THE BRIDGE (Universal) 6.5/10 Sting’s boyish voice was, like the catchy tunes, reggae beats, restrained guitar and effusive drumming, a hallmark of The Police, and that youthfulness has never quite deserted him. Now 70 – an age when most voices deepen, darken, grow huskier, become wobblier or all four –…
Category: Album Reviews
THANK YOU (Universal) 6/10 Few figures tower over popular music like Diana Ross, who can go for 15 years without releasing an album – longer without one containing original material – and yet still seem enshrined in our collective consciousness. Now she finally returns to recording with Thank You, the…
ECHOS (Sunnyside) 9/10 The mystery continues. It’s a thread of music in which each note is laden with subtext, so every listening reveals something new: a quality inherent in the work of the likes of Miles Davis, Charlie Haden and Paul Motian. Now US pianist Dahveed Behroozi espouses comparable mysteries…