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Pianist Keith Jarrett's LP Byablue (1977, Impulse) includes his track "Konya". w/ saxophonist Dewey Redman, bassist Charlie Haden, drummer Paul Motian.

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KEITH JARRETT - Gypsy Moth

Alb. "El Juicio (The Judgement)" (1975)

Personnel:

Keith Jarrett - piano, soprano saxophone, steel drums, percussion

Dewey Redman - tenor saxophone, alto saxophone, steel drums, percussion

Charlie Haden - double bass, steel drums, percussion

Paul Motian - drums, steel drums, percussion

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saxophonist Dewey Redman (1931 - 2006)

photo: Paolo Ferraresi/JAZZPICTURES.IT

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Keith Jarrett – “The Survivors’ Suite” vinyl cover front and back (1977)

Design by Barbara Wojirsch Cover Photo by Keith Jarrett

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DEWEY REDMAN, Toronto 1990

I met jazz saxophonist Dewey Redman through my friends Jane Bunnett and Larry Cramer, who had worked with Dewey on In Dew Time, Jane’s first record. He had become a semi-regular member of Jane’s band by the turn of the ‘90s and was spending a bit of time in Toronto, which I took as an opportunity to get a portrait session with Dewey in my studio – which had the advantage of being just around the corner from Jane and Larry’s house in Parkdale. I was grateful for any opportunity to do a real, sit-down portrait with jazz musicians at the time as I was (as I’ve said many times before) desperate to do the kind of work I’d admired by photographer like William Claxton and Dennis Stock, documenting the jazz scene of their time.

Dewey Redman was born in Fort Worth, Texas and played in his high school band with Ornette Coleman, Charles Moffett and Prince Lasha. After going to college and doing his service in the U.S. Army, he moved to San Francisco and finally ended up joining Coleman’s band in 1968, alongside Don Cherry, Charlie Haden and Ed Blackwell, with whom he would later form the band Old and New Dreams. Redman played in Keith Jarrett’s American Quartet and was a member of Haden’s Liberation Music Orchestra, as well as playing and recording with Paul Motian, Michael Benita, Pat Metheny, Randy Weston and many others, recording his own solo records for labels like Impulse!, Black Saint, ECM, Enja and others. While associated with the avant-garde in jazz, Dewey was also fond of evoking the growling sound of the blues and R&B tenor players he listened to and played with when he was a young man.

The studio space where I photographed Dewey Redman was my bedroom in a shared loft apartment in Parkdale, with the furniture pushed to the walls to make space for my backdrop and lights. I didn’t do anything adventurous with the shoot – just a dark gray backdrop and a single soft light to one side – a “classic” setup copied from the photographers of the ‘50s and ‘60s I admired. Dewey was one of the funniest people I’d ever met, and I’d see him crack up everyone on the bandstand during rehearsals many times. I hope I’ve managed to convey something of that side of his nature in these photos.

I mostly shot black and white with a single roll of colour slide, and not-so-secretly hoped that one of these shots might end up on an album cover, but they remained unpublished until I revisited them on my old blog nearly ten years ago. I also shot a few rolls of Dewey playing in concert with Jane, using my Rolleiflex locked off on a tripod. I took a few of these prints with me when I visited Dewey in his apartment in Flatbush several months later, where he pointed to the Polaroid I’d taken of him and his Australian girlfriend tucked into the corner of the massive TV set in his bedroom. Dewey Redman died of liver failure in NYC in Sept. 2006.

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Ornette Coleman - Berliner Jazztage 1971

Jay Korber is on a roll over on YouTube lately, sharing some true treasures for us mere mortals. Exhibit A: this radical 44 minutes of Ornette Coleman's quartet in full color in 1971 — looking great, sounding great, being great. Ornette is the guy in charge, of course, but this really feels like a band, especially with the addition of Dewey Redman on second sax.

“I loved the way Dewey played,” Charlie Haden told Ethan Iverson a while back. “He had a beautiful sound that blended with Ornette. I was surprised that Ornette would get another saxophonist, but it had to be Dewey. There’s only a very few musicians that experience the way of improvising that comes from Ornette’s concept. When Keith [Jarrett] heard Dewey, he came up to me and said, 'Introduce me to that saxophonist!'”

More Ornette? Oh yeah. Canary Records recently posted the hard-to-come-by Chappaqua Suite. Get it while it's hot.