This pseudo-jazz interpreter's latest release, in stores Tuesday, continues her foray into the world of pop music that began in earnest on 1997's Dark Dear Heart.

That album spawned the first mainstream hit of Cole's decade-long career, with a cover of the Beatles' I've Just Seen A Face.

This time out the material, produced by Grammy Award-winning producer Steve Ferrera (Suzanne Vega, Jeff Beck, Julian Cope, Ravi Shankar), covers both Tin Pan Alley classics and more contemporary songs such as Paul Simon's One Trick Pony.

While Cole is clearly enjoying flexing her musical muscles, her choice of songs makes for uneven results.

Standouts include the Laura Harding-penned melodic pop numbers, If I Start To Cry, and Make It Go Away, the first single that was also on Dark Dear Heart, but rerecorded for the new album.

Cole also does justice to the title track, a bossa-nova inflected original written by her longtime bassist David Piltch, and sexily croons her way through Don't Fence Me In and Randy Newman's poignant Same Girl.

Less engaging is the other Piltch-penned number, I'll Be There and the hum-drum covers of Dedicated To The One I Love, Black Magic, Come Fly With Me, Newman's Ghosts and Stephen Sondheim's Loving You.

Track Listing 1. One Trick Pony (Paul Simon)
  2. Romantically Helpless (David Piltch)
  3. I'll be Here (David Piltch, David Baerwald)
  4. Ghosts (Randy Newman)
  5. Come Fly with Me (Sammy Chan, James Van Heusen)
  6. Dedicated to the One I Love (Ralph Bass, Lowman Pauling)
  7. That Old Black Magic (Harold Arlen, John Mercer)
  8. If I Start to Cry (Laura Harding, Jeff Hull)
  9. Loving You (Steven Sondheim)
  10. Make it Go Away (Aaron Davis, Laura Harding)
  11.Don't Fence Me in (Cole Porter)
  12. Same Girl (Randy Newman)