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Joshua Redman takes three choruses of tenor saxophone on Thelonious Monk's "Trinkle Tinkle," a challenging inclusion on his 1993 self-titled debut that demonstrates his reverence for the jazz tradition. Monk's angular AABA composition in E-flat at approximately 152 BPM presents formidable challenges with its unexpected rhythmic displacements and idiosyncratic harmony, and Redman meets them head-on with a combination of respect for Monk's aesthetic and his own post-bop vocabulary. His three-chorus solo navigates the quirky harmonic landscape while maintaining the distinctly modern sensibility that set him apart from previous generations. As the first of two soloists, his extended statement signals his awareness of his place in a lineage connecting the innovations of the 1950s to the jazz of the 1990s.
Joshua Redman was 22 to 23 years old at the time.
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