The arrangements are usually very reduced and completely focused on her warm, powerful and gripping voice in some tracks here are the presents himself as the own gospel choir and reached as God bless the child dizzying heights.
Not always succeeds thereby avert a compelling, standalone version of the song on CD, so as I can dream, cant I, that in his playful Musette character a pleasant change for quite gloomy tone of the rest of the shots forms and to their 88s version of Cole Porter songs Everytime We Say Goodbye recalls. Or in the powerful I put a spell on you, where can score their soul voice brilliantly. With Mood Indigo her voice may then finally time swing a little bit.
Often, however, their interpretations remain very close and good on the original. As with Summertime and You belong to me. Always tasteful, elegant and without unnecessary strings bombast, like him, for example, George Michael ascends like when he takes on old jazz songs, but unfortunately not really innovative. The genre Jazz has except her voice unfortunately does not add much. After all, is but sublime as usual and large. The album never slips off the embarrassing what fruit when shooting so strongly occupied songs like Strange or Georgia easily could have happened.
Nostalgia is not her first foray into the genre of jazz. After her 88s contribution to Red, Hot & Blue Sampler has had also worked with jazz greats such as Herbie Hancock and Till Bronner. With the latter, you have succeeded is a very interesting excursion to the Brazilian jazz. As a die-hard fan Annie Lennox I've been waiting for a long time very excited about her first jazz album. But I personally would have liked more joy of experimenting and a little less braves result. But hear on a windy autumn evening Nostalgia, wrap up in Annie's voice and look out the window at a red wine glass, can certainly take a trip on a nostalgic in the good old days.
