Musical crossover genius

For some time I had Jamie Callum on my wish list. But since I for several years DETERMINED me only albums that are worth listening from the first to the last song, need decisions but now a little longer.

And it has more than paid off.
Jamie Callum is a full-blooded musician, in which you can hear the love of music with any sound out and the enthusiasm and the sense of rousing, elaborate arrangements were almost in the cradle. Be it quiet, mid-tempo or tempo numbers.

His songs are as fresh, modern and despite sophisticated arrangements but so lightly, unkapriziös and catchy.
To have incredible in these early years of such a keen sense of this crossover mix.

What he does as I z. B. from such "old ham" on Singing In The Rain I Could Have Danced All or Night, is modern, new and fresh, it's just plain fun to listen to.

I am Singing In The Rain, who would get the idea to cover this song. The only work in my personal opinion related to the film and the dance scenes.
The idea to take the pace of the song and give the atmosphere a slightly melancholic touch.
Like a walk during a warm summer rain.

I Could Have Danced All Night he gives an even newer and more unusual sound dress.
With Latin-African, funky sounding drums, dramatically dangerous sounding string passages and the next moment convey strings, piano again the familiar romantic, slightly kitschy atmosphere of the original.

All the other songs have incredibly varied and yet harmonious listening.
No song would not be worth listening to.
Overall, an album that you can listen to over and over again without it bores or annoys.

For the way to hear, as well as concentrated conscious listening alike.

For me, Jamie Callum is the most musical talent in recent years, because he so masterfully mixes the different styles, without being complicated and hard.
It may be that one or the other has a problem with his voice, which often sounds a bit nasal in my ears. A little as if he had ever struggled with a non-decaying cold.
But that's just taste thing.

His great merit to give the Jazz a facelift. Jazz, which was actually said already dead and he makes accessible to a younger audience with his interpretations.

If I for example, very much like to stay with more current and popular representatives of the genre, the early albums of Michael Buble hear when I guess, or Robby Williams first album Swing and Gregory Porter.
Jamie Cullum is that to present all completely new and innovative approaches.

I was surprised how excited even my sixteen and eighteen-year-old children by him are.

And who accuses him squinting at Main Stream as it (also according to me an ingenious album) has been accused by some to him already with The Pursuit, which was to turn on the radio yet again.

From mainstream he is still miles away at this album and also at The persuit.

The mainstream with its loudness war or madness?, The computer assisted sounds, the eternally same end, hardly to be distinguished arrangements within the different styles.

Jamie Cullum does, even if he switched to the main stream real music and indeed at the highest level.