Joshua Redman Quartet: Come What May

Rating: ★★★

Record and Artist Details

Musicians:

Aaron Goldberg (p)
Joshua Redman (s)
Gregory Hutchinson (d)
Reuben Rogers (b)

Label:

Nonesuch (CD)

June/2019

Media Format:

CD

RecordDate:

2018

Redman's recent gig at the Barbican with his Old and New Dreams project showed him to be on excellent form in a piano-less trio with an additional frontline horn. This return to the quartet that has been a staple for him for a couple of decades is a consolidation for an artist in a notable phase of maturity. There is an all round confidence in Redman's playing, writing and improvising, which has a pleasing dynamic range as well as bubbling energy. For the most part he is very effective on lengthy, coiling, often rapid-fire lines that he matches with very good timbral control and articulation. Having said that, this is small group music that draws from a deep well of modern jazz in which the rhythm section has to be agile and responsive. Pianist Aaron Goldberg and double-bassist Reuben Rogers are on good form, but it is drummer Gregory Hutchinson who excels on much of the material by shaping it with both a great command of time and inventive accenting, which ensures that even tunes with the most familiarly bluesy connotations have an explosive character of their own.

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