[93] On its release, the song went straight to number 1 over French iTunes music download charts, subsequently hitting number 1 on the main French singles chart and giving Sting his first number 1 in France. [112], On 14 April 2020, Sting recorded a duet cover of "Message in a Bottle" with the girl group All Saints. His next project was a live album at his villa in Figline Valdarno, released as a CD and DVD as well as being broadcast on the internet. The CD and DVD were to be entitled On Such a Night and intended to feature re-workings of Sting favourites such as "Roxanne" and "If You Love Somebody Set Them Free." The album's title is from William Shakespeare's Sonnet 130. [56] In June he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. "Moonlight", a rare jazz performance by Sting for the 1995 remake of Sabrina, written by Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman and John Williams, was nominated for a 1997 Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture or Television. [22][23] In the 1985 documentary Bring on the Night a journalist called him Gordon, to which he replied, "My children call me Sting, my mother calls me Sting, who is this Gordon character? They decided to go ahead and the album and DVD appeared in November as ...All This Time, dedicated "to all those who lost their lives on that day". [125] In February 2005, Sting performed the Leeuwin Estate Concert Series in Western Australia: the concert raised $4 million for the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami relief. Sting - The Studio Collection. 57th & 9th was released on 11 November 2016. It featured Vanessa Redgrave, Ian McKellen and Sting as the soldier.[47]. "Sting announces new rock album 57th & 9th – "It's rockier than anything I've done in a while. As a child, he was inspired by the Queen Mother waving at him from a Rolls-Royce to divert from the shipyard prospect towards a more glamorous life. Sting) Chris Botti, Sting. On 2 November 2012, Sting appeared on Hurricane Sandy: Coming Together and sang a version of "Message in a Bottle" to raise funds for those affected by a storm on the east coast of the US that week. Escucha y descarga los episodios de BLUES,JAZZ,CLASICA (REPRISE) gratis. [155] For many years he owned a house in Highgate, 2 The Grove which had been the former home of the violinist Yehudi Menuhin. At the 1994 Brit Awards in London, he was Best British Male. Entrá y conocé nuestras increíbles ofertas y promociones. [36][49] The album was recorded at his Elizabethan country home, Lake House in Wiltshire. [59], His autobiography Broken Music was published in October. In 2000, the soundtrack for The Emperor's New Groove was released with complete songs from the previous version of the film. [152], In 1995, Sting gave evidence in court against his former accountant (Keith Moore), who had misappropriated £6m (US$7.6m) of his money. Leave a Reply Annulla risposta. "Doo Wa Ditty" is the third track on the album, while "A Touch of Jazz" is the closing track on the album. Stream ad-free or purchase CD's and MP3s now on Amazon.co.uk. Quotations related to Sting (musician) at Wikiquote, "Gordon Sumner" redirects here. [60] Sting went on the Broken Music tour, touring smaller venues, with a four-piece band, starting in Los Angeles on 28 March 2005 and ending on 14 May 2005. On 26 June 2015 in Bergen, Norway (at the Bergen Calling Festival), Sting embarked on a 21-date Summer 2015 solo tour of Europe in Trondheim, Norway (at the Olavsfestdagene), visiting Denmark, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Italy and Sweden. [7] In 2006, Paste ranked him 62nd of the 100 best living songwriters. [32] They were also included in Rolling Stone's and VH1's lists of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time". [31] In addition, "Every Breath You Take" and "Roxanne" were among the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. [166], In a 2011 interview in Time, Sting said that he was agnostic and that the certainties of religious faith were dangerous. [76] On 26 April he performed "Every Breath You Take", "Roxanne" and "Desert Rose" at the Time 100 Gala in New York City. [126][127][128], In 2007, Sting joined Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland for the closing set at the Live Earth concert at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. [111] Sting was among hundreds of artists whose material was reportedly destroyed in the 2008 Universal fire. [37] Within a year, the album reached Triple Platinum. He did not attend either parent's funeral, in order not to bring media attention to them. With the Police, Sting became one of the world's best-selling music artists. Shop for Vinyl, CDs and more from A Touch Of Jazz at the Discogs Marketplace. The song "I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying" from this album also became a US country music hit in 1997 in a version with Toby Keith. Either way, Sting remained one of pop's biggest superstars for the first ten years of his solo career, before his record sales began to slip. In 1980, Sting became a tax exile[142][143][144] in Galway in Ireland. Sting's interpretation of this English Renaissance composer and his cooperation with Edin Karamazov brought recognition in classical music. The album went Platinum. In 2003, the band were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. [4], As a solo musician and a member of the Police, Sting has received 17 Grammy Awards: he won Song of the Year for "Every Breath You Take", three Brit Awards, including Best British Male Artist in 1994 and Outstanding Contribution in 2002, a Golden Globe, an Emmy and four nominations for the Academy Award for Best Original Song. [167], Sting has also ventured into acting. Huff-Duff – noun The common pronounciation of the acronym HF/DF meaning high frequency direction finder. Film, television and radio roles include:[168], Sting narrated the American premiere of the musical Yanomamo (1983), by Peter Rose and Anne Conlon, outlining problems that existed in the Amazon rainforest. Sting and Styler were awarded the Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience award in Sherborn, Massachusetts, on 30 June 2000. [45] The album won Best British Album at the 1988 Brit Awards and in 1989 received three Grammy nominations including his second consecutive nomination for Album of the Year. [25], In August 2013, Sting donated money to The Friends of Tynemouth Outdoor Pool to regenerate the 1920s lido at the southern end of Longsands Beach in Tynemouth, northeast England, a few miles from where he was born. [18] After leaving school in 1969, he enrolled at the University of Warwick in Coventry, but left after a term. This page is based on the copyrighted Wikipedia article "A_Touch_of_Jazz" (); it is used under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the CC-BY-SA. In November, he released the compilation, Fields of Gold: The Best of Sting, which was certified Double Platinum. He embarked on a Sacred Love tour in 2004 with performances by Annie Lennox. In 2008, he was reported to practise Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's Transcendental Meditation technique. [121] His support continues and includes an annual benefit concert at Carnegie Hall, which has featured Billy Joel, Elton John, James Taylor and others. Sting's fourteenth album, titled My Songs, was released on 24 May 2019. [65], Sting entered the studio in early February 2009 to begin work on a new album, If on a Winter's Night...,[66] released in October 2009. [153] Sting owns several homes worldwide, including Lake House and its sixty-acre estate near Salisbury, Wiltshire; a New York City flat (which was once owned by Billy Joel); the Villa Il Palagio estate in Figline Valdarno, Tuscany;[154] and one home in London. Despite claiming he thought the concert was sponsored by UNICEF, he faced criticism in the press for receiving a payment of between one and two million pounds from Uzbek president Islam Karimov for the performance. I solokarrieren har elementer av og fra jazz ofte vært et sentralt innslag i musikken hans. The album was produced by Sting's manager, Martin Kierszenbaum. In 1987 jazz arranger Gil Evans placed him in a big band setting for a live album of Sting's songs, and on Frank Zappa's 1988 Broadway the Hard Way he performed an arrangement of "Murder By Numbers", set to "Stolen Moments" by Oliver Nelson, and dedicated to evangelist Jimmy Swaggart. [87] The tour continued in early 2015, with ten shows in Australia and New Zealand,[88][89] and 23 concerts in Europe,[90] ending on 18 April 2015. [36], His first solo album, 1985's The Dream of the Blue Turtles, featured jazz musicians including Kenny Kirkland, Darryl Jones, Omar Hakim and Branford Marsalis. The Dream of the Blue Turtles è il primo album da solista del cantante britannico Sting, pubblicato nel giugno del 1985, un anno dopo lo scioglimento non ufficiale del suo gruppo, i Police.Il titolo deriva da uno strano sogno fatto da Sting. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2020 CD release of "A Touch of Jazz" on Discogs. [61], In 2006, Sting was on the Gregg Kofi Brown album, with "Lullaby to an Anxious Child" produced and arranged by Lino Nicolosi and Pino Nicolosi of Nicolosi Productions.[62]. "Exclusive Sting.com Fan Club 57th & 9th Album Release Party Announced – November 9 at Irving Plaza in NYC! Stream ad-free or purchase CD's and MP3s now on Amazon. He launched a solo career in 1985, and has included elements of rock, jazz, reggae, classical, new-age and worldbeat in his music. He is co-founder of the jazz fusion band, Elements ", "Exclusive show at Irving Plaza next Wednesday, November 9! [84][85] The album features guest artists with roots in northeast England, including Brian Johnson, vocalist from AC/DC. Toronto documentary producer Vanessa Dylyn, who was producing a film called The Musical Brain, featuring neuroscientist Daniel Levitin, approached Sting about the film. A journalist asked "how do you perform in bed?" [71][72], In October 2009, Sting played a concert in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, for an arts and cultural festival organised by the Forum of Culture and Arts of Uzbekistan Foundation. His association with Amnesty continued throughout the 1980s and beyond and he took part in Amnesty's human rights concerts. ", "BELFAST DATE ADDED FOR 'PAUL SIMON & STING: ON STAGE TOGETHER' 2015 EUROPEAN TOUR", "Stolen Car – Single par Mylène Farmer & Sting", "Mylène Farmer: Un nouvel album au titre évocateur – Gala", "iTunesCharts.net: 'Stolen Car' by Mylène Farmer & Sting (French Songs iTunes Chart)", "Sting, Peter Gabriel to headline Summerfest on July 10", "Inside Sting's First Rock Album in Decades – How Prince's death, climate change inspired "impulsive" new LP". [80] The Last Ship tells a story about the demise of the British shipbuilding industry in 1980s Newcastle, and debuted in Chicago in June 2014 before transferring to Broadway in the Autumn. The letter cited several pieces of evidence that show that smartphone use by children increases the risk of their having mental health problems, and worsens academic performance. [160][161] The story stems from an interview with Sting and Bob Geldof. È stato registrato nel corso di alcuni spettacoli tenuti dal vivo tra il 1985 e il 1986, durante il tour promozionale del primo album solista di Sting, The Dream of the Blue Turtles.Il titolo è preso da una canzone omonima contenuta nell'album Reggatta de Blanc dei Police del 1979. The song was released on Scherzinger's 2011 debut album Killer Love. Das Quartett spielte in den 1980er Jahren vorwiegend in Deutschland und im benachbarten Ausland in Jazzclubs und auf internationalen Festivals, wie den Leverkusener Jazztagen, Jazz Ost-West in Nürnberg, dem Jazzfestival Krakau. The band and chorus included Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Phil Collins, Bob Geldof and Midge Ure, all of whom (except Beck) later worked on Live Aid. Their final album, Synchronicity, was nominated for five Grammy Awards including Album of the Year in 1983. 1986 erhiel… Sting cooperated with Greek singer George Dalaras in a concert in Athens. ", which raised money for famine victims in Ethiopia. ", Analysis of this song, the H. Eisler-adaption, Barry Lazell (1989). [19] He taught at St Paul's First School in Cramlington for two years. Le sue influenze musicali includono rock, jazz, reggae, musica classica, new-age e worldbeat. Para el primer disco que grabó Sting en solitario en 1985, The dream of the blue turtles, reunió a un grupo de músicos reconocidos como estrellas del jazz.El disco incluía el sencillo de éxito «If you love somebody set them free», además de más éxitos como «Foretress around your heart», «We work the black seam» o «Consider me gone». Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner CBE (born 2 October 1951), known professionally as Sting, is an English musician and actor.He was the principal songwriter, lead singer, and bassist for new wave rock band the Police from 1977 to 1984. [136] Sting also participated as a co-host and musician during the day-long 2015 Norwegian TV campaign, dedicated to the preservation of the rainforest. A triangulation method that uses two or more radio receivers to find the bearings of a … The Official Sting Fan Club. [51] In May 2002 he received the Ivor Novello Award for Lifetime Achievement from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors. In 1989 he starred as Macheath (Mack the Knife) in John Dexter's Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera. [5] In 2002, Sting received the Ivor Novello Award for Lifetime Achievement from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors and was also inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Es spielte in der Besetzung George Buckner (Schlagzeug), Dieter Köhnlein (Piano), Bernhard Mrohs (Kontrabass) und Michael Session (Saxophon). Check out A Touch of Jazz by Soothing Piano Music Universe on Amazon Music. The title is a wordplay on his surname, Sumner, and "The Summoner's Tale", one of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. [96][97] It has contributions by long-time band members Vinnie Colaiuta and Dominic Miller, and Jerry Fuentes and Diego Navaira of the Last Bandoleros. ", "Sting's adviser jailed for pounds 6m theft from star", "Sting's Tantric sex rep a gag started by friend Bob Geldof, says his daughter Coco", "Sting on tantric sex, Justin Bieber and pretentiousness", "24-Hour Sex Sessions? [17], He attended St Cuthbert's Grammar School in Newcastle upon Tyne. Why? His performances were in the album and movie of the show. From 1978 to 1983, they had five UK chart-topping albums, won six Grammy Awards, and won two Brit Awards (for Best British Group and for Outstanding Contribution to Music). The Last Ship (Original Broadway Cast Recording) The Last Ship (standard & vinyl editions) The Last Ship (super deluxe package) The Last Ship (2-disc deluxe version) The Best of 25 Years (2CD Version) The Best of 25 Years (US Version) 25 YEARS. In November 1984 he joined Band Aid, a charity supergroup primarily made up of the biggest British and Irish musicians of the era, and sang on "Do They Know It's Christmas?" "[120] In 1988, he joined musicians including Peter Gabriel and Bruce Springsteen for a six-week Human Rights Now! [131] On 25 April 2010, he performed on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. in the 40th anniversary celebration of Earth Day. The album features 14 studio (and one live) re-recorded versions of his songs released throughout his solo career and his time with the Police. My One and Only Love (feat. In January 1977, Sting moved from Newcastle to London and joined Stewart Copeland and Henry Padovani (soon replaced by Andy Summers) to form the Police. In 2018, he released the album 44/876, a collaboration with Jamaican musician Shaggy, which won the Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album in 2019. Kasparov beat all five simultaneously within fifty minutes. ", "Sting & Paul Simon: On Stage Together – Final New Zealand Show Confirmed! I campi obbligatori sono contrassegnati * Commento. Create your own vacation-worthy postcard! The Secret Policeman's Other Ball began his growing involvement in political and social causes. [79], For several years, Sting worked on a musical, The Last Ship, inspired by Sting's own childhood experiences and the shipbuilding industry in Wallsend. Nome * Email * Sito web. Acquista online CD e Vinili da un'ampia selezione di Post-Bebop moderno, Swing Jazz, Jazz vocale, Free Jazz e Avanguardia, Smooth Jazz, Cool Jazz e molto altro a piccoli prezzi ogni giorno.