Jewels in the Crown: All Star Duets with the Queen

1	Jumpin' Jack Flash / Keith Richards 5:08
2	Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves 5:55
3	I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me) / George Michael 4:03
4	What Now My Love 3:16
5	Put You Up on Game / Fantasia 4:16
6	What Y'all Came to Do / John Legend 3:17
7	Never Gonna Break My Faith / Boys' Choir of Harlem 4:17
8	Through the Storm / Elton John 4:26
9	It Isn't, It Wasn't, It Ain't Never Gonna Be / Whitney Houston 4:52
10	(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman / Bonnie Raitt 4:40
11	Doctor's Orders / Luther Vandross 4:34
12	Ever Changing Times / Michael McDonald 5:12
13	Chain of Fools / Mariah Carey 3:12
14	Don't Waste Your Time / Mary J. Blige 4:11
15	Love All the Hurt Away / George Benson 4:21
16	Nessun Dorma / New York Recording Orchestra 3:20

All Music Guide

There are duet records, and then there is recording "Jumpin' Jack Flash" with Keith Richards. A 16-track compilation of Aretha Franklin's duets from the '80s and '90s, Jewels in the Crown: All-Star Duets with the Queen benefits from the high-profile partners that the Queen of Soul has been able to hook over the years (plus a trio of new tracks featuring sympathetic partners: John Legend, Mary J. Blige, and Fantasia). Spanning her Arista years, the collection runs the gamut of studio techniques from the '80s to the 2000s. Six songs come from the '80s, including the Keith Richards feature, which is a little too pristine to suit a version of "Jumpin' Jack Flash." Others from the same era sound better, such as "Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves" with Eurythmics (which benefits from David Stewart's digital studio knowledge), and Franklin's hit duet with George Michael on "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)." The '90s duets are also mixed, including a lackluster pairing with Frank Sinatra on "What Now My Love" (from the original Duets album), but also an energetic live performance of "Chain of Fools" with Mariah Carey that works much better than could be expected. Of the new tracks, John Legend's "What Y'All Came to Do" is the best, an upfront and testifying jam with deft vocal freestyles from Legend and Franklin. John Bush

Rolling Stone

...there are three "newly recordeds," the prize featuring not Mary J. Blige or John Legend but Fantasia, whom the Queen indulges as the naive young thing she is... 1/2 Robert Christgau