Joshua Redman Quartet

*PLEASE NOTE: All 6PM and 8PM shows at Smoke are Dinner Shows $25.00 / $75.00 / $100.00 – Wed, Thu, Fri & Sun $25.00 / $90.00 / $120.00 -- Sat Joshua Redman – tenor saxophone Paul Cornish – piano Philip Norris – bass Nazir Ebo – drums Joshua Redman has been such a brilliant saxophone improviser for more than three decades that his unerring flawlessness at a spontaneous art almost becomes a tic. – The Guardian Joshua Redman leads his acclaimed new quartet in an auspicious SMOKE debut. This group features pianist Paul Cornish, bassist Phillip Norris, and drummer Nazir Ebo. Redman is an artist who resonates deeply in the jazz world as a gifted improviser, a charismatic performer, and an insightful thinker on the nature and meaning of music. After graduating summa cum laude from Harvard University, Redman deferred plans for law school and moved to New York City, immersing himself once again in the world of the arts. Here he worked with some of the greatest musicians of all time – Charlie Haden, Elvin Jones, Jack DeJohnette, Joe Lovano, McCoy Tyner, Clark Terry, Milt Jackson, and his father, Dewey Redman, to name just a few. In 1991, he won the Monk Competition, which served as a launching pad for a remarkable and vibrant career over the past 30-plus years. His latest Blue Note album, Words Fall Short, is an exciting new chapter in his story, featuring his latest compositions and this quartet. Everything Jazz calls it, “Poignant, beautiful, hopeful music. Music that – as magicked by Redman, one of jazz’s greatest living saxophonists, composers, and band leaders – is required animating, needed hearing.