Album: Melody Gardot, My One and Only Thrill (Universal)

Call it twazz, the admixture of twee female vocals with lite-jazz stylings, as heard by Norah Jones and Madeleine Peyroux. Like Miss P, Gardot is a class act produced by Larry Klein.

Unlike her, she writes most of her own material and sounds like a cartoon kitten doing Julie London. This second album is an expensive job with two great songs, Gardot's "Baby I'm a Fool" and Harold Arlen's "Over the Rainbow". But Vince Mendoza's strings sound like they were mixed in at random and the overall effect is too sweet for lasting nourishment.

Pick of the Album: 'Over the Rainbow': you've liked it before and you'll like it again

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