Sax trio albums don’t promise easy listening. Cover art for Sonny Rollins’ Way Out West, the sturdiest of the breed, braced us for a journey across arid desert terrain. Familiar tunes-“Old Cowhand” ...
When saxophonist Joshua Redman arrived on the jazz scene 18 years ago, it marked a new phase in a healthy jazz revival that has propelled the music into Lincoln Center and other upper reaches of ...