Included on Quincy Jones’ new star-heavy compilation, Q: Soul Train Bossa Nostra, is Amy Winehouse’s first new studio recording since her rise to fame on the back of 2007’s Back to Black and the troubling downward spiral that followed. The good news — aside from her cover of Lesley Gore’s 1963 hit, “It’s My Party,” providing irrefutable evidence of the talented singer’s return to the studio — is that Winehouse clearly didn’t lose her distinct vocal chops amid the past few years of personal and public strife. Hear the Mark Ronson-produced comeback cut above.
