Madeleine Peyroux

★★★★ Careless Love (Deluxe Edition) CRAFT. CD/LP

Adding an on-stage interpretation brings a fresh slant on a global success.

In the essay accompanying this reissue of her 2004 breakthrough second album Careless

Love, Madeleine Peyroux recalls producer Larry Klein: “He wanted to make a record that would sound like the dream of an album.” After her follow-up to 1996’s Dreamland arrived, dreaming went on hold when

Careless Love become a worldwide best seller, helped on its way by astute marketing (it was displayed on the counter of Starbucks branches; tracks were heard on the TV shows Nip/Tuck and Boston Legal, and an ad for trousers). Heard now, the deft fusion of jazz, R&B and light touches of her adopted country France’s chanson still sounds assured. A bonus previously unreleased July 2005 live show from Spain’s Vitoria-Gasteiz Jazz Festival, featuring different musicians, energises Careless

Love’s material by a more sinuous and spontaneous delivery.