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Walter Dewey Redman (May 17, 1931 – September 2, 2006)[1] was an American saxophonist who performed free jazz as a bandleader and with Ornette Coleman and Keith Jarrett.

Dewey Redman
Redman at Moers Festival, Germany,
June 2006
Background information
Birth nameWalter Dewey Redman
Born(1931-05-17)May 17, 1931
Fort Worth, Texas, United States
DiedSeptember 2, 2006(2006-09-02) (aged 75)
Brooklyn, New York, United States
GenresJazz, avant-garde jazz, free jazz
Occupation(s)Musician, composer
Instrument(s)Tenor saxophone, alto saxophone, suona, clarinet
LabelsImpulse!, Black Saint, Galaxy, ECM

Redman mainly played tenor saxophone, though he occasionally also played alto, the Chinese suona (which he called a musette), and clarinet. His son is saxophonist Joshua Redman.


Biography


Redman was born in Fort Worth, Texas. He attended I.M. Terrell High School, and played in the school band with Ornette Coleman, Prince Lasha, and Charles Moffett.[2][3] After high school, he briefly enrolled in the electrical engineering program at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama but became disillusioned with the program and returned home to Texas. In 1953, he earned a bachelor's degree in Industrial Arts from Prairie View Agricultural and Mechanical University. While at Prairie View, he switched from clarinet to alto saxophone, then to tenor. After graduating, he served for two years in the U. S. Army.[4]

After his discharge from the Army, Redman began working on a master's degree in education at the University of North Texas. While working on his degree, he taught music to fifth graders in Bastrop, Texas and worked as a freelance saxophonist at night and weekends in Austin, Texas. In 1957, he graduated in Education with a minor in Industrial Arts.[5] While at North Texas, he did not enroll in any music classes.[6]

In 1959, he moved to San Francisco, resulting in a collaboration with clarinetist Donald Garrett.[5][7]

Redman was best known for his 1968-1972 collaboration with saxophonist Ornette Coleman, with whom he had performed in his Fort Worth high school marching band. He also played in pianist Keith Jarrett's American Quartet (1971–1976). Jarrett's The Survivors' Suite was voted Jazz Album of the Year by Melody Maker in 1978. In the 1970s Redman formed the quartet Old and New Dreams with Don Cherry, Charlie Haden, and Ed Blackwell. They recorded four albums in the period to 1987.

Redman recorded as a sideman with Paul Motian and Pat Metheny. In 1981 he performed at the Woodstock Jazz Festival for the tenth anniversary of the Creative Music Studio. He was the subject of the award-winning documentary film Dewey Time directed by Daniel Berman (2001).

On February 19 and 21, 2004, he played tenor saxophone as a special guest with Jazz at Lincoln Center in a concert entitled "The Music of Ornette Coleman". Reviewing the performance, Howard Mandell wrote, "Redman, a veteran of Coleman's bands, played on 'Ramblin' and 'Peace', demonstrating more originality, maturity and conviction than anyone else on the bandstand."[8]

Redman died of liver failure in Brooklyn, New York, on September 2, 2006.[9] He is buried at the Calverton National Cemetery in Calverton, Suffolk County, New York.[10]


Discography


Portrait by Gert Chesi (1986)
Portrait by Gert Chesi (1986)

As leader



As Old and New Dreams


With Ed Blackwell, Don Cherry and Charlie Haden


As sideman


With Jane Bunnett

With Ornette Coleman

With Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra

With Keith Jarrett

With Paul Motian

With Michel Benita

With others


References


General references

Inline citations

  1. "Jazz Police – Dewey Redman, an Enduring Original, 1931–2006". Archived from the original on October 29, 2006. Retrieved September 2, 2017.
  2. "Dewey Redman" (PDF). Texas State University–San Marcos. Retrieved July 26, 2012.
  3. Litweiler, John (1994) [1992]. "Chapter 1". Ornette Coleman: A Harmolodic Life (paperback ed.). New York: Da Capo. pp. 27–30. ISBN 0-306-80580-4.
  4. Ratliff, Ben (September 4, 2006). "Dewey Redman, 75, Jazz Saxophonist, Dies". Retrieved July 20, 2021 via NYTimes.com.
  5. Obituary: Dewey Redman Dies, Down Beat, September 5, 2006
  6. University of North Texas Registrar Records
  7. Redman, Dewey (Walter) at jazz.com
  8. "Jazz At Lincoln Center Vs. Ornette Coleman : Features : One Final Note". www.onefinalnote.com. Retrieved September 2, 2017.
  9. Fordham, John (October 3, 2006). "Obituary: Dewey Redman". The Guardian. Retrieved July 10, 2018.
  10. "Dewey Redman (1931–2006)". Find a Grave. Retrieved September 2, 2017.



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[de] Dewey Redman

Dewey Redman (* 17. Mai 1931 in Fort Worth, Texas; † 2. September 2006 in Brooklyn/New York City, New York) war ein US-amerikanischer Freejazz- und Bebop-Saxophonist. Er spielte hauptsächlich Tenorsaxophon, gelegentlich jedoch auch Altsaxophon, Suona und selten auch Klarinette.
- [en] Dewey Redman

[es] Dewey Redman

Dewey Redman (Fort Worth, de Texas, 17 de mayo de 1931- Nueva York, 2 de septiembre de 2006) fue un saxofonista tenor estadounidense de jazz. Seguidor de John Coltrane, trabajó en muchos estilos, desde la vanguardia jazzística hasta el blues, pasando también por el bop.



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