James Farm: Newport Jazz 2011

NPR | By Patrick Jarenwattananon

Published August 7, 2011 at 5:50 PM EDT

Joshua Redman, on saxophone, and Eric Harland, on drums, perform as half of James Farm on the Fort Stage during the Newport Jazz Festival.

No, there's no hot new wunderkind on the scene named James Farm. But the four men who comprise this collective quartet do share an aesthetic mission: For their self-titled 2011 album, they organically cultivated ten songs, nourished in fertile, rippling grooves. Saxophonist Joshua Redman represents the chief melodic voice in this enterprise as it harvests the fruits of its labor at the Fort Stage of the 2011 Newport Jazz Festival.

Personnel

Joshua Redman, saxophones

Aaron Parks, piano

Matt Penman, bass

Eric Harland, drums

Set List

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I-10