Bring on the Night, by Sting (1986): Last week I was praising artistic risk taking, and Sting's post-Police solo project certainly involved risks. Before he slid slowly into adult contemporary malaise, he put together a band of young jazz guys and produced some of the best art-pop/jazz outside of Steely Dan. The studio album that resulted, Dream of the Blue Turtles, is good, but this -disc live set is outstanding. The new tunes work better live than on record and the old Police tunes, reworked to fit the skills of Marsalis, Jones, Hakim, and Kirkland, are great.
Wednesday, February 07, 2007
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