In 2011, the American piano trio The Bad Plus invited saxophonist Joshua Redman to play during a week-long residency at New York's Blue Note Club. Audience and press were very enthusiastic and after a number of joint shows, this occasion quartet entered the studio in 2014. Redman is one of the standard-bearers of the post bop that was created in the nineties and a gifted improviser. The Bad Plus is
… looking for more in composition and mainly made a name for themselves with their rock-related power sound. It's great how two worlds now come together. Redman gets and takes all his freedom but never rises above the trio. The Bad Plus plays more subtly than we are used to, without completely abandoning their robust game. Country Seat is even pure free jazz in which a certain (The Bad Plus) harness is maintained that also keeps Redman on the reins. It makes The Bad Plus Joshua Redman a quartet with its own dynamics. (MR)more
