The veteran musician and singersongwriter Jeffrey Osborne has been a little quieter in the studio since the turn of the new millennium. This follow-up to his 2013 standards release A Time For Love, which featured a heavyweight line-up including Christian McBride, George Duke and Kamasi Washington, is an all-originals collection with 11 of its 12 songs written, arranged and produced by Osborne, plus a co-write with his son, Jeffrey Osborne, Jr. Worth It All sees the man with the golden voice returning to his roots, delivering an unashamedly old school R&B record whose opener, ‘Let A Brotha Know’, sounds like it could have been plucked straight from the L.T.D. songbook. With songs such as the stripped back title-track – in which Osborne is beautifully accompanied on Rhodes by Frankie Crawford – and the ‘Greatest Night’, the four-time Grammy nominee and Rhode Island native shows that he still possesses the knack of penning an affecting, memorable ballad.