Joshua Redman 3x3 and all that jazz at the Wortham next week. Joshua_Redman WorthamCenter
swore, “I’m hardly the intellectual,” in a recent phone chat with the, after sounding rather professorial discussing his latest project. Like good students, we scribbled notes and marveled at our luck getting to sit for a bit of a masterclass from one of jazz’s tenured geniuses.Houston SUMMERJAZZ
“I think also they were all composers working within the jazz idiom writing incredibly innovative, sophisticated music and yet, at the same time, their songs are kind of imminently playable,” he continued. “I think there are some composers and you listen to their works and they’re awesome and awe-inspiring composition statements but they can’t necessarily be played in many different ways in many different interpretations.
“If a song has a really, really strong melody and a really strong sense of bass motion, a lot of the central information is either there or implied by just those two voices, the melody and the bass,” he said.
Because it all sounds so heady, we ask Redman if there’s some guilty pleasure he enjoys, an interest that he’d admit to that brings him back down to us mere mortals. Maybe a favorite trash TV show, we suggest? “I guess I’m kind of into running,” he said, with a little less verve than he allows when the subject is coffee. Running, he said, is a newer fascination. “I had never run a race before. I did a half-marathon in February so now I’m hoping to run a marathon in a few weeks, so we’ll see what happens.”
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