Title: Best Solo Effort
Review: Fresh off a burning tour with some of the best young jazzers money could buy (see video "Bring on the Night") Sting updates and integrates those elements into his brilliantly wordsmithed songs. What started as a brilliant case study on "Dream of the Blue Turtles" here becomes a Modus Operandi, and a perfect backdrop for his lyrical references to Shakespeare, politics and myth. There are plenty of hits here as others have described, the songs stand the test of time. The real charm of this album is the chamber jazz gentileness integrated seamlessy into a pop sensibility. And this band rocked too...find a live recording of "Little Wing" from this time and you'll see what I'm talking about.
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