TV. First Listen: Adele, '21' Hide captionAdele's new album is 21. Courtesy of Columbia Records Adele's new album is 21. Audio for this feature is no longer available. Adele is a 22-year-old woman from London whose voice sounds as if it's being yanked out of her chest through the throat of someone much older; someone shouldering more painful stories and a far larger chest cavity. She says that both of her albums — 2008's 19, for which she won Best New Artist at the Grammys, and this one, 21 — are about boys, two different ones. What she says on record about these boys, and about what it's been like to break up with them, isn't any different from what many other singers and songwriters have said about other boys.
She sounds like a real person because her voice couldn't have been concocted in a studio. She's technically sound, and her ability to go big without dropping personality — to take it to the house when a song calls for it — recalls Kelly Clarkson in "Since U Been Gone. " 3VOOR12 Speler. De Nederlandse Publieke Omroep maakt gebruik van cookies. We maken een onderscheid tussen functionele cookies en cookies voor het beheer van webstatistieken, advertenties en social media.
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That's not a bad thing: Jazz is rooted in deep traditions that have sounded relatively timeless for decades. For example, Miles Davis' classic 1959 recording Kind of Blue is still a bestselling jazz album every year. It still sounds fresh in 2010. Many newer releases feature a number (if not a majority) of jazz standards. It's refreshing when a jazz artist, while still rooted in tradition, breaks away from standard material and does something altogether different. Evolution Of A Song: 'I Got Rhythm' : A Blog Supreme.