Joshua Redman
Tenor Sax Solo on
On The Sunny Side Of The Street

About

Joshua Redman delivers one chorus of tenor saxophone on Jimmy McHugh's "On the Sunny Side of the Street," a relaxed medium-swing treatment on his 1993 self-titled debut album. At approximately 121 BPM over the AABA form in C major, his solo is filled with melodic grace and rhythmic ease, his phrasing loose and conversational in a manner that suggests complete comfort with the material. As the first of two soloists, his single chorus captures the performance's unpretentious charm, demonstrating that his musical vision was broad enough to encompass the cheerful warmth of the Great American Songbook alongside the more challenging originals and bebop warhorses elsewhere on the album.

Joshua Redman was 22 to 23 years old at the time.