On his 2023 album, Where We Are, the celebrated Blue Note saxman recorded with a vocalist for the first time; Gabrielle Cavassa helps define the music without quite edging her boss out of the spotlight. With its site-specific material—including Coltrane’s “Alabama,” Springsteen’s “Streets of Philadelphia,” and Rogers and Hart’s “Manhattan”—the album is a travelogue of sorts, spiked with social commentary as well. Expect to hear the lead cut, Redman’s musical and lyrical response to George Floyd’s murder, “After Minneapolis (face toward mo[u]rning)” which takes the melody of “This Land Is Your Land” as its starting point.
Joshua Redman Group feat. Gabrielle Cavassa
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