She encompasses an almost bewildering array of styles. I'm Dreaming . She is equally at home with the gorgeous, meandering melody of Michel Legrand's His Eyes, Her Eyes as she is with Judy Collins' sweetly poetic declaration of true love, Since You Asked . More Than You'll Ever Know is the kind of lush ballad Diana Ross would kill for and then fail to deliver with the gentle sincerity that Cole displays here. The album's only real clinker is a version of Lorraine Ellison's Stay With Me on which, with perhaps a little too much deference to the original, Cole seems curiously tense and unwilling to open up, her voice also flaring uncomfortably on some of the big notes.
Compensation comes in the form of a number associated with another great soul diva.