They're too proud to be that, and I'm too clever to want that. It was my intention all along to have a band, not a super-session bunch of hirelings. They're not sidemen, they're too good for that. But there's still room for the dialectic to and fro. So there are no arguments about roles, which makes the process a lot easier. I hired them to play, and I'm the songwriter and singer. It's not Oh, Sting's got to have his little hobby, humour him and let him make his jazz record." "There's as much excitement about the record in the record company as there would be for a Police record, which is quite thrilling. I woke up to the sound of Branford in the room upstairs, riffing wildly on his tenor sax, followed by his unmistakeable laughter." They didn't harm me but with an almost casual violence commenced to destroy my genteel English garden, digging up the lawn with their claws, chomping at the rosebushes, bulldozing the lilac tree. They were not only the size of a man, they were also blue and had an air of being immensely cool, like hepcats, insouciant and fearless. Suddenly the bricks from the wall exploded into the garden and I turned to see the head of an enormous turtle emerging from the darkness, followed by four or five others. I dreamed I was sitting in the walled garden behind my house in Hampstead, under a lilac tree on a well manicured lawn, surrounded by beautiful rosebushes. "The title of the album came from a dream that woke me up on my first night in Barbados.
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Nevertheless, we all set out for Eddie Grant's studio in Barbados with a bag full of new songs and a mission to start a new adventure." This caused some friction with Branford's brother Wynton, who, apart from losing two of his band, thought they were selling out by playing with a pop musician like myself. Branford Marsalis would play saxophone, with Kenny Kirkland on piano. "With the help of my friend, the writer and critic Vic Garbarini, I recruited a band of young jazz musicians, including alumni of Miles Davis's band, Art Blakey's band, and Weather Report. Although I believed that the Police had thrived on the limitations of being a small band, I was more than ready after seven years to fly the coop." I have to say the sense of freedom in not having to tailor songs to accommodate a three-piece, even one as versatile as the Police, was like opening a window in a closed room. I ignored this as much as I could, believing that the momentum of the band had been such that people would at least be curious about what I was up to. Of course it was a risk, but I can only say that I listened to my instincts, no matter how irrational they seemed to everyone else, and then followed them, fully aware that falling flat on my face was a very real possibility. In the eyes of some it was the highest folly to leave what was arguably the biggest band in the world at that time. This decision, I admit, was not particularly logical. "Following the massive success of 'Synchronicity', I decided to set out on my own.
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