Melody Gardot - My One And Only Thrill

Track Listing
Baby I'm A Fool
If The Stars Were Mine 
Who Will Comfort Me
Your Heart Is As Black As The Night
Lover Undercover
Our Love is Easy
Les Etoiles
The Rain
My One And Only Thrill
Deep Within The Corners Of My Mind
Somewhere Over The Rainbow
If The Stars Were Mine (with orchestra)

My One And Only Thrill follows on from Gardot's debut album, Worrisome Heart--a record that established the singer-songwriter as a serious (and seriously global) talent. Fans will be pleased to hear that her seductive mélange of subdued jazz, introspective blues and insouciant pop is continued on this second outing. Mercurial double bass, whispered hi hats and melodic piano and sax flow mellifluously through tracks such as the tranquil “On The Rain”, the torch song “Baby I'm A Fool” and the swinging “Who Will Comfort Me?” Of special note is Gardot’s weightless, samba-fied version of Harold Arlen's “Somewhere Over The Rainbow” and the Blue Note-esque “Les Etoiles”. If you love Sinatra, Holiday, Jobim and Fitzgerald, you’ll find it hard not to dig Gardot. --Danny McKenna 

CD Description 
My One And Only Thrill is an intensely creative milestone, transcending genre distinctions of jazz and blues to offer a haunting personal musical statement that will appeal to all music-lovers. As with her acclaimed live shows, she captures and holds her audience in the palm of her hand. These eleven songs, covering a wide range of emotions are all her own except for an irresistible, Brazilian take on Somewhere Over The Rainbow. It would take a heart of stone to remain unmoved by the poignant title track "My One And Only Thrill".

Every Track a Thrill 
Do listen to a couple of tracks at least. Melody has a wonderful smooth, mellow voice, if you like Jazz, Female Vocals and, or, Easy listening you will be impressed by this and indeed her other albums.

The Star in the making 
The second album is sheer heaven, and will put her up there with the greats, if she carrys on with this level of skill. 

This album, as with the first one, will never be taken off my mp3, and I will be looking forward to the next offering from her. 

She reminds me of Janis Ian on her album Between the lines, in it;s great lyrics and tunes that will stick in the mind, and you find yourself humming all the time. 

If you only buy one album this year, make it this one

A PERFECT JAZZ ALBUM AT LAST...! 
Melody Gardot is a real talent who can write, play and sing songs very well. She has done an excellent album for jazz lovers by mixing old and new sounds. My favorite ones are "Your Heart is as Black as Night" and for sure "My One and Only Thrill". 

Do not hesitate to get it if you are really fond of listening to cool jazz female singers