Bring on the Night

Around the same time as Brazil, Bring on the Night was popular amongst my college friends. The Police had recently broken up at the height of their popularity and Sting was eager to establish himself as a serious artiste.

I guess it worked because he never went back to The Police. However, the jazz band that he is supposedly pulling together in this documentary didn't survive either. It's sort of predicted by Branford Marsalis in a sort of wry speech he gives at one point. The "band" only survived to make the one album The Dream of the Blue Turtles.

I recently learned that Kenny Kirkland died of a possible drug overdose back in 1998. He was an excellent pianist featured in this film.

Also, the realized that the baby born to Sting and Trudie Styler in this film is now -- yikes -- an adult. So much for my college days...