Joshua Redman Question

I saw Joshua Redman at a concert back in April and he did a number where he would make a 'popping' noise on his tenor. In doing so, he essentially created a percussion line, between which he interspersed little riffs.

Has anyone else seen/heard him do this? Anyone have ideas how he accomplishes this? I've tried imitating it a number of ways, but never even got close to the sounds he was making.

Sorry I can't be more descriptive...

MoS

On an unrelated note, Joshua brought his Tenor with him when he entered the stage and took it with him when he left. However, his soprano and alto were brought on stage and taken away by stage hands. I wonder if he values his tenor more than the others?

It's hard to carry all three, and if you have the luxury of stage hands to do whatever you tell them, why not have them carry your other two horns? He probably carried the tenor because it's the one he played most (just a guess). Find links to saxophonia at my page:

This is probably slaptongue, you should listen to James Carter, he does that all the time. It's an old technique, Rudy Wiedoeft used it in 1920 . Use all of your tongue on the reed and blow.

Wow... all this talk about Joshua Redman all of the sudden... That's okay, he's good enough to deserve it, and no one has ever given him much mention on here before...

Are you talking about the noise that he makes in 'The Last Rights of Rock N Roll?' Just slap tongue it.

I wish Redman played alto more. I love his alto sound. However, he likes tenor more so... oh well. When I do a gig with all three, I normally ask someone to bring out my stand, and then I carry my soprano in my left hand, my tenor in my right, and my alto on my strap. Then I just place the horns down on my stand. The thing is, it looks kind of awkward. If I was a super-famous saxophone demi-god like Redman I'd probably look for another way to do it. Most likely, I'd just leave my horns on stage after the sound check and then walk out without anything when it came time to play.

Rick Busarow

I can't share with you the technique because I can't do it myself.. It is called slap tongung. King Curtis did it, James Carter, Richie Cole and I'm sure countless others do it also.

Stay on the scene like a sax machine.

Same when I saw him. Tenor is his main horn. He most likely gets the other two ready, then does his tenor last back stage, and warms up on it. I doubt it's a matter of value. He could have all three brought out if he were concerned about the value.