Madeleine Peyroux (from the album Let’s Walk

Madeleine Peyroux (from the album Let’s Walk

Madeleine Peyroux (from the album Let’s Walk available on Just One Recording/Thirty Tigers) (By Lee Zimmerman)

The fact that Madeleine Peyroux can’t be typecast within any one genre is hardly an accident. Though it may be a calculated strategy on Peyroux’s part, her ability to transform from one style to the next could be considered the result of her varied environs while growing up. She was raised in New York and California and in her preteens moved with her mother to Paris. It was there that she began busking in that city’s famed Latin Quarter, singing Jazz and Blues standards before graduating to the stages of the Continent while attaining a professional pedigree.

Once she started recording in earnest, her penchant for melding Folk, Jazz, Blues, and Pop became a key characteristic, and given her deft blend of whimsy, romance, introspection, and insight, she’s managed to maintain a personal perspective which defines every album she’s offered since. Let’s Walk, her first outing since 2018’s Anthem, finds its focus courtesy of that particular finesse. “Blues for Heaven” showcases her as a seductive chanteuse, its gentle pacing and the prominent organ accompaniment making the song an ideal example of Peyroux’s demonstrative and emotive engagement. “Et Puis”, “Take Care”, and “Showman Dan” reflect a more playful posture, while the delicate designs of “How I Wish” have her immersed in hushed contemplation. On the other hand, “Me and My Mosquito” takes its cue from a kind of south-of-the-border sensibility that’s fully draped in Tejano trappings.

The most emphatic offering of all find’s fruition in the title track, carried along with a confluence of voices chanting in unison with an anthemic call to arms ‘
 
‘Let us advance our mortal bodies up
Where hearts and minds will go
Let’s walk, let’s roll’
 
It’s a message that’s well worth heeding, especially given the trouble, turbulence and deep divisions tearing at the fabric of society and the world in general these days. Madeliene Peyroux’s persuasive approach is consisting compelling and with Let’s Walk, she continues to pursue her own personal path. (by Lee Zimmerman)
 
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