Music Pick: Madeleine Peyroux

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX_uRMWFol4

The first time I heard Madeleine Peyroux sing I thought Billie Holiday had somehow been re-incarnated into this 39 year old Georgia born jazz/blues/pop singer, as her timber and phrasing are so similar. Turns out Lady Day was one of Madeleine's influences along with Bessie Smith, Patsy Cline, Edith Piaf, Johnny Mercer, Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, whose song "Dance me to the end of love" is featured. Cohen's version of his own composition is still tops for me but Peyroux's is prettier and shows how such a different style only enhances a fabulous tune and lyric.