Album Review - Madeleine Peyroux - Careless Love/Madeleine Peyroux & William Galison - Got You on My Mind
John Metzger
Album Review - Madeleine Peyroux & William Galison - Got You on My Mind
By T.J. Simon
Madeleine Peyroux sounds exactly like Billie Holiday, and she performs
popular jazz music for people who really aren't into jazz music.
Dividing her time between New York and Paris, she keeps her compositions
steeped in the two cultures' visions of vocal jazz and lush pop with
equal lyrical adeptness in both French and English. Recently, Peyroux
delivered two winning albums competing for shelf space -- a solo outing
titled Careless Love and a joint effort with jazz harmonica maestro
William Galison titled Got You on My Mind. On Careless Love, Peyroux
fights for a piece of the jazz-pop pie currently dominated by Norah
Jones. As for Got You on My Mind, Peyroux utilizes her gorgeous voice to
reinterpret several classics that were produced and arranged by William
Galison, who has provided his harmonica to a wide-ranging array of past
projects, including the theme to Sesame Street.
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