New Beck, Sting, Mozart, Sinatra releases – cures for the autumn-time blues

As well as some great upcoming live music, the autumnal blues are being cured by some outstanding new record releases for grown-ups, including:

* The Information by Beck,

* Songs From The Labyrinth by Sting,

* Tutto Mozart by Bryn Terfel,

* the Columbia Legacy series, the Great American Songbook, with discs by Sinatra and Louis Armstrong, among others

* John McLaughlin’s Industrial Zen, and

* Ali Farka Toure’s Savane.

Autumn doesn’t seem so forbidding, after all.



Gerry Smith