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The Dream of the Blue Turtles by Sting (CD, Jun-2001, Universal Records New Zealand) 
The Dream of the Blue Turtles by Sting (CD, Jun-2001, Universal Records New Zealand)

 
The Dream of the Blue Turtles by Sting (CD, Jun-2001, Universal Records New Zealand)

Artist: Sting
Release Date: Jun 2001
Format: CD
Record Label: Universal Records (New Zealand)
Genre: Gold Disc, Rock & Pop
UPC: 766487695626
Product ID: EPID46420755
Description: Personnel: Sting (vocals, guitar, bass); Branford Marsalis (saxophone, percussion); Frank Opolko (trombone); Kenny Kirkland (keyboards); Danny Quatrochi (Synclavier synthesizer, background vocals); Darryl Jones (bass); Omar Hakim (drums)...
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Track Listing
1. If You Love Somebody Set Them Free
2. Love Is the Seventh Wave
3. Russians
4. Childrens Crusade
5. Shadows in the Rain
6. We Work the Black Seam
7. Consider Me Gone
8. Dream of the Blue Turtles, The
9. Moon Over Bourbon Street
10. Fortress Around Your Heart
11. If You Love Somebody Set Them Free - (CD-Rom Video)

Details
Contributing Artists:Branford Marsalis, Kenny Kirkland, Omar Hakim
Distributor:Phantom Import Distributi
Recording Type:Studio
Recording Mode:Stereo
SPAR Code:n/a

Album Notes
Personnel: Sting (vocals, guitar, bass); Branford Marsalis (saxophone, percussion); Frank Opolko (trombone); Kenny Kirkland (keyboards); Danny Quatrochi (Synclavier synthesizer, background vocals); Darryl Jones (bass); Omar Hakim (drums); Eddy Grant (congas); Dolette McDonald, Janice Pendarvis, Pete Smith, Elliot Jones, Jane Alexander, Vic Garbarini, The Nannies Chorus, Rosemary Purt, Stephanie Crewsdon, Joe, Kate, Michael Sumner (background vocals).
Remastered release from New Zealand features enhanced video track, "If You Love Somebody."
Sting had a lot to prove on his first post-Police effort, and he proved himself up to the task of establishing a distinctive identity as a solo artist. Instead of replicating his reggae-tinged Police style, he ventured into new realms, hiring top drawer American jazz musicians like Branford Marsalis, Kenny Kirkland and drum monster Omar Hakim to accompany him on the kind of harmonically sophisticated (though decidedly non-jazz) tunes he'd begun working on towards the end of the Police's lifetime (see SYNCHRONICITY). There's still a touch of reggae on the open-hearted "Love Is the Seventh Wave," and even a funked-up version of the formerly abstract Police tune "Shadows In The Rain," but most of the tunes here (except the pop smash "If You Love Somebody Set Them Free" are the kind of literate, adult-friendly sophisto-pop that would become a template for his subsequent solo recordings. BLUE TURTLES still stands as one of his most memorable albums.

Editorial Reviews
Ranked #1 in CMJ's Top 20 Most-Played Albums of 1985
CMJ (01/05/2004)

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