Joshua Redman - Timeless Tales '1998

Tracks list

Tracklist

01. Summertime 
02. Interlude 1 
03. Visions 
04. Yesterdays 
05. Interlude 2 
06. I Had a King 
07. The Times They Are A-Changin 
08. Interlude 3 (
09. It Might as Well Be Spring 
10. Interlude 4 
11. How Deep Is the Ocean? 
12. Interlude 3 
13. Love for Sale 
14. Interlude 6 
15. Eleanor Rigby 
16. Interlude 7 
17. How Come U Dont Call Me Anymore?

personnel : 

Joshua Redman - Saxophone (Alto), Saxophone (Soprano), Saxophone (Tenor)
Brad Mehldau - Piano
Brian Blade - Drums 
Larry Grenadier - Bass

Picking up on Herbie Hancocks New Standards idea, borrowing some old standards,
and splitting the total down the middle, Joshua Redman lends his warm fatback
tone, arching skyward passages and a post-bop quartet concept to ten popular
songs of the 20th century. Richard Rodgers, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Irving
Berlin, and the Gershwins share space with the Beatles, Joni Mitchell, Bob
Dylan, Stevie Wonder and Prince -- distinguished songwriters all, yet the
scorecard tells us that the oldsters tunes consistently receive more interesting
treatment than the rock/folk songs. Yesterdays is flexible enough to turn almost
into an acoustic funk thing; How Deep Is the Ocean saunters along very
soulfully; the near cha cha rhythm on Love for Sale pulls some inspired heat
from Redman. On the other side of the divide, The Times They Are A-Changin isnt
very interesting, where even tricky rhythm changes and an Eddie Harris-like high
note coda cant pump up an earthbound performance. Eleanor Rigby fragments under
a jazz waltz treatment presumably planned with Coltranes My Favorite Things in
mind (Redmans soprano sounds desperately out of gas at the close). Oddly enough,
a broadly funky Harris approach pays off on Princes How Come U Dont Call Me
Anymore, the sole exception to the pattern. This is not to say that the
rock/folk material is intrinsically inferior to the Tin Pan Alley standards --
no way. They simply do not translate very well into the language of the young
neo-boppers, or at least, these neo-boppers on this given day. Brad Mehldau
(piano), Larry Grenadier (bass) and Brian Blade (drums) make up the technically
faultless, flexible piano trio, and most of the selections are separated by
short, untitled interludes that usually grow more or less out of the preceding
pieces. ~ Richard S. Ginell, All Music Guide



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