Review: Chaka Khan's 'Hello Happiness' is mini bundle of joy

Chaka Khan, "Hello Happiness" (Diary/Island Records)

With just seven songs in 28 minutes, Chaka Khan's "Hello Happiness" is a little bundle of joy, emphasis on the little. But you shouldn't feel shortchanged.

Consider it instead as a corrective to all those overlong, overblown collections of incessant sonic doodles and listen ...