Eagle-Eye Cherry

The offspring of famous fathers are 10 a penny these days, which is probably why when they are good it's more of a surprise than anything else. Eagle-Eye Cherry (so named by his jazz trumpeter father, Don Cherry, because of his steely stare) is part funk machine, part pop star. He can play at both because he's clearly comfortable being one as much as the other, while his trick of blending the two is enough to send the pop kids present into a state of bliss.

But being cool, cute, and funky isn't everything, as erstwhile fans of Terence Trent Darby will no doubt tell you. The songs have to be there as well. Like a football match, Eagle-Eye's gig is a game of two halves. On the one hand, he can treat us to reasonably pristine pop songs such as Save Tonight - his huge hit single which raised the roof when he played it on Friday night - and slightly truculent soft rock such as Misfortune.

On the other hand, we get extended jams and aimless instrumental forays into a type of musical fusion that still sounds boring after all these years. If he could tie each loose end of his material into a perfect, tight knot then Cherry could be the pick of the bunch. And yet just when you think he is incapable of lucid originality, he comes up trumps with a skeletal blues-based raga that is quite brilliant. One to watch.