Who is Jamie Cullum? If he were an athlete, his stats would look great: Golden Globe, BRIT Award and Grammy nominee. Winner of BBC 2′s Artist of the Year in 2005. He’s sold millions of albums since his first album came out in 1999. His background is as a Jazz musician, which is timelessly cool. So why had I not heard of him before six weeks ago?

Front-to-back, Jamie Cullum’s The Pursuit is a solid effort by an establish artist who’s market typically runs outside the sight-lines of music fans obsessed with the overly obscure and frequently bearded. Find out why …

British singer Jamie Cullum has announced the release of his new album, The Pursuit, which will be released on March 2, 2010. The album is Cullum’s third for Verve Records and his first in four years.