You know how it is when you go to the opticians and they ask you to read the bottom line when, in actual fact, if you could read the bottom line you wouldn't be there in the first place? I mention this because the notes on the booklet make that bottom line seem like the top line - even a visit to Specsavers wouldn't have helped! As such, I'm unable to tell you much about the background to this, not unpleasant, album.
The name of the band, Wistful Thinking, suggests that this isn't going to be a Devil Take the Hindmost tear-up and it isn't. It's more of a contemporary Mulligan/Brookmeyer* chamber music type ensemble. Exquisitely played but not one to get the adrenalin flowing. Nevertheless, it is not without merit. Despite being issued on the Outside in Music label, for most of the time the music is very much on the inside with only occasional forays into that outer world.
This is Blakeslee's debut album and possibly a hint of greater things to come. Lance
Available from tomorrow (July 30)
* I suspect the track titled Bob is probably dedicated to the late Brookmeyer.
The Long Middle; Ashokan; Bygones Are Bygones; Franklyn's Blues; Nomad's Lament; Bob; Shady Grove; Approaching Closure.
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