On his sixth album, Joshua Redman celebrates the full range of 20th-century popular song, from Tin Pan Alley legends Cole Porter, the Gershwins, Irving Berlin, and Rogers & Hammerstein to modern-day greats Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Stevie Wonder and Prince. With this intriguing breadth of repertoire and Redman's customary passion and virtuosity, Timeless Tales (for Changing Times) is a stunning collection of modern standards interpreted by one of the preeminent figures in contemporary jazz.
Performed with longtime collaborators Brad Mehldau, Larry Grenadier, and Brian Blade, Joshua's arrangements reinvent these songs through a number of exciting and varied approaches, transforming the familiar into the refreshingly new.
In the album's liner notes, Joshua writes, "These songs don't just move me as a listener; they engage me as a player, improviser, arranger, and bandleader. They're just ten great songs, written by ten great songwriters. Ten great songs, resilient enough to change with the times and with the artists who change them. Ten timeless tales, universal enough to have enduring cultural relevance and beautiful enough to have profound personal resonance - not just for us improvising jazz musicians, but hopefully for you imaginative jazz listeners as well."