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Donald's Encyclopedia of Popular MusicA B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZREDMAN, Dewey(b 17 May 1931, Fort Worth TX; d 2 September 2006, Brooklyn NY) Reeds, composer, teacher. He played in a high school marching band with Ornette Coleman, Charles Moffett, Prince Lasha. He mostly played tenor and alto saxes; the master of his instruments, he could play 'inside' or 'outside', and used ethnic elements including playing the Arabian double-reed musette. He got a degree in Education '59; went to the West Coast, worked with Pharoah Sanders, Wes Montgomery and others; to NYC '67 and played in Coleman's group until '74. Records with Coleman, Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra, Carla Bley, Roswell Rudd, Keith Jarrett (including The Survivors' Suite '77 on ECM); with Haden, Don Cherry, Ed Blackwell as Old and New Dreams on ECM. His own records include Look For The Black Star '66 on Freedom/Arista; Tarik '69 on Byg/Affinity; The Ear Of The Behearer '73 and Coincide '74 on Impulse; Musics and Soundsigns '78 on Galaxy (the former later on Fantasy/OJC); Red And Black In Willisau '80 with Blackwell and Living On The Edge '89 with Geri Allen, Cameron Brown and Eddie Moore, both on Black Saint; The Struggle Continues '82 on ECM; African Venus on Evidence and Choices on Enja, both recorded '92 with his son Joshua (see below). Walls -- Bridges '92 on Black Saint was a duo with Blackwell, and In London (Palmetto '97) captured a sparky quartet live at Ronnie Scott's. |