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[Concert: Joshua Redman Quartet.

Featuring: Jorge Rossy, Kevin Hays & Joe Sanders] | 19 International Jazz Festival of San Javier |

Date: Friday, July 15

Time: 21: 30h

Venue: Auditorio Parque Almansa, San Javier

Admission: 15 euros

Joshua Redman, the best tenor saxophonist of his generation, in Jazz San Javier 2016

Joshua Redman is one of the most charismatic saxophonists emerged in the 90s, when he began his musical career with a surprising debut on the jazz scene in New York where he began playing with great jazz musicians of his generation as Peter Bernstein, Larry Goldings and Roy Hargrove, among many others.

Shortly after arriving in New York, Joshua Redman won the prestigious Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition, which he finished opening the doors of jazz, touring and recording with masters like his own father, the great jazz saxophonist Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden Elvin Jones and Joe Lovano.

A deep knowledge of jazz and a great talent as an instrumentalist, characterize this musician Berkley, California, who chose the saxophone at age 10, and after graduating "summa cum laude" in Social Sciences at Harvard, decided to turn himself in full music with the result of a successful career in which he has published 16 albums in September will be 17 with the release of "Nearness" which includes a selection of songs recorded live during a tour with Brad Meldhau, who was part his first band after the collaboration of the brilliant pianist Redman's third album, "Moodswing" in 1994.

Joshua Redman retains its strong roots of classic jazz from which it enters, in a creative and innovative way, in jazz fusion with huge success.

Since its inception has been invited and has been invited by great contemporary musicians like Pat Metheny, Herbie Hancock, Rolling Stones, BB King, among many others, Chick Corea with which he recorded, forming part of his sextet for the tour "Tribute to Bud Powell ".

In San Javier Jazz will perform in a quartet with the Spanish drummer greater international projection, Jorge Rossy, an old acquaintance of his early years in New York, the pianist Kevin Hays and bassist Joe Sanders.

Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier