Jazz Articles about Memphis Piano Red

Stacey Kent: Breakfast On The Morning Tram

by Andrew Velez
November 8, 2007

Having previously demonstrated a knowing way with sets from the Great American Songbook and a special bent for Brazilian-flavored melodies, vocalist Stacey Kent takes on a different sort of mix here. And succeeds brilliantly, which shouldn't surprise anyone who has been listening to her, for this porcelain princess has gradually moved into the front rank of current young singers. Her voice--is it mercury or is it clear water running over stones in a brook?--falls ever so easily on the ear, ...