Articles by Daniel Garrett

Opinion

Sade, a Smooth Operator, sings of No Ordinary Love, and Is That A Crime?

by Daniel Garrett
October 25, 2003

An Appreciation of the Music of Sade Adu, Andrew Hale, Stuart Matthewman, and Paul S. Denman, who write and perform songs about friendship, love, and sympathy in both cosmopolitan and common lives in a world driven by money and roiled by politics “Wisdom is the flame, wisdom is the brave warrior who will carry us into the sun. I pray that it's swift though tears will come that fall like rain," sings Sade Adu in the “Slave Song" ...

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Album Review

Anita Baker: The Best of Anita Baker

Read "The Best of Anita Baker" reviewed by Daniel Garrett

by Daniel Garrett
July 8, 2002

On The Best of Anita Baker, the singer goes from singing that “love like ours is heaven sent, each day a day to remember” in the song “Angel” to singing “you should have heard the way he shouted and the way that I screamed” in “I Apologize,” a movement from a romanticism that is positively adolescent to a mature realism. Baker, a singer whose tones suggest the melding of jazz, gospel, and the calmer speech-song of popular music singing, is ...