Jamie Cullum: Catching Tales

Herald rating: * *

This tepid effort tries even harder than last year's Twentysomething to make the elfin piano-tinkler/singer the jazz-Robbie by employing Williams' old co-writer Guy Chambers on some forgettable tracks among Cullum's own self-conscious toe-tappers.

He also ambles through his usual quota of standards (I Only Have Eyes for You, Our Day Will Come), and his take on the Doves' Catch the Sun proves Britrock anthems are rarely improved by adding buckets of piano.

Label: Universal