For those unaware, The Reddish Fetish with The Jersey City All Stars’ brand new album Llegue is a tribute by drummer Jason T. Reddish to his father’s music of the late 1960’s and is an adventurous mix of hard bop, fusion and the avant-garde, all played with a great deal of spirit.

Back in the 1960’s, saxophonist Bill Reddish led the Reddfish Fetish, a group in South Florida that blended together jazz, rock, avant-garde explorations, and aspects of World Music to form its own unclassifiable fusion of exciting and influential music.

The innovative electric bassist Jaco Pastorius often sat in with the influential group and considered Reddish to be a mentor.

Unfortunately the Reddish Fetish never recorded but on Llegue, his recording debut as a leader, Bill’s son drummer-percussionist Jason T. Reddish has revived the group’s now-legendary music and sound.

He utilizes an octet that also includes pianist-keyboardist Roy Suter, Ben Golder-Novick on tenor and clarinet, trumpeter Indofunk Satish, vionlist Sean David Cunningham, guitarist Jason Green, bassist Ian Kenselaar, and Jose Yogui Rosario on congas.

1. Journey Into Satchidananda
2. All The Things You Are
3. Fusion Flower
4. 5 Sleeves
5. “Senor Blues”
6. Moanin
7. Naima’s Bossa
8. Little Sunflower
9. Lush Life
10. Confirmation
11. Shango Can Fly

This relentlessly rhythmic new recording opens on the expansively luxuriant Journey Into Satchidananda and then we get the fervently joyful All The Things You Are, the veritably psychedelically-hued Fusion Flower, the free-flowing 5 Sleeves and the blues-jazz smoked “Senor Blues”.

Along next is the finger-snapping beauty Moanin which is in turn backed by the elegantly languishing Naima’s Bossa, the upbeat, gentle swing of the decadent Little Sunflower, an emboldened Lush Life, the set rounding out on the playful Confirmation, closing on the rhythmically drum-fed Shango Can Fly.

Llegue is not only an homage, but an exhilarating visit to a time when many different styles were colliding and creating exciting new music with unlimited potential. In addition to looking at an undocumented past, Llegue gives listeners a possible path to the future of creative music.