Timeless

Although will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas would not be the first guy we’d turn to for career resuscitation, he manages not to fuck up this comeback engagement from aging Brazilian hipster Sergio Mendes. Boldface names like Justin Timberlake, the Roots, and John Legend are wheeled out to attract the kiddies and only occasionally sound misplaced among the sultry, inviting samba and bossa nova grooves that Mendes and co. conjure.