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Jamie Cullum
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Despite his familiarity with the pop standards that made Sinatra and Bennett household names, Jamie Cullum didn't turn off the jukebox at 1958. From the first few chords on his Fender Rhodes in "Mind Trick," Cullum tosses a musical bouquet towards Stevie Wonder's [i]Songs In the Key of Life[/i]-era sound, complete with double-tracked harmony vocals on the chorus. On his cover of the Beach Boys' "God Only Knows," he and bassist Geoff Gascoyne tear a page out of the Elvis Costello/Brodsky Quartet songbook, with a string section lending a delicate, drawing-room intimacy to the track. And when he wraps his magic around "I Only Have Eyes for You," Cullum transports us to a smoky Upper East Side jazz bar where fedora-sporting crooners of days gone by are still revered, but hip-hop beats have snuck in the side door with the roadies.