REVIEW: Trav’lin’ Light

Queen Latifah showed she could sing well in the movie Chicago. It made you wonder why she bothered rapping. She then released the excellent Dana Owen’s album. It contained a series of jazz and pop standards all done to excellent orchestration.

Her follow up is Trav’lin’ Light, which continues with more great covers of songs from the 50s through the 70s. I especially loved her rendition of Phoebe Snow’s Poetry Man and an excellent reinvention of 10cc’s I’m Not in Love. That was one of my favorite songs in high school and she reinterpreted it as a kind of light jazz tune. The result is wonderful.

This CD is highly recommended if you want something light and breezy to listen to.

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