With Half The Perfect World, singer Madeleine Peyroux continues the path she took on , of which she sold more than a million copies worldwide. Once again she performs a repertoire that is a cross between acoustic blues and country ballads, with her fragile, velvety voice that is rightly compared to that of . Here too she draws from songs by singer / songwriters with whom she grew up. Such as Blue
… Alert and the title track by , (Looking For) The Heart Of Saturday Night by , River by that she performs in duet with , Everbody's Talking by , immortalized in the 1970s by for the film , La Javanaise , and Charlie Chaplin's Smile, which is nowadays unprecedented in the jazz vocal world. The role of keyboardist should not be left unmentioned. His perfectly dosed playing is the ideal complement to Peyroux's silky smooth vocals. (AD)more