Dewey Redman
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Dewey Redman at Moers Festival, June 2006, Germany
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Walter Dewey Redman |
| Born |
May 17, 1931 Fort Worth, Texas, United States |
| Died | September 2, 2006 (aged 75) Brooklyn, New York, United States |
| Genres | Jazz, post-bop, avant-garde jazz, free jazz |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, composer |
| Instruments | Tenor saxophone, alto saxophone, suona, clarinet |
| Labels | Impulse!, Black Saint, Galaxy, ECM |
| Associated acts | Ornette Coleman, Keith Jarrett, Old and New Dreams, Don Cherry, Ed Blackwell, Charlie Haden, Pat Metheny |
Walter Dewey Redman (May 17, 1931 – September 2, 2006) was an American jazz saxophonist, known for performing free jazz as a bandleader, and with Ornette Coleman and Keith Jarrett.
Redman played mainly tenor saxophone, though he occasionally doubled on alto saxophone, played the Chinese suona (which he called a musette) and on rare occasions played the clarinet.
His son is saxophonist Joshua Redman, and he was the nephew of big band arranger Don Redman.
Redman was born in Fort Worth, Texas. He attended I.M. Terrell High School, and played in the school band with Ornette Coleman, Prince Lasha and Charles Moffett. After high school, Redman briefly enrolled in the electrical engineering program at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, but became disillusioned with the program and returned home to Texas. In 1953, Redman earned a bachelor's degree in Industrial Arts from Prairie View Agricultural and Mechanical University. While at Prairie View, he switched from clarinet to alto saxophone, then, eventually, to tenor. Following his degree, Redman served for two years in the US Army.
Upon his discharge from the Army, Redman began working on a master's degree in education at the University of North Texas. While working on his degree, he taught music to fifth graders in Bastrop, Texas, and worked as a freelance saxophonist at night and weekends around Austin, Texas. In 1957, he graduated in Education with a minor in Industrial Arts. While at North Texas, he did not enroll in any music classes.
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