JOSHUA REDMAN

jazz saxophonist

“Hmmmm... The first record that I actually went out and bought? That’s a tough one because I had lots of records long before I actually ever bought a record.

“Ummmm... It may have been a Prince record, ‘Dirty Mind.’ Or it could have been a Stevie Wonder album. Maybe it was a Beatles record or maybe it was a Police record.

“I was listening to jazz then -- I remember checking out of the music library with a copy of Sonny Rollins’ ‘Saxophone Colossus,’ which was an incredibly influential record for me -- but the first record that I bought probably wasn’t a jazz album.”