….In the ten years that have passed since American Idol, Jennifer Hudson’s had a lifetime’s worth of highs and lows, including a fiance, the birth of her son, a weight loss of nearly 100 pounds and unfortunately, enduring the untimely deaths of her mother, brother and nephew in 2008. The somberness of those experiences seemed to seep into her previous material, whereas JHud still shows off Jennifer’s show-stopping soprano range, but with more age-appropriate ‘umph.’

With Hudson’s pipes and dream producers on-board (Pharrell Willams, R.Kelly, Timbaland and Mali Music, among others), the hits are plentiful: her collaboration with ‘Kellz,’ “It’s Your World,” is one, a dance-floor tailored Diana Ross “Love Hangover”-type groove with vocal interplay that recalls an 80s-era Aretha Franklin, and she….(please click here to read the full CD review at soultracks.com)