Eagle-Eye Cherry

So much for genetics. As the son of the late avant-jazz icon Don Cherry and the brother of
funk-hopping Neneh Cherry, Eagle-Eye Cherry carries a heavy legacy. Fans of the
adventurous Cherry clan, then, will be disappointed by the lite-rocking Desireless,
Eagle-Eye's debut album. Eschewing his sister's grooves in favor of mellow acoustic guitars,
the youngest Cherry apparently hasn't met a Ben Harper song he didn't like – or... More >

Watch out for this mild-mannered simp: underneath his lite croon, refabricated truisms, and avant-garde pedigree, he's got the tunes. The title track, an instrumental-with-chant composed by his trumpeter dad, points up how flimsy they are. (Grade: B-)