This album is dedicated to all those folks, all around the world, of all ages, identities, allegiances and

persuasions, who come out, day to day, night after night, to see and hear live jazz —

To the Jazz Audience, in its lovely, motley, vast, dwindling, endangered, invincible Entirety:

die-hard regulars and reluctant first-timers, casual club-hoppers and front-row fans, skeptics and

true-believers, converts and apostates, passionates and cerebrals, immersive participants and detached

observers… and everyone, Everyone, in between…..

You watch, you listen, you support, you reject, you critique, you embrace, you receive, you transmit, you

analyze, you synthesize, you contemplate, you act.

You're interested, you're unconvinced, you're inspired, you're confused.

You bear witness to this music; you testify to that moment.

You are here. You were there. You made it possible. You make it real. You are the reason. You were the point.

You enliven. You sustain. You communicate. You create.

You are jazz.

Jazz is You.

-Joshua Redman, January 2014

Nonesuch Records releases saxophonist Joshua Redman’s Trios Live on June 17, 2014. The album was recorded at New York City’s Jazz Standard and Washington, DC’s Blues Alley during stands with two different trios—Redman and drummer Gregory Hutchinson with bassist Matt Penman (Jazz Standard) and Redman and Hutchinson with bassist Reuben Rogers (Blues Alley). Trios Live features four original tunes by Redman and interpretations of three additional songs. The album is available for pre-order at nonesuch.com with an instant download of Redman’s song “Soul Dance” from the record, which you can hear below.

“This album is dedicated to all those folks, all around the world, of all ages, identities, allegiances, and persuasions, who come out, day to day, night after night, to see and hear live jazz,” Redman says in the album’s liner notes. “You bear witness to this music; you testify to that moment. You are here. You were there. You made it possible. You make it real. You are the reason. You were the point.”

The New York Times has said, “Joshua Redman is one of the most visible jazz musicians of the last 15 years, which says something not just about his natural flow as an improviser and his command as a bandleader, but also about his willingness to use words…to represent jazz to the outside world.” Redman’s first self-titled studio album was released by Warner Bros. in 1993; eight additional records followed on Warner. His Nonesuch debut, Momentum, was released in 2005, along with the first of two SFJAZZ Collective albums on which he served as artistic director. Next Nonesuch released Back East, Redman’s first studio recording with an acoustic trio, followed by Compass, which featured double trios, and James Farm, a collaboration with pianist Aaron Parks, bassist Matt Penman, and drummer Eric Harland.

Last year, Nonesuch released Walking Shadows, comprising 12 ballads; it was Redman’s first recording to include an orchestral ensemble, and it was produced by Redman’s friend and frequent collaborator Brad Mehldau. Redman regularly tours the world with various ensembles. In fall 2014, Redman, with Reuben Rogers and Greg Hutchinson will be playing trio dates in the US.

1. Moritat (Mack the Knife) (Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht)

2. Never Let Me Go (Raymond Evans and Jay Livingston)

3. Soul Dance (Joshua Redman)

4. Act Natural (Joshua Redman)

5. Mantra #5 (Thelonious Monk)

6. Trinkle, Tinkle (Thelonious Monk)

7. The Ocean (Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, John Bonham and Robert Plant)

Joshua Redman
- Tenor saxophone
- Soprano saxophone

Matt Penman - Bass

Reuben Rogers - Bass

Gregory Hutchinson - Drums