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Jamie Cullum
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At a time when the Great American Songbook has been pillaged by aging pop stars unwilling to hang up their rock 'n' roll shoes, British vocalist Jamie Cullum breezed onto the scene like a tenor-throated zephyr. Part Dave Frishberg, part Harry Connick, Jr., and part Orlando Bloom, the twentysomething Cullum slides comfortably between the poppier side of the jazz and rock worlds, a hipster in slacker's clothing. His influences run the gamut from too-hip-for-the-room to geek chic, always a good sign for a young artist's potential longevity; like Norah Jones, with whom he's been compared, Cullum eludes the flavor-of-the-month club in favor of the long haul. And if he's this good now, we can't [i]wait[/i] until the moisture behind his ears dries out — when he hits his thirties and forties, the age when many jazz and pop interpreters do their best work.