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Another jazz night under Joshua Redman’s stewardship. This time, more colour than the four saxs we saw in November:
This time – two pianos and two saxophones.
Still, only some of this jazz worked for us. Some was very melodic and pleasing to the ear – some was a bit complex for our taste.
Well worth hearing, though and much needed distraction from all Janie’s health stuff, which we were trying to process at that time.
This was the start of Joshua Redman’s tenure as curator of Wigmore Hall’s jazz.
I recall that we were very excited about seeing this one and yet a little disappointed with the concert in the end. We love the sound of sax, but there was something about four saxophones and nothing else that lacked colour for this jazz, to us anyway.
Here is a link to the Wigmore Hall stub for this one.
Masterful playing of course and we enjoyed our evening; just not as much as we’d hoped.