Joshua Redman Quartet
Troy Music Hall
Troy, NY
1994-11-19

Source: NPR JazzSet > FM > Aiwa AD-F810 > MC (SA-X100) (no dolby) by Mark Goldey
Transfer: MC > Nak Dragon > Tascam DA-3000 (DSF 1-bit/5.6 MHz) > Tascam HRE > PCM @ 2496
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01. One-ness Of Two In Three
02. Alone In The Morning

Encore:
03. SJK (or Blue SGK) *

Joshua Redman - sax
Christian McBride - bass
Brian Blades - drums
Johnny King - piano
* Roy Hargrove, trumpet

Opened for Roy Hargrove.

I recorded this when it was broadcast on NPR's JazzSet, probably in April 1995. NPR titles the last track "SJK" but at the time I wrote Blue SKG and noted that it was the encore, which is not evident from the recording and must have been stated on the air. There is some FM static noticeable in the first part of Alone In The Morning, and elsewhere. Fortunately, Johnny King's solo is unscathed.

The date is confirmed by https://www.nippertown.com/2020/11/19/november-19-on-this-date-in-local-518-concert-history/ and also here, http://internal.wbgo.org/blog/this-week-in-jazzset-history-david-murray-big-band-and-josh-redman. NPR's website has links to some of the audio, which are broken, and the following description:

"On November 19, 1994, JazzSet's Duke Markos recorded a double bill at the Troy Savings Bank Musical Hall in Troy, NY, presenting the Joshua Redman Quartet plus the Roy Hargrove Quintet. The quartet was Redman, tenor and soprano sax; Jonny King, piano; Christian McBride, bass; Brian Blade, drums. Redman’s band played first that evening but invited Hargrove on stage for Josh's final tune “SJK,” a blues in D-flat. Listen closely. After Redman introduces Hargrove, the rhythm section begins to play the Freddie Hubbard tune “Thermok,” as broadcast on JazzSet in early April 1995."

"Here is a clip of Joshua Redman on tenor playing the melody to his own tune entitled “Alone in the Morning.” He first begins by closing out the melody with long drawn out lyricism. His solo begins afterward and he plays with one motive, switching it up and crafting it against the harmony. This is a tactic of improvisation Sonny Rollins uses many times in his early years. It makes sense that the first record Redman ever bought, when he was nine years old, was the Rollins recording Saxophone Colossus. Listen closely for the “St. Thomas” quote at the end of the clip!"

For what it's worth, Redman said something different in an interview in 2010 that: “The first record that I actually went out and bought? Ummm… It might have been a Prince record, ‘Dirty Mind.’ Or it could have been a Stevie Wonder album. Maybe it was a Beatles record and maybe it was a Police record. I was listening to jazz back then, too. I remember checking out of the music library with a copy of Sonny Rollins’ ‘Saxophone Colossus,’ which was an incredibly influential record for me. But the first record that I bought probably wasn’t a jazz album.”

So there.

Enjoy!

--mhg :: 2021-08-29