Keith Jarrett - Memories of Tomorrow. The most artistically successful of these recent fusions, the jazz-based band Weather Report and the pop group Steely Dan, succeeded in part because they largely eschewed improvisation, swing and the three-chord simplicities of traditional rock in favor of angular riffs and pastel tone poems.Though Sting follows a similar approach, it works only fitfully. It manages to transcend the self-centered "solo album" format with every collective breath it takes. Aghh! Lyle Mays - James. "Musician, 12/87"It's a song selection, rather than an album that sounds like a unified piece of work. Am I the patrician white rock star Or am I the novice I really had to assess what I was. Then there's Omar, who thinks he's a good drummer but really he's nowhere as good as me. Body and Soul vers.2. "International Musician, '85"I composed a lot of the songs on keyboard anyway, so those basic parts were already written. It wasn't marketed that way. Played throughout the 1985/86 tour, a live version of the track recorded in Arnhem can be found on the ‘Bring on The Night’ album. And the analogy is this band. PersonnelSting: Guitar, Vocals Bass on 'Moon Over Bourbon Street'Omar Hakim: DrumsKenny Kirkland: KeyboardsDarryl Jones: BassBranford Marsalis: Saxophones and Miscellaneous Percussion (Courtesy of CBS Records)Dollette McDonald: Backing VocalsJanice Pendarvis: Backing VocalsPete Smith, Sting, Danny Q, Elliot Jones, Jane Alexander, Vic Garbarini, The Nannies Chorus, Rosemary Purt, Stephanie Crewdson, Joe, Kate, Michael Sumner: Additional Backing VocalsEddy Grant: Congas on 'Consider Me Gone' (Courtesy of Ice Records)Frank Opolko: Trombone on 'Love Is The Seventh Wave'Sergei Prokofiev: Theme on 'Russians', 44/876 (Digital Deluxe Album & Target Physical Exclusive), The Last Ship (Original Broadway Cast Recording), The Last Ship (standard & vinyl editions). "In January 1985, Sting went to New York to recruit a new band, enlisting Garbarini to help him. Karaoke. Blue Lou. More than you know. Leon Russel - Masquerade. Morning (Poem From The Movie Il Postino) Lyrics 0:56 . So I can't really take that kind of stuff seriously. So we shared the royalties. Although I believed that the Police had thrived on the limitations of being a small band, I was more than ready after seven years to fly the coop. Bob Dylan. (How many spotty-faced kids out there watching Countdown know who Mephistopheles is? I didn't do this out of any dissatisfaction with the Police. Despite all the guff you may have heard about 'The Dream Of The Blue Turtles' being a jazz inspired album, forget it. Yet that's exactly what Sting has done with 'The Dream of the Blue Turtles', his solo debut.Unlike the outside projects of his cohorts Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers, this is no mere Policeman's holiday, for what Sting has attempted is a marriage of pop and bop that pushes beyond the traditional notion of fusion music.Rather than try to mix and match the two styles, Sting works a middle ground that leaves room enough for a walking bass and aggressive solos and, at the same time, sticks plenty close to the melody. "Los Angeles News, 6/85On the dream that inspired the album's title..."These massive, macho, virile prehistoric blue turtles were rolling around, doing back flips, wrecking everything. Band Call. Ecouter Moon Over Bourbon Street gratuitement (chanson sortie 1985). Body and Soul vers.1. This is music fully liberated from the three-man reggae-pop cage of the Police. I'm from my own kind of ghetto. So I did play some of the bass, but the motherlode of the work was done by Darryl, largely because he's just a wonderful player and can do things I can't. He's kind of cute. Bourbon Street. They all wanted to do it, which I think is a great tribute to me, because they don't particularly like rock music. Lyrics. Review from The Miami Herald by Tom MoonUsing opium as the connecting image, a historian draws sharp parallels between the loss of young life during World War I and drug abuse today. Georgia on my mind ... Take the A train. I was trapped in this life like an innocent lamb. Having undergone Jungian analysis, I've gotten proficient at interpreting my own dreams, Carl Jung; having believed that there're doors into the innermost parts of your psyche. On the rowdy 'Shadows in the Rain', young Marsalis sounds both amused and pleased by being asked to impersonate Clarence Clemons, a task he achieves with honours.The worst of it meanders in a dream, grasping at Sting's own cliches - the melodies of 'Russians' (despite its acknowledged borrowing from Prokifiev), 'Children's Crusade' and the streamlined reggae of 'Love is the Seventh Wave' - and grappling inconclusively with Big Themes. I woke up laughing. Moon Over Bourbon Street a été écrit par Sting (aussi connu comme Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner CBE). Review from Newsweek magazine by Jim Miller'The Dream of the Blue Turtles' is the latest excursion in Sting's ongoing crusade to break down the barriers between different types of music. But nothing the Police have done - as entertaining as the group is - could have prepared anyone for this distinctive album. Keyboard player Kenny Kirkland contributes fleetsizer choruses made to sound like a slippery celeste, but the real standou is saxophonist Branford Marsalis. Little Wing. I hired the musicians and my function was to sing and to write the songs. Reply; 2 votes. People took solos, took the spotlight. I think pop music was at it's best in the '60s, when there were no barriers, no demarcation lines of jazz, classical, whatever. Liner Notes'The Dream Of The Blue Turtles' was Sting's first solo album and represented a very real risk. 8:45. I ignored this as much as I could, believing that the momentum of the band had been such that people would at least be curious about what I was up to. Sting avoids pretension with bitingly energetic and wide-ranging music. For all its careful craftsmanship, even the already celebrated 'We Work the Black Seam', his impassioned defence of the miners' strike, lacks the mysterious dimension that turns propaganda into art. Johnny Rivers - Positively 4th Street No 10. Mother Lyrics Muoio Per Te Lyrics 3:52 . Sister Moon Sister Moon Karaoke - Sting . It's only a jam session between the lines, where Marsalis answers Sting's voice with slyly ubiquitous fanfares and curlicues and epigrams.Sting still writes short, modal melody lines, and sometimes he plays around with the Police's quiet marches (??¬? A deliberate air of mystery surrounds compositions such as the steel-drum flavored 'Love Is The Seventh Wave' and the cool 'Consider Me Gone': At every turn the churning instrumental interaction help shadow the true intention of his lyric. Estate. Directed by Michael Robison. Marsalis' job is to add a soulful edge where Sting has neglected it, and his soprano sax is a vital element on 'Love Is The Seventh Wave' and 'Children's Crusade'. 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