(Hit play on both of these videos simultaneously….)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3rZcMwp8UY

nb: Nathan Shedroff is my high school classmate at Gunn High and neighbor twice growing up in LAH; in fact we first met at Temple Emanu-El Sunday school when we were about 7 years old; about that time, Nathan’s auntie Renee became baby-mom for Dewey Redman, and (although I didn’t realize this until about 30 or 40 years later) there came into this world — although this was still some time before Plastic Alto, or my version of it — Joshua Shedroff, Nathan’s first cousin, who I have not actually met, although I did see him jam with Medeski at the old Knitting Factory in about 2000. When J. Shedroff was a senior at Harvard, he won the Monk Competition for Saxophone and put off law school, signed to Warner,  changed his nom de axe to Redman and went on the road. I thought of all this because Andrew Gilbert wrote a piece recently about how now Joshua Redman is performing as James Farm. And they are doing the Bay Area real soon. They are playing “Kuumbwa” which is the African word for “Shedroff” and then “Yoshis” which is the Japanese word for “Shedroff.” Mazel to all the Shedroffs and Redmans and them.

You can hit the Nathan part of the above mash-up about three or four times while the Joshua part rolls…