RIP Dewey Redman

Oh no... it can't be...

Goddammit.

Do The Math have the appreciation. I don't really have anything to add to this:

Dave King has the perfect phrase to describe the late Dewey Redman, who died yesterday: “Warm modernism.” "Warm modernism" means be abstract; be surreal; be irrational — but also be an earthy motherfucker.

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Fort Worth Star-Telegram -- this one's worth quoting for the local color:

On a plaque in the new Evans plaza, he is remembered as one of a remarkable generation of jazz musicians who all grew up in the same Fort Worth neighborhood. Clarinetist John Carter was two years older, the future “King Curtis” Ousley two years younger. In the band hall at the old I.M. Terrell High School, Carter and Redman met up with a pretty good saxophone player from downtown, a kid named Ornette Coleman.

From a family of Fort Worth schoolteachers, Redman set out for college and a career as a high school band director. In his mid-30s, he left Texas to try his luck as a musician in California and New York, where he caught on with Coleman’s avant-garde band. He stayed.

At his death, Redman had not lived in Fort Worth for 40 years, and had only recently started coming back to play major music festivals.

Yet he died owning a Texas driver’s license that bore his late mother’s last address on East Jessamine Street, about a mile from the 1920s frame house on East Leuda Street where he grew up.

Also, from the NYT obit:

He played his final concert on Aug. 27 at the Charlie Parker Jazz Festival in Tompkins Square Park on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

If the Society had not been otherwise engaged on the 27th, that's where I would have been. Did anyone catch Dewey's final hit?

Comments

[Richard]

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This is very sad news indeed. Redman was IMHO one of those truly great players who never quite got the recognition he deserved.

And the first member of Keith Jarrett's American Quartet to pass away... the end is nigh