Passage of Time

Passage of Time
Studio album by Joshua Redman
Released March 27, 2001
Recorded June, 2000
Studio Avatar Studios, River Sound, Sterling Sound (all in New York City)
Genre Jazz, Post-bop
Length 54:04
Label Warner Bros.
Producer Joshua Redman
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Passage of Time is a 2001 album by jazz saxophonist Joshua Redman.

Background

In this album, Joshua Redman strings together 8 different original compositions into a continuous piece for the first time, with pianist Aaron Goldberg, bassist Reuben Rogers, and drummer Gregory Hutchinson (part of Redman's Quartet) as partners in this project.

Redman states, "One of my goals as a jazz musician is to construct a meaningful narrative. Not a literal or analytical narrative, but an emotional narrative of sound. That's how I would describe Passage Of Time: a piece of music that says something from start to finish. It tells a story. It has themes and motifs that become topics for group discussion. It's a long story, consisting of smaller ones, discovered and articulated during the music-making process. The band speaks through conversations, and our dialogues give the music feeling, purpose and direction."[2]

Reception

Richard S. Ginell of Allmusic stated "With this recording, Joshua Redman attempts a long-form composition for the first time, a series of eight numbers that form a cycle of sorts. The promotional buzz claimed that Redman was taking stock of his music ten years after winning the Thelonious Monk competition, the event that had the effect of launching him full-blown into the big time. Whether or not that's true, there is a predominantly reflective, thoughtful tone about this quartet session, split between written-out passages and flat-out improvisations. The whole thing runs for a continuous yet comfortable 52 minutes, an extension of the interlude idea that Redman played with on Timeless Tales... That said, it's hard to get really worked up about much of the material presented here; there isn't much that really touches or inflames the listener in a deep way. It's a summing up -- a coherent, mature statement in a familiar mainstream language."

Track listing

  1. "Before"
  2. "Free Speech, Phase I - Declaration"
  3. "Free Speech, Phase II - Discussion"
  4. "Our Minuet"
  5. "Bronze"
  6. "Time"
  7. "Enemies Within"
  8. "After"

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Allmusic review
  2. ↑ Passage of Time - Joshua Redman official website (accessed August 29, 2011)


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