shipbuilding industry that makes ships built to be sunk, and Baker’s cameo adds poignancy to the arrangement.
Branford Marsalis on Sting’s “If You Love Somebody” from The Dream of the Blue Turtles (1985).
When Sting left the Police to start a solo career, few people expected that he would hire an all-star band of contemporary jazz artists, including Kenny Kirkland, Darryl Jones, Omar Hakim, and of course Branford Marsalis. Even fewer people expected that he would let the band loose on his tunes and allow them to inform the arrangements. Branford in particular developed a close musical and personal relationship with the singer and soloed on nearly every song on the albums they made together. At the same time in their longwinded diatribes the Marsalis brothers curiously accused Miles Davis of selling out for making an album, Bitches Brew, that never entered the hit parade. (See Michelle Mercer's contribution to the Milan panel and a Jazz Times article by Lee Mergner)
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Bibliograhy Katherine Bergeron and Philip V. Bohlman, Disciplining Music: Musicology and Its Canons, Chicago U. Press, 1992
Stuart Isaco , A Natural History of the Piano: The Instrument, the Music, the Musicians, Vintage, 2011
Michele Mercer, speech during panel Jazz: Feeding the industry, Jazzmi, Milan november 9, 2018 (my own notes unapproved by author)
Lee Mergner, JazzTimes 10: Greatest Jazz Cameos on Pop Songs. (https:// jazztimes.com/features/lists/the-10-greatest-jazz-cameos-on-pop-songs/5/, visited Dec 1, 2020)
Paul Théberge, Any Sound You Can Imagine: Making Music / Consuming Technology, Wesleyan, 1997
Robert W. Witkin, Adorno on Music, Routledge, 1998
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