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Following a pair of hardcore jazz albums devoted to intricate ensemble scoring (Jazz on Film) and evocative original music (Wandering Moon), Terence Blanchard relaxes, exploring a variety of glass-half-full love songs by Jimmy McHugh with four of the hottest divas of the day. Blanchard's third songbook effort (following Billie Holiday and Ivan Lins) is a well-balanced affair, with updated arrangements that elicit fresh readings of the old warhorses by Diana Krall ("Let's Get Lost"); Dianne Reeves ("I Can't Believe That You're in Love With Me," "Can't Get Out of This Mood"); Cassandra Wilson ("Don't Blame Me," "Sunny Side of the Street"); and Jane Monheit ("Too Young to Go Steady," "I Can't Give You Anything but Love"). Blanchard won Downbeat's Best Artist, Best Trumpeter, and Best Album awards for 2000; he brings his instantly recognizable trumpet voice -- urbane, erotic, lyric -- to telling obbligatos and spot-on solos on an immensely enjoyable date. And don't neglect pianist Ed Simon's dark, Latinate arrangements of "I'm In the Mood for Love" and "Exactly Like You." Ted Panken, Barnes & Noble