Sting’s Return to the Power Trio Format Delivers Triply Good Results in a Mini-Residency at L.A.’s Wiltern: Concert Review

variety.com:

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Welcome back, Sting +2 … or, in the parlance of the current tour, “Sting 3.0.” Power trios are a thing, and roughly four decades after he was last officially a regular, ongoing member of one, Sting has come back around to seeing the glory of the maxim that triads are rad. (Sorry, we actually just coined that.) Sting is joined on this year-long-plus outing (which began in September and has dates booked through October 2025) by his guitarist of the last 35 years, Dominic Miller, and a not-nearly-so-longstanding drummer, Chris Maas.

And that’s it. And with no insult intended to the extra battalions of brilliant players who have joined him on other tours over the years to say, not only they are not missed at the moment, but it’s greatly to the audience’s benefit that Sting has saved on labor costs this time around.

This is as close as we could likely come to getting a Police reunion tour in 2024-25. It’s not as optimal in some certain regards, obviously, as Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers are far from completely replaceable on the early band material that takes up a decent portion of the setlist.

But it’s more optimal in others, in that (unlike the actual Police reunion tour of 2008), it includes a wealth of selections from the nearly 40 years’ worth of solo records he’s put out since then — performed as if he’d recorded them with the Police.