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Jamie Cullum
Pursuit
Genres: Jazz, Pop, Rock

Track Listings (14) - Disc #1
1. Just One Of Those Things
2. I'm All Over It
3. Wheels
4. If I Ruled The World
5. You And Me Are Gone
6. Don't Stop The Music
7. Love Ain't Gonna Let You Down
8. Mixtape
9. I Think, I Love
10. We Run Things
11. Not While I'm Around
12. Music Is Through
13. I Get Along Without You Very Well
14. Everyone's Lonely

CD Details

All Artists: Jamie Cullum
Title: Pursuit
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Verve Forecast
Original Release Date: 1/1/2010
Re-Release Date: 3/2/2010
Genres: Jazz, Pop, Rock
Style:
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 602527240107

Synopsis

Album Description

U.S. pressing. 2009 album from the multi-talented British Jazz man, vocalist, pianist and songwriter. This album contains tracks spanning across the Pop, Hip Hop and Jazz genres, including the lead single 'I'm All Over It', an outstanding take on Rihanna's 'Don't Stop The Music' and the spectacular ballad 'Love Ain't Gonna Let You Down' as well as many more. Cullum mixes Jazz with melodic Pop and Rock into a crossover style that calls to mind such artists as Harry Connick, Jr., and Norah Jones. In that vein, Cullum will just as often cover a swinging Jazz standard as a modern Rock song, and his original compositions deftly move from earnest ballads to songs of sardonic wit.

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CD Reviews

Super, and how to listen to his song "Wheels"

Thomas W. Sulcer | Summit, NJ USA | 03/14/2010

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Jamie Cullum is a young top caliber crossover artist who excels at almost everything -- jazz-piano, singing, arrangements, creativity, melodies, bass lines, so that he's been aptly dubbed "Sinatra in Sneakers" by the press. His singing is exciting, hungry, desperate with a fetching longing and bravado. Perhaps five or six songs in this SUPREMELY EXCELLENT ALBUM will become classics since they're borderline addictive; the other songs are excellent and creative, with fresh choices and unusual instrumentation. Cullum understands rhythm, beat, melody, harmony, and has wonderful ways of working with the bass and drums. If there's an area where Cullum needs improvement, it's lyrics, but generally I think most people don't care about words particularly on the up-tempo numbers. He combines a keen sense of timing and rhythm and melodies so each change is unpredicted but wonderful. Cullum is a joy to listen to. If you play his song "Wheels" while driving in your car, when he sings about the wheels falling off of the world, you'll feel airborne. He sings as well as Sinatra with subtle tones and choices. Supremely recommended!!!

Thomas W. Sulcer

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Dynamite on the keys!

Nse Ette | Lagos, Nigeria | 03/02/2010

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Nicknamed Jazz Hobbitt, UK singer Jamie Cullum refuses to be pigeonholed, covering songs by artists as diverse as Pharrell, Radiohead, Hendrix, and Kanye West, to mention a few.

His continues this genre hoping on his new CD "The Pursuit" which opens with the swinging big band Jazz reading of Cole Porter's "Just one of those things", the thumping piano Pop of "I'm all over it", the Coldplay-like "Wheels", and a beautiful woozy and haunting cover of "If I ruled the world" (with an incredibly beautiful piano break) which wouldn't sound out of place on a Massive Attack album.

A drastic piano reworking of Rihanna's "Don't stop the music" with slowly shuffling beats is a highlight, much like his remake of Pharrell's "Frontin'" was on his "Twentysomething" album.

"Mixtape" is an upbeat Pop number with his missus Sophie Dahl on backing vocals, "I think I love you" a beautiful lounge ballad (perfect for a candlelit dinner), "We run things" is a horn-sprinkled Jazz/Pop song with distorted sounds and Hip Hop beats, and closing is the 7 minute long droning House number "Music is through" with catchy piano breaks.

If you're a real music lover, this should be right up your alley. Bold and experimental."