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Topic: michael buble sucks!

In all fairness to Bublé and several other young singers on the scene, he needs to live with the music a bit longer. So many young musicians are thrust into the spotlight long before they’re ready. This was accepted in the pop world, but in jazz one used to earn his/her first record date.
And now with Bublé, a pop singer singing in a quasi-jazz setting, he’s unrealistically expected to have the same taste, flair and nuance as someone who actually grew up with this music, like Sinatra and Cole, even Bobby Darin.

Kevin Mahogany is a jazz singer; Bublé is not, even though he may be marketed as one. Can he deliver in a stripped-down, voice with piano trio setting? Maybe, but not likely.
I went to a most illuminating concert years ago: Sarah Vaughan opened for Sammy Davis Jr. Sammy’s band was tight, with slick arrangements and expert direction. Sammy’s bandleader never looked at him; he cued the band for each joke, every spoken intro, each time SD would dance or hold a note or break character. The show was that well rehearsed.
Sarah’s trio, on the other hand, watched her like hungry hawks. She had a set list and charts, to be sure, but a couple times I watched her start a tune cold, and the band just went with it. When the song ended, there was laughter all around the stage- “whew! dodged a bullet that time…”

That concert crystallized the difference between a showman and a jazz artist.

Bublé was packaged to cater to a certain audience, and he does.
But it’s unfair to compare him with jazz singers: he isn’t, nor is he trying to be, a jazz singer. He doesn’t suck, really, he’s just something different.
If you want jazz singing, stick with Kevin Mahogany, Kurt Elling, Giacomo Gates, JD Walter. Bublé, Peter Cincotti, Michael Feinstien, Steve Tyrell and the others in the Croon Clan can’t help you.