Montell Jordan's third album opens on a hip-hop-brushed sample from Marvin Gaye's "I Want You," which serves as a head-bopping groove for the track "When You Get Home." At the same time, Jordan's voice – without sliding into mimicry – echoes the tremulous wound that was Gaye's vocal signature. If Jordan had settled for some latter-day form of scatting, letting voice and music alone sell...