Ms Teal could be a Karen Carpenter voice-a-like if nothing else, but with work this strong she’ll never need to be.
No samey light jazz on this crooner’s latest, which echoes fellow Yorkshire person Richard Hawley. A Latino version of It’s Not Unusual splices an album of lift (not lobby) music and elevates the heart like only Eva Cassidy could.
Teal simply nails American songbook biggie, A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square. She is reflective and meandering on If Love Were All, which recalls Chicagoan Kurt Elling. Our musical connections with the 30s and 40s canon are tenderly explained, so that even a cover of Chasing Cars reflects the influence of the period.
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