Texas-born jazz saxophonist Dewey Redman crossed the United States as a freelance musician during the early-to-mid 1960s before finding success within New York City's avant-garde jazz community. This ...

Dewey Redman, who died September 2, 2006 at the age of 75, will be best remembered for his work with Ornette Coleman from 1967-1974 and Keith Jarrett's "American" quartet in the mid-1970s, with an ...

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Jazz saxophonist Joshua Redman ’91 never planned to become a professional musician. Redman, who originally used his mother’s last name Shedroff, is the son of legendary saxophonist Dewey Redman, who ...

When Joshua Redman’s father heard that his son decided to skip Yale Law School to become a jazz musician, Dewey Redman knew the challenges his son faced. “I think he was, let’s just say, concerned,” ...

Joshua Redman is hardly the first jazz musician to wrestle with the legacy of an illustrious parent. But the Berkeley saxophone star’s sudden rise to prominence in the early 1990s and the abiding ...

Early in his set Saturday night at Hopkins Center for the Arts, tenor saxophonist Joshua Redman mentioned to the audience that he has been playing music with the three other musicians on stage for 21 ...

Tenor saxophonist Dewey Redman, who died last year, recorded as a sideman with Ornette Coleman, Keith Jarrett, Pat Metheny and Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra. He also led and recorded with ...