This is short notice, but Rifftides just received notification that there will be a memorial service this evening for the late tenor saxophonist Dewey Redman. Readers in or near New York City may wish to know. The service will be at 7:30 p.m. at Saint Peter’s Church, Lexington Avenue and 54th Street.
Among those expected to perform in Redman’s memory are his son Joshua, Cameron Brown, Charles Eubanks, Pat Metheny, Charlie Haden, Frank Kimbrough, Geri Allen, Jack DeJohnette, Joe Lovano, Reid Anderson, John Betsch, John Menegon, Judy Silvano, Leroy Jenkins, Mark Helias,Matt Wilson, Teri Roiger, Ethan Iverson, Pheeroan AkLaff and Sheila Jordan. That’s
quite a lineup in tribute to a soloist who carried the rugged Texas tenor sax tradition into the avant garde and never lost its traces.
Redman died on September 2 in Brooklyn.