Stream: Jessie Ware, “What You Won’t Do for Love”

Photographer Paul Scala
May 22, 2012

Jessie Ware shares this cover of Bobby Caldwell's 1978 smash, "What You Won't Do for Love," produced by previous collaborator Sampha, who replaces the original's swaying, end-of-a-wedding brass with dotted cell phone ring tickle and staccato vocal samples that lift and fizz like Prosecco bubbles. Ware's vocal starts coy then gets huge, towering over Sampha's plush backing harmonies. The shift is so graceful, it's easy to miss.

Stream: Jessie Ware, "What You Won't Do for Love"

Stream: Jessie Ware, “What You Won’t Do for Love”