Andy Summers on DeBaser: reviews, riffs, and Fripp-side trips

Andy Summers

Musician

Forfans of the police, progressive guitar heads, jazz/jazz-fusion listeners, and curious fripp/crimson travelers.
3 Reviews 3 Definitions 2 Charts

The Profile

Andy Summers is an English guitarist best known for The Police. Active since the 1960s, he has pursued a wide solo career spanning jazz fusion, ambient and instrumental work, and collaborated notably with Robert Fripp.

Guitarist of The Police; collaborated with Robert Fripp on I Advance Masked and Bewitched; released jazz-leaning solo albums including Green Chimneys; active from the 1960s; English nationality.

Three reviews chart Andy Summers beyond The Police: a warmly received Fripp collaboration (I Advance Masked), a smart Monk tribute with choice players (Green Chimneys), and a mixed take on his pop-leaning solo turn (XYZ). Praise centers on his inventive, rhythmic guitar voice; criticism targets vocals and drum machines. Overall sentiment: respectful and largely positive.

Notable Quotes

❝ The work is spread over thirteen short tracks, where the guitars of the two protagonists chase each other, clash, complete each other, and rise in a mutual game.

❝ Noteworthy in this album, which "sounds" fantastic in the stereo, providing great pleasures, is the always perfect rhythm of Peter Erskine, along with a luxurious cameo, namely the second of the three, that little overachiever Sting...