Madeleine Peyroux: Standing on the Rooftop – review

(Emarcy/Decca)The dusky, retro-jazz croon that made Madeleine Peyroux famous is still present, and there are crowd-pleasing covers of McCartney's "Martha My Dear" and Dylan's "I Threw it All Away", but her ambitions have evolved since 2009's self-penned Bare Bones. With Norah Jones's producer Craig Street in charge, there's an inventive edge to standouts such as the title track and her tender version of WH Auden's "Lay Your Sleeping Head", arranged by guitarist Marc Ribot. Peyroux's lyrics are b...

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