Author: KENT,STACEY

Format: Remixes included

Release Date: 10-01-2003

Details: Product Description It's only her second album, but what an impact she has had on the jazz world. Ms. Kent's natural vocal abilities are in full force once more on this wonderful collection. While the songs are quite familiar to most, she breathes new life into each one with a distinctive voice, superb diction and sublime performance. If you're a fan of how they used to make 'em, guess what? They're still making em like they used to...and just as good! Amazon.ca With the passing years the definition "jazz singer" has taken on wider meaning. Purists once maintained that it covered only the vocals of Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday and a handful of others. Nowadays it quite legitimately refers to a host of fine singers whose musicianship allows them to take liberties with the relationship of notes to bar lines and the "bending" of a lyric to fit a paraphrase of the melody as written. Stacey Kent, a young American lady resident in Britain, is a jazz singer and responds to the jazz musicians with whom she works and to the material that she uses. The Tender Trap is made up of a dozen quality songs of the kind that jazz musicians like to play. On eight of them her husband Jim Tomlinson, a tenor saxist of considerable talent, joins her. Stacey Kent is not afraid to tackle difficult songs which started life as instrumentals (Edgar Sampson's "Don't Be That Way" and Duke Ellington's "I Didn't Know About You"). For quiet intimacy there is an outstanding version of "Wee Small Hours" on which she is accompanied only by pianist Dave Newton. An outstanding record of vocal artistry. -- Steve Voice

UPC: 708857975129

EAN: 0708857975129

Languages: English

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood