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Reddish Fetish: Llegue

By Jack Bowers
July 5, 2025
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Once the opening number is discounted as an anomaly, Llegue (pronounced yeh-geh) is a generally pleasing debut recording by the New Jersey-based Reddish Fetish octet, led by drummer

Jason Reddish

drums

" data-original-title="" title="">Jason Reddish and featuring the Jersey City All-Stars. Reddish Fetish is the fresh incarnation of a group established in the late 1960s by the leader's father, saxophonist Bill Reddish, that blended elements of jazz, rock, avant-garde and world music (as does its present-day replica) to produce its own personal sound. But that earlier band, centered in South Florida, was never recorded.

Llegue has several meanings in Spanish, one of which is "arrives" (the preferred translation here). It may also mean "crash," "bump," "hit" or "reach," none of which would be out of place when applied to Reddish Fetish. The group traverses eleven themes, but arriving at its destination involves several bumps, hits, reaches, and perhaps even a crash or two. Once

Alice Coltrane

piano
1937 - 2007

" data-original-title="" title="">Alice Coltrane's strange and meandering "Journey Into Satchidananda" is out of the way, matters become far more stable, with credible readings of Jerome Kern's heartfelt "All the Things You Are" and jazz standards by

Wayne Shorter

saxophone
1933 - 2023

" data-original-title="" title="">Wayne Shorter,

Horace Silver

piano
1928 - 2014

" data-original-title="" title="">Horace Silver,

Bobby Timmons

piano
1935 - 1974

" data-original-title="" title="">Bobby Timmons,

John Coltrane

saxophone
1926 - 1967

" data-original-title="" title="">John Coltrane,

Freddie Hubbard

trumpet
1938 - 2008

" data-original-title="" title="">Freddie Hubbard,

Billy Strayhorn

piano
1915 - 1967

" data-original-title="" title="">Billy Strayhorn and

Charlie Parker

saxophone, alto
1920 - 1955

" data-original-title="" title="">Charlie Parker, along with the traditional favorite "Greensleeves" (a.k.a. "What Child Is This"), here renamed "5 Sleeves."

The group is effective across the board, with trim solos along the way by tenor saxophonist

Ben Golder-Novick

saxophone, tenor

" data-original-title="" title="">Ben Golder-Novick, violinist Sean David Cunningham, guitarist

Jason Green

guitar
b.1973

" data-original-title="" title="">Jason Green and Reddish. There are two vocals, by

J Hacha De Zola

vocals

" data-original-title="" title="">J Hacha De Zola, on Silver's "Senor Blues" and Strayhorn's "Lush Life." After which, as if to show the opening number was no fluke, the group closes with the leader's aberrant "Shango Can Fly," which opens with an oft-repeated drum phrase, adds violin and piano, then veers well off course into a melodic thicket that presumably makes perfect sense to the musicians as it undoubtedly will have many listeners wondering what happened and why.

There are a number of pleasurable moments on Llegue, sandwiched between the peculiar opening and closing numbers. And the musicianship is first-class. In sum, a pretty good session marred by a couple of erratic musical choices.

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Track Listing

Journey Into Satchidananda; Fusion Flower; 5 Sleeves; Senor Blues; Moanin'; Naima's Bossa; Little Sunflower; Lush Life; Confirmation; Shango Can Fly.

Personnel

Roy Suter

piano

Jason Reddish

drums

Indofunk Satish

trumpet

Jason Green

guitar

Ben Golder-Novick

saxophone, tenor

Ian Kenselaar

bass, acoustic

Sean David Cunningham

violin

Jose Yogui Rosario

congas

J Hacha De Zola

vocals

Album information

Title: Llegue | Year Released: 2025 | Record Label: F & F Records

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