Joshua Redman Solo at Rockefeller Chapel
Tonight at the Hyde Park Jazz Festival I went to see Joshua Redman play solo at Rockefeller Memorial Chapel. Rockefeller Chapel, full house. He has decent technique. Joshua Redman, just him and a tenor. But even with a well-trained ear, I couldn’t appreciate the chords, and the melodies felt clueless to me. Sometimes I couldn’t tell whether a note was intentional or a mistake, though often I could tell it was a mistake. ...