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Title: Misleadingly-titled compilation of standards
Review: The idea that this is a tribute to Michael Buble is amusing, since the Buble's own albums mostly consists of covers of existing pop classics. A more apt, if less catchy, title would therefore have been "an instrumental tribute album to some old standards that have been previously covered by Michael Buble".I can't argue with the choice of songs (ranging from Van Morrison's "Moondance" and Cole Porter's "I Got You Under My Skin" to The Bee Gees' "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart"), but the performance and interpretation (by a musician called Tom Bartsch) barely rise above the level of piano-bar/dining room music at best, and shopping-mall elevator muzak at worst.This is a pleasant but utterly forgettable instrumental album, better suited as low-volume background music for other activies (reading, working, paying your bills etc.).
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