{"id":122757,"date":"2026-11-01T10:06:37","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T02:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jazzmore.cn\/articles\/joshua-redman-sonny-rollins-tribute-album-if-ever-you-would-leave-us\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T10:06:37","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T02:06:37","slug":"joshua-redman-sonny-rollins-tribute-album-if-ever-you-would-leave-us","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/jazzmore.cn\/en\/articles\/joshua-redman-sonny-rollins-tribute-album-if-ever-you-would-leave-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Joshua Redman to Release Sonny Rollins Tribute Album, If Ever You Would Leave Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saxophonist Joshua Redman\u2019s third Blue Note album, If Ever You Would Leave Us (we play for Rollins), is due out on November 20, 2026. It features 11 Sonny Rollins compositions performed by musicians in a range of lineups. A Blue Note Records press release describes the album as a tribute to the \u201cColossus of the Saxophone.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>An Album Set in Motion by a Series of Calls<\/h2>\n<p>The press release recounts how the album began: on the morning after Rollins died, Redman felt he had to do something for Sonny but did not know where to begin, so he started calling friends and colleagues. A group of musicians quickly agreed to take part, and they recorded the album in New York within a few weeks. Participants include drummer Marcus Gilmore; bassists Christian McBride and Larry Grenadier; pianist Kevin Hays; guitarist Peter Bernstein; tenor saxophonist Chris Potter; and singers C\u00e9cile McLorin Salvant and Gabrielle Cavassa. Hays and Bernstein had both previously played in Rollins\u2019s band.<\/p>\n<h2>Three Early Singles<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>\u300aGrand Street\u300b<\/strong>: The album\u2019s first single, originally recorded on Rollins\u2019s Sonny Rollins And The Big Brass. This version features Redman, Bernstein, McBride and Gilmore; Gilmore\u2019s grandfather, drummer Roy Haynes, played on the original recording.<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u300aGod Bless the Child\u300b<\/strong>: Sung by Gabrielle Cavassa, with Bernstein, McBride and Gilmore. This version follows the arrangement and harmonic structure of Rollins\u2019s 1962 album The Bridge, with Cavassa on the melody and Redman accompanying her. The song is a signature Billie Holiday standard, and the press release describes this performance as \u201ca tribute to a tribute.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u300aIf Ever I Would Leave You\u300b<\/strong>: Released on October 30 and echoing the album title. Rollins recorded this standard on his 1962 album What\u2019s New? Redman performs it here in a bright, swinging quartet with Hays, Grenadier and Gilmore.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>\u201cLike Losing a Parent\u201d<\/h2>\n<p>Redman said in the press release: \u201cSonny\u2019s passing really hit me hard. It was like losing a parent. To me\u2014and I think to all of us\u2014he was a musical father, grandfather and godfather.\u201d The release also notes that Redman discovered Rollins\u2019s music in the record stacks at the Berkeley Public Library when he was ten or eleven and first learning saxophone. His own development has remained intertwined with Rollins\u2019s work ever since.<\/p>\n<p>If Ever You Would Leave Us (we play for Rollins) is Redman\u2019s third album for Blue Note and will be released on November 20, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Sources:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bluenote.com\/joshua-redman-shares-if-ever-i-would-leave-you\/\">Blue Note Records: \u201cJoshua Redman Shares \u2018If Ever I Would Leave You\u2019 From Sonny Rollins Tribute Album\u201d (October 30, 2026)<\/a>\uff1b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bluenote.com\/joshua-redman-shares-god-bless-the-child\/\">\u201cGod Bless the Child\u201d single announcement (October 9)<\/a>\uff1b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bluenote.com\/joshua-redman-celebrates-sonny-rollins\/\">Album announcement (September 15)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joshua Redman\u2019s third Blue Note album, If Ever You Would Leave Us (we play for Rollins), arrives November 20 with 11 Sonny Rollins compositions and three advance singles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":122235,"template":"","article_category":[3279,3285],"article_tag":[3297,3302],"class_list":["post-122757","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_category-news-en","article_category-jazz-news","article_tag-album-releases","article_tag-new-albums"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - 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