Madeleine Peyroux spent her early years in Georgia, California, and New York before moving to Paris as a teenager, embracing the bohemian lifestyle of a street singer. Peyroux’s approach is heavily influenced by Billie Holiday, but her voice has a lot more cream and sugar. Her influences range from Bessie Smith, Patsy Cline and Peggy Lee and to Hank Williams, Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen. That wide range serves Peyroux well because one feels that nothing is beyond her grasp, and that rich sense of history is a nice touch too. Careless Love has a jazz pop feel with fine organ/piano, guitar, and brushwork accompaniment. The CD opens with a sensual but swinging take on Leonard Cohen’s “Dance Me To The End of Love” before segueing into the highlight here, “Don’t Wait Too Long,” a collaboration between Peyroux and Norah Jones associate Jesse Harris. Her sultry take on Dylan’s “You’re Going To Make Me Lonesome When You Go” is truly beautiful. There’s a casualness at play here that makes this sort of a light affair, but there’s also a persistent blue mood that has perfumed Peyroux’s music since the beginning.