Sade - Diamond Life

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Free Music Review: Cafe Sade--pleasant and warm pop-jazz
Hit: 5 Stars

If my ideal one were to burn me a CD of love songs, I'd want her to put "Your Love Is King" on. Matthewman's sax wails wonders after the third verse. It's warming to hear "Touching the very part of me/It's making my soul sing/Tearing the very heart of me/
I'm crying out for more" and the bridge, when she says "This is no blind faith/This is no sad and sorry dream." I hope so.

Paul S. Denman's pounding funky bass opens and maintains a constant rhythm in "Hang On To Your Love." Sade gives good advice maybe I should heed: "Be brave when the journey is rough,
it's not easy when you're in love/Don't be ashamed when the going gets tough/it's not easy/don't give up." In other words, don't see things in the short-term, but long-term. After taking my jazz course, six minutes of worthy instrumentation doesn't seem long enough. I wouldn't mind a ten minute jam here.

The reverse in fortune of a heartbreaker is told in "Frankie's First Affair." Her scolding is soft and reserved, but she shows emotional range at points, and when it does, the sax wails to a crescendo, accompanied by the piano and bass. At the end, she says, "Don't you realise they really, really, really did care."

"When Am I Going To Make A Living" has a bouncy rhythmic sound and seems to be an antidote to the cut-throat world, with fussing and stealing people who don't achieve anything due to "too many lies." She sings, "There's no end to what you can do/If you give yourself a chance to prove." Yet even though nasty people will " waste your body and soul if you allow them to", sometimes it's matter of lacking empowerment. Those people can be too strong.

The prominent bass and "wicka-wicka" guitar opens "Cherry Pie," a heartbreaker song. The title refers to how sweet the guy was. Then comes "Sally," an ode to a Salvation Army worker tirelessly working to help men in trouble, such as a drug addict, and a man from the country who needs company in the harsh and lonely city. The chorus goes "So put your hands together for Sally/She saved all those young men/Put your hands together for Sally/She the one who cared for them." The sad and lonely sax and bass punctuates this nighttime cafe number.

"I Will Be Your Friend" is the second track here for my From Ideal to Me CD. Another favourite which demonstrates the emotional support pledged from the woman to a man, that woman who's "here to wipe away the tears." Something I need right now. And love this lyric: "'So trust in me!'/These are the words I tattoo on you" Other words of emotional succor: "'You've got so much to give,'/I'll tell you just when you need to know/'Get out and live,'/I'll pick you up when your feeling low." And "So here's my hand/trust in me I really am true/You've got to understand, there's nothing I wouldn't do." It has a matching pleasantly upbeat rhythm.

She closes with a cover of Timmy Thomas's timeless "Why Can't We Live Together." "No more war, no more war, no more war.../Just a little peace/No more war, no more war/All we want is some peace in this world."

Small wonder Anglo-Nigerian Sade won a well-deserved Grammy as Best New Artist, beating out Whitney Houston. One misconception is the word Sade. True, it is what Helen Folasade Adu calls herself, but it's actually a group: her on vocals, Stuart Matthewman on sax, Andrew Hale on keyboards, and Paul S. Denman on bass. Because this music is a pop-jazz, with really great musicians, Sade as a group is more apropos.

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