Back East
Context
Title track (6:40) of Back East, Redman's twelfth album as a leader. It recalls Sonny Rollins's Way Out West (1957) through its piano-less tenor trio format; Reuben Rogers and Eric Harland make up the rhythm section here.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Neoclassicism, Young Lions, Hard bop. Among the origins and influences of Neoclassicism, Young Lions: Hard bop, Modal.