Wonderful vocal jazz, economical and yet instrumented insistently.

Their first album was me too blue-heavy with partly much too short titles. Now I was initially skeptical when her latest works. But already at the second hearing Melody Gardot kindled with their songs on "My One and Only Thrill" goose bumps and invites you to dream.
Some of the songs are orchestrated very sparingly, but very qualitative: great strings that recall from time to time to musicals or even classical works, piano, saxophone, trumpet, xylophone and harp, a delight to listen to this all sounds very profound and is for me never schmaltzy acting. The voice just great, the verses and choruses a treat.

So there are wonderful, quiet vocal jazz songs like "Baby I'm A Fool", "Lover Undercover", "Our Love Is Easy", "The Rain", "My one and only thrill" or "Deep Within The Corners of my mind "that go very deep through the extensive strings easily and are the highlights for me.
In addition still some momentum fuller, happier songs like "If the Stars Were Mine" (especially in the strings version a delight), "Les Etoiles" and the cover of "Over the Rainbow", which also finds its place here and in the bossa nova style enrich the otherwise rather dull cover that there already is.
A Blue Song joins even in the list "Your heart is as black as night", not my favorite, but ok.
The song "Who will comfort me" fits in no schema, Pop meets jazz, blues, gospel and Independent, a good song. Here one notices also the bandwidth of the artist.

Overall, this album is a true enrichment for the current Vocal Jazz rail which to my mind in recent times often boring albums spawned such as the new album by Diana Krall, the always in the sales charts is indeed far above, but definitely for me Song technically far behind Melody Gardot and "My One and Only Thrill" is.
For all vocal jazz-friends: a strong buy recommendation! Excellent!