Listen to:  My One and Only Thrill 1)  Baby I'm A Fool 2)  If the Stars Were Mine 3)  Who Will Comfort Me 4)  Your Heart Is As Black As Night 5)  Lover Undercover 6)  Our Love Is Easy 7)  Les Etoiles 8)  The Rain 9)  My One And Only Thrill 10)  Deep Within The Corners Of My Mind 11)  Over The Rainbow 12)  If the Stars Were Mine [Orchestral Version] RealOne Player (Download) Windows Media player (Download)

• Personnel: Melody Gardot (vocals, guitar, piano).
  
• Audio Mixers: Al Schmitt; Steve Genewick.
  
• Although the plaudits for Melody Gardot's debut album, WORRISOME HEART, were entirely justified, it sometimes seemed as if the young singer-songwriter's compelling personal story--hit by a car and severely injured at the age of 19, the aspiring fashion designer began playing piano and writing songs as part of her physical therapy--overshadowed her music. Gardot's second album, MY ONE AND ONLY THRILL, dispells that sense entirely: this gorgeous collection of lavishly orchestrated jazz-pop ballads is the work of a genuinely talented singer-songwriter. Gardot's melodic sense is greatly matured: opening track "Baby I'm A Fool" and "Lover Undercover" have the feel of new standards in the making. Similarly, she's a more expressive and self-assured singer, with a canny sense of timing and a sultry lower register that's particularly suited to a Julie London-style kittenish purr, as on "Our Love Is Easy." MY ONE AND ONLY THRILL is one of 2009's best jazz vocal releases.
  

JazzTimes (p.36) - Ranked #32 in JazzTimes' "Top 50 CDs of 2009."

Q (Magazine) (p.98) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "With a warm voice and a sensitive way with a song, Phildelphia's Gardot mixes jazz and R&B with elegant string arrangements and acoustic guitar to beguiling, small-hours effect."

Mojo (Publisher) (p.103) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Gardot's torch ballads smoulder intensely....'Our Love Is Easy,' 'Deep Within The Corners Of My Mind' and the title track are extraordinary performances..."

Record Collector (magazine) (p.92) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[The album] represents a quantum leap forward both in terms of maturity and quality of her performances....[With] shimmering orchestral arrangements from Vince Mendoza..."

Producer:	Larry Klein
Format:	CD
Country:	USA
UPC:	602517967823
Studio/Live:	Studio
Release Date:	28 April 2009