St. Cecilia Music Center launches this season’s Jazz Series with award-winning, GRAMMY Nominated Artist Joshua Redman on January 20, 2022. With three concerts in the Jazz Series – the Joshua Redman Trio on January 20, Dee Dee Bridgewater & Bill Charlap on March 10, and Delfeayo Marsalis and the Uptown Jazz Orchestra on April 14 – SCMC brings a new year of stellar jazz to West Michigan featuring international jazz greats. In addition to the Jazz Series, SCMC will also launch their first-ever jazz festival – WinterFest – three consecutive nights of jazz from February 24 – 26 hosted by acclaimed GRAMMY-winning jazz bassist Christian McBride and many of his friends – the Christian McBride Trio, singer Cyrille Aimee, fellow bassist Edgar Meyer, and McBride’s prolific quintet Inside Straight.
St. Cecilia Music Center Executive / Artistic Director Cathy Holbrook states “We are so excited to launch four months of great jazz performances this year beginning with Joshua Redman on January 20. Joshua is one of the most talented and sought-after jazz performers around. Along with a prolific body of celebrated recordings over 25 years, Redman has worked with countless jazz contemporaries as a follow performer and bandleader…greats like pianist Brad Mehldau, bassist Christian McBride, drummer Brian Blade, as well as, his father Dewey Redman, Jack DeJohnette, Charlie Haden, Elvin Jones, McCoy Tyner, The Bad Plus, Brooklyn Rider, Joe Lovano, Pat Metheny, Paul Motian, Clark Terry and so many others.”
Tickets to experience the Joshua Redman Trio are $45 and $55 and can be purchased online at www.scmc-online.org or by calling St. Cecilia Music Center at 616-459-2224.
NOTE: SCMC currently requires proof of fully vaccinated status, or a negative COVID test taken within 72 hours, to attend a concert at the SCMC venue. Attendees need to bring photo ID and proof of vaccination, or a negative test, the night of a concert. Home tests are not accepted. All patrons will be required to wear a mask while in the building for the duration of the concert.
If you have tickets to an upcoming performance and are unwilling or unable to abide by this policy, please contact the SCMC box office for a refund at [email protected] a minimum of 48 hours prior to the concert date.
SUBSCRIPTION TICKETS
Season subscription tickets to the 2022 Spectacular Jazz Series and WinterFest Jazz Festival are now available online at www.scmc-online.org or by calling 616-459-2224.
* Series Subscribers of SCMC WinterFest and Spectacular Jazz Series are offered with great benefits including 15-20% discount off single concert ticket prices. **Ticket prices: There is a $7 fee on each subscription ticket. Single tickets have a $3.00 per ticket fee. All concerts start at 7:30 p.m.
Spectacular Jazz Series
3-concert subscription
15% discount off single ticket prices
Subscription: $137
Plus: Add any or ALL the three WinterFest concerts to your subscription and receive 15% off the single ticket price on festival tickets.
SCMC WinterFest Subscription package
3-concert subscription
15% discount off single ticket prices
Subscription: $123
SINGLE TICKETS
Single tickets** for Jazz, WinterFest, Chamber and Folk series concerts be purchased by phone at 616-459-2224 or online at www.scmc-online.org. If SCMC can offer post-concert CD-signing receptions, all ticketholders may be able to meet some of the artists and obtain signed CDs of their releases. More about available receptions with artists will be announced prior to each of the concert dates.
Jazz Series Single Tickets
Jazz Saxophonist Joshua Redman
Thursday, January 20, 2022
A section $55
B section $45
Dee Dee Bridgewater & Bill Charlap
Thursday, March 10, 2022
A section $55
B section $50
Delfeayo Marsalis and the Uptown Jazz Orchestra
Thursday, April 14, 2022
A section $50
B section $45
SCMC WinterFest Jazz Festival Single Tickets
Christian McBride & Edgar Meyer
Thursday, February 24, 2022
A section $55
B section $50
Christian McBride Trio & Cyrille Aimee
Friday, February 25, 2022
A section $45
B section $40
Christian McBride & Inside Straight
Saturday, February 26, 2022
A section $45
B section $40
Joshua Redman Bio
Joshua Redman, one of the most acclaimed and charismatic jazz artists, has been a popular jazz artist since the 1990’s. He is the son of legendary saxophonist Dewey Redman and dancer Renee Shedroff. Joshua Redman was exposed at an early age by his parents to many genres of music – jazz, classical, rock, soul, Indian, Indonesian, Middle Eastern, and African. He was also introduced to a variety of instruments – recorder, piano, guitar, gatham, gamelan – and began playing clarinet at age nine before switching to what became his primary instrument, the tenor saxophone. The early influences of John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Cannonball Adderley and his father, Dewey Redman, as well as The Beatles, Aretha Franklin, the Temptations, Earth, Wind and Fire, Prince, The Police and Led Zeppelin drew Joshua more deeply into music. Although Joshua loved playing the saxophone and was a dedicated member of the award-winning Berkeley High School Jazz Ensemble and Combo from 1983-86, academics were always his priority and he never seriously considered becoming a professional musician.
In 1991 Redman graduated from Harvard College summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. in Social Studies. He had already been accepted by Yale Law School, but deferred entrance for what he believed was only going to be one year. Some of his friends (former students at the Berklee College of Music whom Joshua had met while in Boston) had recently relocated to Brooklyn, and they were looking for another housemate to help with the rent. Redman accepted their invitation to move in, and almost immediately he found himself immersed in the New York jazz scene. He began jamming and gigging regularly with some of the leading jazz musicians of his generation: Peter Bernstein, Larry Goldings, Kevin Hays, Roy Hargrove, Geoff Keezer, Leon Parker, Jorge Rossy and Mark Turner (to name just a few). Five months after moving to New York, Redman was named the winner of the prestigious Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition. This was only one of the more visible highlights from a year that saw Redman beginning to tour and record with jazz masters such as his father Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden, Elvin Jones, Joe Lovano, Pat Metheny, Paul Motian, and Clark Terry. For Joshua, this was a period of tremendous growth, invaluable experience, and endless inspiration. When Redman was just 22, Pat Metheny called him “the most important new musician in 20 years.”
In addition to his own projects, Joshua Redman has recorded and performed with musicians such as Brian Blade, Ray Brown, Dave Brubeck, Chick Corea, The Dave Matthews Band, Jack DeJohnette, Bill Frisell, Aaron Goldberg, Larry Goldings, Herbie Hancock, Roy Hargrove, Roy Haynes, Billie Higgins, Milt Jackson, Elvin Jones, Quincy Jones, Big Daddy Kane, Geoff Keezer, B.B. King, The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, DJ Logic, Joe Lovano, Yo Yo Ma, Branford Marsalis, Christian McBride, John Medeski, Brad Mehldau, Pat Metheny, Marcus Miller, Paul Motian, MeShell Ndegeocello, Leon Parker, Nicholas Payton, John Psathas, Simon Rattle, Dewey Redman, Dianne Reeves, Melvin Rhyne, The Rolling Stones, The Roots, Kurt Rosenwinkel, John Scofield, Soulive, String Cheese Incident, Clark Terry, Toots Thielemans, The Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, Mark Turner, McCoy Tyner, Umphrey’s McGee, US3, Bugge Wesseltoft, Cedar Walton, Stevie Wonder, Sam Yahel, and Patrick Zimmerli. Joshua Redman has been nominated for eight Grammy Awards and has garnered top honors in critics and readers polls of DownBeat, Jazz Times, Village Voice and Rolling Stone. He wrote and performed the music for Louis Malle’s final film Vanya on 42nd Street and is both seen and heard in the Robert Altman film Kansas City.
In the Joshua Redman Quartet, Redman evokes a sound that can be challenging, provocative, and forward-looking, but also hard-swinging, melodic, and soulful – music with a joyous and celebratory spirit.
St. Cecilia Music Center’s mission is to promote the study, appreciation and
performance of music in order to enrich the lives of West Michigan residents.
The Center fulfills this mission by
presenting visiting world-class artists in concert,
providing music education for all ages through our School of Music and
preserving a historic building for musical activities and community events
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