| This gifted 19-year-old jazz singer and pianist brings a meticulous perfectionism to his performances of prerock standards and original pop-jazz material. |
| But in working with the electronic-music producer Suba, something clicked: they lodged acoustic music and prerock Brazilian songcraft firmly at the core of a smart electronic dance-music framework. |
| Mr. Bublé recalled how his grandfather, a plumber, who gave him his love of the prerock songbook, used to trade work to get his grandson small gigs. |
| The prerock tradition has acquired so many layers of cultural implication that singers who take it too seriously tend to sound more like curators than entertainers. |
