Released in 2011, Alexander Stewart's debut album All Or Nothing At All revealed a singer with omniverous taste. Stewart's wide-ranging musical interests are once again on show – the debut featured Blondie, Sam Sparro, The Smiths and Paul Simon alongside Ellington, Jimmy Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn – with Freddie Gavita's big band arrangement of Stevie Wonder's ‘Part-Time Lover’ getting the album off to a blistering start. Van Heusen appears again in a brilliant, head-nodding reimagining of ‘I Thought About You’, one of seven tracks that feature the silken strings of the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Stewart swaggers convincingly through big band showstoppers ‘Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?’ and ‘I Get the Sweetest Feeling’, while the understated charm of his own ‘Suitcase Of Dreams’ is the pick of the originals. Arranged by pianist and co-producer Rob Barron, the album comes to a close with a fine account of the Bacharach/David classic, ‘A House Is Not a Home’.