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~ Stacey Kent
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  • Audio CD (16 May 1997)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Candid
  • ASIN: B00003004Q
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 25,318 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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    #8 in  Music > Jazz > Labels > Candid
    #61 in  Music > Jazz > Vocalists > Female

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Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. More Than You Know 5:36£0.79
Listen  2. Dream Dancing 4:23£0.79
Listen  3. Close Your Eyes 5:24£0.79
Listen  4. There's A Lull In My Life 4:26£0.79
Listen  5. Its Delovely 3:25£0.79
Listen  6. There's No You 6:14£0.79
Listen  7. I'm Old Fashioned 2:59£0.79
Listen  8. You Go To My Head 7:01£0.79
Listen  9. Little White Lies 4:16£0.79
Listen10. Sleep Warm 4:37£0.79
Listen11. Day In - Day Out 5:49£0.79


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People seem to get hooked on Stacey Kent. She's not so much an acquired taste as someone who takes command of the listener. An American who lives in Britain, she has her own jazz style but has obviously absorbed the work of all the other singers from Billie Holiday to Frank Sinatra and back again. Unusually--for she is quite young--she interprets the great songbook in the terms of the swing era. But she has all the technical sophistication of contemporary singers, and the total of her talents in various directions makes her one of the most enticing singers of the day. The delicacy of her taste leads her to little- known gems of the Broadway writer's art and, although there are unhackneyed standards from Porter and Kern in this collection, there are also beautiful pieces like "There's A Lull In My Life" and "Sleep Warm". She works regularly with the members of the backing group here and they include pianist Dave Newton, the remarkable drummer Steve Brown, and Kent's husband, Jim Tomlinson, a tenor player of Getz-like proportion. --Steve Voce

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5.0 out of 5 stars MAGICAL, 12 April 2003
First heard of Stacey Kent when Humph Lyttleton played one of her recordings, was hooked from that moment, her voice is unmistakeable and her backing musicians just match that voice to perfection, saxophonist Jim Tomlinson just makes your toes tingle, this is a MUST HAVE for any collection don't miss out you will never tire of Stacey Kent.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Close Your Eyes and relax, 15 Jun 2001
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This is such a great album! Relax to it. Unwind to it. Entertain your friends to it. Stacey's voice is guaranteed to charm - she wasn't voted 'Best Vocalist' at the 2001 British Jazz Awards without reason! Her diction and phrasing are impeccable and she makes each song her own. She is equally suited to the slow bluesy numbers, like 'More Than You Know' and the more sassy upbeat songs, such as 'Day In - Day Out'. Having bought both Close Your Eyes and Let Yourself Go, I'm finding it hard to listen to anything else at the moment!
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16 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Quality debut from a brilliant jazz singer, 23 Dec 2003
By Peter Durward Harris "Pete the music fan" (Leicester England) - See all my reviews
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Stacey was born and raised in New York but moved to London and it was there that she embarked on a career as a jazz singer. Stacey is now a major name in British jazz and a new album release from her is always something to look forward to. Stacey claims Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and Mildred Bailey among her influences, but her voice is more like Mildred's than the other two.

This debut album is a great showcase for Stacey's talents, with plenty of great covers of standards from the Great American Songbook, on which Stacey is backed by some of the finest musicians on the British jazz scene. Among the classics (mainly ballads) on this album are two Cole Porter songs (Dream dancing, It's de-lovely) and two co-written by Johnny Mercer (I'm old-fashioned, Day in day out), together with six other excellent songs. Stacey interprets the songs her way – superbly.

Experts will tell you that Stacey has perfected her craft with subsequent albums, but by my reckoning there really wasn't all that much room for improvement. This is a great jazz vocal album.

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