Joshua Redman - Wish

I haven't known him, and it was a nice surprise. On an autumn morning it took a good effect on me. It's a normal jazz album, and I use this word as it doesn't have any extremity, it doesn't want to be "very somelike", etc. Normal, but from a closer view maybe nothing is normal. Jazz pieces, alternating in moods, of course, delightful songs to deeper kind of melodies. Yes, this album has other sides as well. Let's hear the third track, Make sure you're sure or We had a Sister for instance, which are quite interesting with its uncertain beauty, and a meaning which comes from another sphere. Starting with Pat Metheny's guitar part, and the first saxophone sounds set the atmosphere effectively. After it, the beautiful melancholy/mystery takes its place for the cool The deserving many. This kind of quartet works very well on this album: saxophone, guitar, bass and drums. Redman's saxophone playing adapts to the character of the songs very well, perfectly functionally, and the quartet shows different pieces of life, a colourful, delightful mass. The album also presents us with two live songs at the end of it.

So is this album a normal album? Does a normal album exist? In its unnormal normality, it has its own perfection. A nice piece of music, which can be soothing on an uncertain dark late-autumn afternoon.

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