As this reissue's sleeve notes recall, Double Vision was roasted by writers on its release. And 30 years later there's no reason to revise those opinions. Double Vision was trashed then for being so oleaginous it didn't so much play as seep from your stereophonic music apparatus. Yet it became a big seller, a radio fave and the epitome of ‘smooth jazz. Populism works. So enduring is its success that the original line-up recently reunited for a States-side tour, and this 24-karat gold disc doubtless shone amid the merch. With such a starry castlist Double Vision is not without merit, Sanborn's wistfulness and Miller's colours underwriting the melancholy of ‘Moon Tune’, while Miller's ‘Maputo’ dances along. Jarreau's vox likewise brings a saccharine class (Nat King Cole dipped in cola) to ‘Since I Fell for You’. As instrumental pop, so evocative of its time, Double Vision is a curious artefact, but this is a gold (disc) that doesn't glisten.