Joshua Redman
Birth Name:
Joshua Redman
Birth Place:
Berkeley, California, United States
Profession
Actor, Soundtrack, Music department
Fast Facts
- Named winner at the 1991 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Saxophone Competition
- Graduated summa cum laude from Harvard with a social studies degree in 1991
- Initially intended to attend Yale Law, where he was accepted after Harvard, however, he would never return
- Son of well-known jazz saxophonist, Dewey Redman
- Relocated to Brookyln, New York, after college, where he would begin collaborating with Pat Metheny, Peter Bernstein and several others
- Released his debut album in 1993 under Warner Bros․ Records
- Began playing the clarinet at nine-years-old and the saxophone a year later