I feel black people are closer to that unconscious and blue is a good colour for jazz musicians anyway. See more ideas about bourbon street, after dark, jazz blues. Karaoke. Elijah is taking control of the quarter and receives a … The album was recorded at Eddy Grant's studio (Blue Wave) in Barbados. When you knew that it was over Were you suddenly aware That the autumn leaves were turning To the color of her hair Like a circle in a spiral Like a wheel within a wheel Never ending or beginning, On an ever spinning reel As the images unwind Like the circles that you find In the windmills of your mind Pictures hanging in a hallway I woke up laughing. Autumn leaves 1) NY!!! I think these guys are of such personal and musical stature, they wouldn't want to play with me if they didn't think it was worth doing. Chris Botti … My funny Valentine. The song has the same melody as Autumn Leaves Actions. Leon Russel - Masquerade. I wanted to escape that and present a whole plethora of possibilities. I want to be able to change what I do. Now I can never show my face at noon and you'll only see me walking by the light of the moon. I provided the lyrics, the harmony and melody for them to explore. The songs, all written by Sting, are filled with allusions to nuclear war, pollution, despair and other concerns of our era. There's continuity enough between Sting's Police record and this solo blotter, but when he coyly fades out one song with a joking reference to "every move you make, every cake you bake," it's clear that he's found a higher emotional and broader musical ground.Without losing sight of the pop audience, Sting has delivered a brilliant, uncompromised fusion of pop and jazz. Like much of his writing, 'Russians' is too clever by half, but puts its Prokofiev theme to wonderfully atmospheric use. So with the album I wanted to destroy a lot of preconceptions and expectations, and do something unsettlingly different. Miles Davis' current bassist, Darrell Jones, was enlisted; his rhythm section partner is Weather Report drummer Omar Hakim.Sting, whose resume looks almost lightweight by comparison, plays jangling rhythm guitar and Synclavier synthesizer, but his voice is the focus of attention throughout - in growling, soaring lead lines as well as loosely structured background roles. Englishman In New York (2) Mad About You. It was my intention all along to have a band, not a super-session bunch of hirelings. I don't know what rock & roll is, or if it's valid anymore. We didn't really think about "Let's play that chord here." How insensitive. Sting has been driven to tears by world problems since the Police's third-world tour. I wanted to stretch myself, I wanted to be challenged by what they could do, and I also wanted them to stretch too. That was me exercising my freedom.Billboard, 9/99"In this band, the roles were very clear. I'm not intimidated by great players. The opening R&B raveup, 'If You Love Somebody Set Them Free', works as a companion to the Police hit 'Every Breath You Take': Here the obsessed lover has learned what it takes to keep a relationship alive and is happy to dispense the advice. I hired the musicians and my function was to sing and to write the songs. Talking about my band, all the people in my band are from middle-class backgrounds; I'm the only working-class kid in the band. Review from The Washington Post by J D ConsidinePop idols aren't exactly known for taking risks, throwing their audience curve balls or walking away from sure things. based on the French "Les Feuilles Mortes". "International Musician, '85"These musicians, who were all ten years younger than me and middle-class blacks at that, did things so naturally and so easily. Crystal Silence. Moon Over Bourbon Street. Cheek To Cheek. With the Police, he dabbed first in punk rock and then in reggae, slowly developing a distinctive voice and style. "International Musician, '85"I'm not really interested in the spirit of rock & roll. 1 vote. And I'm not precious about my ability as a musician. Nearness of you (The) On the sunny side of the street The modern pop song form was becoming narrow and formulaic again by the time of Blue Turtles, but you felt it could have jazz in it, a Caribbean lilt, and more substance rhythmically and thematically. In my case, I wrote this music. You've got a friend. On record, things are a little more sober - and, to my taste, too earnest.It was easy to see it coming. So it's a frivolous title. They're too proud to be that, and I'm too clever to want that. And I also played double bass on 'Moon Over 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. It's as simple as that. Contemplation - Chord chart resource with over 1,300 Jazz Standards that you can transpose to any key. The ones with music sounding like it came from some tacky musical and lyrics that contained at least a dozen "babys" - not to mention the obligatory "if you leave me, I'll drive Dad's car over Niagara Falls" sentiment.Well, those songs are still out there, somewhere. I was even tearful before. "Musician, 12/87"It was a band in as much as what they were good at playing; and as jazz musicians, they were used to composing or arranging on the spot. C-jam blues vers.2 (first: 2:38) Caravan. Billie’s Bounce. Carefully layering different musical tracks in the studio and using synthesizers to create ostinato figures, chiming tones and orchestral textures, Sting seamlessly blended Slavic melodies, modal scales and African and Caribbean rhythms into a kind of high-tech global folk music.Now, in his first solo recording, Sting has gone in a different direction, recruiting four gifted younger jazz players in an effort to reinvent his musical synthesis. Fly me to the moon / Schiess mich doch zum Mond. Fields of Gold. Kirkland's synthesizers provide orchestrally thick padding, though the pompous Slavic theme of Russians would have been better served by an authentic brass choir.By sandwiching experimental numbers such as 'Children's Crusade' and the title track between more conventional, pop-oriented material, Sting has created a coherent, seamless work bonded by a sense of looseness. 19,311. Blues Etude vers.1 . A lot of people will be surprised at how this album sounds, because it isn't jazz but nor is it a mainstream pop album. Yet I'd suspect that the rest of the band edited his pronouncements for commercial zoning; without them, he does tend to go on about "All the bloodshed all the anger / All the weapons all the greed / All the armies all the missiles / All the symbols of our fear," as he does on 'Love Is The Seventh Wave'. Let us know what you think of the Last.fm website. Show More Show Less. Blue Moon. Come Fly With Me. I didn't want to be seen as a patrician white pop star with his minstrel band. 889. "Steve incorporated 'Autumn Leaves' into the … The Playing Out Duo sing & play a big mix of easy listening or background music including popular trad & swing jazz and ballads from the 50's, 60's & various other things, or If proffered just play a specialised jazz set singing and playing popular tunes. This is music fully liberated from the three-man reggae-pop cage of the Police. Blue Monk. New York state of mind. Preview. "Record, '85"I think it's my best work, the most refined piece of work I've done. Moon over Bourbon Street. My One And Only Love Lyrics 3:36 . I¬íd left the Police, I felt like a duck out of water. While there's a moon over Bourbon Street Number the lines in the order you hear them I was trapped in this life like an innocent lamb. 'Dream of the Blue Turtles' is clearly Sting's new thing.It catches the singer/songwriter moving away from the fleeting images of Syncronicity toward sustained, long-view scenarios reminiscent of musical theater. I have the advantage, Andy and Stewart are forced to go into more esoteric areas, which obviously doesn't have as much commercial cachet as a guy singing songs. With Joseph Morgan, Daniel Gillies, Phoebe Tonkin, Charles Michael Davis. Blue Skies. The Police Excommunicated. You can hear how much fun he's having, and how much goosing he gets from the band, in the remake of the Police's Shadows in the Rain. I guess what I'm looking for are jazz musicians who'd be willing to play pop - and maybe stretch the boundaries of both." From: Derek.Barlas@software.mitel.com (Derek Barlas) "Moon Over Bourbon Street" Sting |: F#m7-5 B7 Em 1. In 'Consider Me Gone', he comments, "The search for perfection is all very well/But to look for heaven is to live here in hell." "Spin, 7/85On how he chose the musicians for the album..."They're probably the best young jazz musicians in the country, and I'm very privileged and honoured that they agreed to come work with me. Moon over Bourbon street. Drummer Omar Hakim is a powerhouse player, but lacks the polyrhythmic fluidity Stewart Copeland uses to lighten The Police sound. Let it snow. We got a jazz Grammy nomination for the album. Certainly, he has employed a variety of musicians with solid backgrounds in the vein of Weather Report, but it is still basically Sting's style of pop music. Prior to starting his solo career, he was the principal songwriter, lead singer and bassist for the rock band, Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner CBE (born 2 October 1951 in Wallsend, Newcastle upon Tyne, England), known by his stage name Sting, is an English musician, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumenta…, Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner CBE (born 2 October 1951 in Wallsend, Newcastle upon Tyne, England), known by his stage name Sting, is an English musician, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, activist, actor and philanthropist. Bourbon Street. What they're doing is destroying my safe formula, my safe back yard. "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. That would have been too much. "Musician, 12/87"Dream was more about a band meeting a pop star. Just friends. Peggy Watson - Down on the Haight Street No 11. Lyrics. Sting the musician has more to say than Sting the deep thinker - especially when he's paced, and pushed, by extraordinary young musicians. Misty 1) There will never be another you . This caused some friction with Branford's brother Wynton, who, apart from losing two of his band, thought they were selling out by playing with a pop musician like myself. Blues Etude vers.3. They're not sidemen, they're too good for that. They started doing back- flips and other acrobatics, in the process utterly destroying my garden. "The Charlotte Observer, 10/85"There was never any intention of it being a jazz record. I'm not intimidated by great players. There's a moon over Bourbon Street tonight I see faces as they pass beneath the pale lamplight I've no choice but to follow that call The bright lights, the people, and the moon and all I pray everyday to be strong For I know what I do must be wrong Oh you'll never see my shade or hear the sound of my feet While there's a moon over Bourbon Street Review from Billboard magazine by author unknownPerhaps the most anticipated release of the summer, and the wait proves well worth it: Police vocalist/bassist's solo collection features 10 tunes, and not a throwaway in the batch. Artist: Sting Song: Moon Over Bourbon Street Additions: This is a tab of a rare recording as seen in Jools Holland's BBC documentary ''Walking to New Orleans''. Nicki Parrott. Only two compositions ('Set Them Free' and 'Shadows In The Rain') break out of the languid, medium-tempo mold Sting has cast; this similarity is the album's biggest weakness.Throughout 'Dreams', Sting adapts the manner of an expert bandleader, allowing his sidemen to do what they do best: drummer Hakim shoots for a steady, crisp pulse dusted with cymbals - gone are the abrupt polyrhythms Copeland used as punctuation. They didn't harm me but with an almost casual violence commenced to destroy my genteel English garden, digging up the lawn with their claws, chomping at the rosebushes, bulldozing the lilac tree. I was a guitarist first, then a double bassist, then, at about nineteen, an electric-bass player. I wrote the songs, and I was more famous and I sang, so I had an advantage, but there was no way that they were my sidemen. Then there's Omar, who thinks he's a good drummer but really he's nowhere as good as me. Cantillation Fly me to the moon. It's only a paper moon. Caravan. Roxanne. On this record I've recruited some of the best young players in America but I think I'm the best songwriter, so I'm not being immodest, the band has a good pedigree, and I'm part of the pedigree. The album was released in June 1985 and quickly topped the charts on both sides of the Atlantic. But nothing the Police have done - as entertaining as the group is - could have prepared anyone for this distinctive album. Prio…. Kander & Ebb - New York, New York. I dreamed I was sitting in the walled garden behind my house in Hampstead, under a lilac tree on a well manicured lawn, surrounded by beautiful rosebushes. 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). Like, for 'The Children's Crusade', I said, "I want something that's kind of military," and he played something that was totally, utterly appropriate. 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