A great continuation

I too would like to join previous speakers: A total of wonderful record for fans who want to "Catching Tales" and "The Pursuit". One can definitely describe Momentum as progression of the path, the Jamie Cullum has gone with two plates. The songs cover a lot of different musical styles and include many electronic sounds. Overall, a very smooth produced pop album with jazz elements. The "classic" jazz musician, who is known from "Twentysomething" or "Pointless Nostalgic", you will get to hear here only occasionally, such as in the solo of "Pure Imagination".

Remains faithful to Jamie Cullum and the recording quality. A captivating sound recording quality. The plate is really fantastic mixed and mastered. A sonic reference track in my opinion is "Love for §ale", but in the version of the Abbey Road Studios (Disk2). The bass is incredibly finely tuned and sound very accurate (you know like of "music is through - [Pursuit]).

For this reason alone I would recommend buying the deluxe edition each only. Only the second CD (esp. The Abbey Road recordings) is (/ are) worth the full price CD. The arrangements are slightly modified from the "normal" Momentum CD. When track "Love for $ ale" missing eg. The rap part, also Jamie plays with muted piano strings this hammer-bass riff with. Total madness. The version of "Pure Imagination" I like it even better than on the actual main CD. Ultimately, this is likely but its taste.

The DVD contains notes on the individual songs. I think this is a really nice idea. It is not (as in 2 official videos) talked about the chords that make up the songs, but is explained where the ideas come from, was what music Jamie Cullum inspired, etc., etc.. There really are some really nice backstories to hear.

Overall, a great CD package, even though I do not every single track has completely convinced.