
Season Tickets
Individual tickets for the 2024-2025 Spectacular Jazz Series and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Series are now available online at www.scmcgr.org or by calling 616-459-2224. Detailed information for all concerts can be viewed at www.scmcgr.org.
**Ticket prices: There is a $7 fee on each subscription ticket. Single tickets have a $4.00 per ticket fee. All concerts start at 7:30pm.
SUBSCRIPTION TICKETS BENEFITS By subscribing to the Chamber and Jazz Series (six concerts), you receive 20% off the single ticket price.
- By subscribing to either the Chamber or Jazz Series (four concerts), you receive 15% off the single ticket price.
- Subscriptions are not offered for the Folk Series, however as a subscriber to Chamber or Jazz, you will have the benefit of purchasing tickets to these concerts first prior to the public sale. (Folk Series Concerts will be announced this summer and throughout the season as these concerts are booked
- Subscribers have the benefit of choosing their seats and are guaranteed those seats for the season.
Purchase Subscription Tickets online at www.scmcgr.org or by calling 616-459-2224. Contact the Box Office Manager at tickets@scmcgr.org or 616-459-2224 x201 with questions. **Ticket prices: There is a $7 fee on each subscription ticket. All concerts begin at 7:30 p.m.
Spectacular Jazz Series Tickets
Joshua Redman
Friday, October 4, 2024
A section $60
B section $45
C section $30
