Joshua Redman Quartet ft Gabrielle Cavassa

Name: Joshua Redman Quartet ft Gabrielle Cavassa
Start: 2024-06-23T16:00:00-07:00
Location: 14210 Bacchus Landing Way, Healdsburg, CA 95448

Schedule

Sun Jun 23 2024 at 04:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

14210 Bacchus Landing Way, Healdsburg, CA 95448 | Healdsburg, CA

There’s an early moment on Joshua Redman’s 2023 album where are we that seems to open up a quietly astonishing landscape where the Berkeley saxophonist has never ventured before. The release is his first collaboration with a vocalist, captivating newcomer Gabrielle Cavassa, and his debut on his new label, the storied Blue Note Records. If the lack of capitals in the concept album’s title feels like a feint at modesty, the project’s scope speaks to Redman’s ambition. Formatted like a double LP, where we are taking an emotional x-ray of the nation via an expansive reimagining of the American Songbook, city by city. The song that first seizes the imagination is a mashup of the swaggering Count Basie classic “Going To Chicago Blues” with an interpolated motif from singer/songwriter Sufjan Stevens’ “Chicago.” With Cavassa’s beguiling blend of old-soul emotional vulnerability, legato phrasing, and cashmere-textured tone she coaxes Redman into luxuriant balladry. Forged during the first two years of the pandemic via email, text, and Zoom sessions, Redman’s relationship with Cavassa didn’t take on an in-person dimension until they started recording the album. In making his first major foray with a vocalist, he singled out a young artist just starting to introduce herself to the scene. Intriguingly, her early steps echo that route that turned Redman into a star. He famously catapulted into international visibility by taking first place at the 1991 Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition.
Cavassa, who now lives in New Orleans and spent her formative years studying jazz at San Francisco State and the sadly defunct Club Deluxe in the Haight, shared first place at the 9th Annual Sarah Vaughan International Vocal Competition in 2021. Redman notes that with the rise of Jazzmeia Horn, Veronica Swift, and Samara Joy, “It’s becoming a golden age for younger jazz vocalists,” Redman said. “I mean, female jazz vocalists are on fire.” What instantly attracted him to Cavassa’s voice was the “intimacy and vulnerability in her expression,” he says. “There’s something about her sense of melody and phrasing, the texture and mood she evokes. There’s an emotional intimacy in her sound, and a rawness and directness too.”
This event will take place at Bacchus Landing. Located at the crossroads of three of Sonoma County’s premier wine regions, Bacchus Landing in Healdsburg represents a curated collection of boutique wineries, showcasing a wide range of grape varietals and winemaking styles. These wineries include Aldina Vineyards, Convene by Dan Kosta, Dot Wine, Montagne Russe, The Setting Wines, Smith Story Wine Cellars, and Westside Sparkling. Taste the wines from the collective of world-class wineries, each with its own beautiful and spacious tasting room and enjoy wood-fired pizza from team Bacchus. Stroll the stunning Mediterranean grounds.
For this closing festival concert, Chef Mateo Granados will offer a taco plate and a small side of guacamole with pumpkin seed crackers. Taco options: goat, pork carnitas, vegetables. Mateo has been an important part of the Sonoma County food scene for years. First developing his successful food truck business, then as the chef-owner of the popular Latin-French fusion restaurant Mateo's Cocina Latina in downtown Healdsburg for over 10 years.
This concert will take place outdoors in Bacchus Landing’s beautiful courtyard with theater-style seating. Please dress for changing weather conditions. Thank you Healdsburg Jazz Patron Dan Carroll for underwriting this concert!
** SEATING CHART NOTE: $25 Student pricing Row T | Luxury Lounges (for six) | Bistro Pairs are sold as a single unit. Please note if you need to cancel/change the Luxury Lounge or Bistro Pair from your cart, you must return to the seating chart.