Fallin'

Alicia Keys comes across as someone with the potential to be a jazz legend, who went the R&B-soul-pop route because of the wider appeal and money. Her voice with its tonal perfection, pitch dexterity and aching emotiveness, seems to toy with the lesser demands of the almost-jazz compositions from her new album. Of course, I waited desperately for her to sing Falling, and when she did, I thought I died and went to heaven. That Alicia came off a six-city Germany solo tour to open for George Michael here says much about Georgie boy. And her humility, I guess.