CARO Emerald’s much anticipated third album is still in the pipeline, and way overdue.

So, understandably, diehard fans at last Saturday sold-out performance in Harrogate, introduced to a handful of new numbers, found the combined souvenir brochure and download package of that night's performance irresistible.

Inevitably, the opening track off The Shocking Miss Emerald album, namely Miss Emerald: Intro began proceedings before Caro broke into a succession of absolutely joyful dance songs including Riviera Life, Back It Up and Quicksand.

Although you would expect a world-class band of musicians to tour with such an important international talent, the quality of Miss Emerald’s band was outstanding. They needed to be. For the set presented a diverse palate of jazz in all its guises. From the Twenties and through the decades, but always infused with a futuristic electronic flavour, the band played a mean Charleston, Jitterbug and Jive. The musicianship of the brass section in particular rivalled that of Jools Holland and Mark Ronson’s bands.

The coolest and probably most successful musical artiste from the Netherlands to play Harrogate, Caroline Esmeralda van der Leeuw demonstrated an extraordinary talent that could have made her a star in any of the past nine decades, either as a vocalist in a traditional big band or a hip Beat troupe.

Familiar favourites such as Pack Up The Louie and Black Valentine were complemented with covers of the Propellerheads and Shirley Bassey's History Repeating, and Meghan Trainor’s All About That Bass.

The appreciative, but sedate audience were roused to their feet, with little resistance to the glorious Liquid Lunch, You Don’t Love Me, Stuck and Tangled Up. Another brand new song, the reggae infused Helicopter Boy, led into the show’s finale, the effervescent A Night Like This, which itself ended with a close harmony reprise by the full band. Simply wonderful.