| Wish | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Joshua Redman |
| Cover: | Joshua Redman - Wish.jpg |
| Released: | 21 September 1993 |
| Studio: |
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| Genre: | Jazz |
| Label: | Warner Bros. |
| Producer: | Matt Pierson |
| Prev Title: | Joshua Redman |
| Prev Year: | 1993 |
| Next Title: | African Venus |
| Next Year: | 1994 |
Wish is the second studio album by jazz saxophonist Joshua Redman; it was released in 1993 by Warner Bros. Records.[1]
Joshua Redman said that "one of the reasons I wanted to work with these guys — aside from the obvious fact that they're masters — is because they're master storytellers." He said he was pleased with it because "it has a definite collective identity, a real organic unity."[2]
The AllMusic review by Alex Henderson notes that although the album could have easily been avant-garde (due to Charlie Haden and Billy Higgins having been part of Ornette Coleman's quartet), it is actually a "mostly inside post-bop date". He also praises Redman's "ability to provide jazz interpretations of rock and R&B songs", saying that "in Redman's hands, Stevie Wonder's "Make Sure You're Sure" becomes a haunting jazz-noir statement, while Eric Clapton's ballad "Tears in Heaven" is changed from moving pop/rock to moving pop-jazz", noting that the latter could be called "smooth jazz with substance."
It peaked at number 1 on the Billboard Top Jazz Albums chart.[3]