Jazz Articles about Stacey Kent

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Stacey Kent with trio at Ladies' Jazz Festival 2026

by Marek J. Śmietański
September 26, 2026

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Four new releases from Stacey Kent, Hendrik Meurkens, Dan West Big Band & Peter Ersikine

by George Graham
March 31, 2026

This week we spotlight four new jazz releases from Stacey Kent, Hendrik Meurkens, Dan West Big Band, Peter ErskinePlaylist Stacey Kent “Lucky to Be Ne" from A Time for Love (Naive) 03:33 Stacey Kent “As" from A Time for Love (Naive) 05:03 Hendrik Meurkens “Samba Tonto" from Samba Tonto (Cellar) 04:37 Hendrik Meurkens “Chelsea Nocturne" from Samba Tonto (Cellar) 05:10 Dan West Big Band “Descant" from Presenting the Dan West Big Band (Self-released) 08:00 Dan West Big Band ...

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Stacey Kent At Birdland

by Mark Edelman
January 14, 2026

Stacey Kent Birdland New York, NYDecember 17, 2025 Coolly attired in sedate, simple black trousers and matching jacket, Stacey Kent warmed up a sold-out crowd with an eclectic set on a frigid Wednesday at New York City's celebrated jazz bôite, Birdland. Backed by longtime pianist Art Hirahara on the Yamaha grand, Tim Hubbard on bass and reedman (and Kent's husband of 34 years) Jim Tomlinson, Kent offered up a cool recital of her much-lauded, award-winning jazz ...

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Stacey Kent: Summer Me, Winter Me

by Neil Duggan
November 15, 2023

With her album sales measured in millions, Stacey Kent is one of the great success stories in modern jazz. Her multi-lingual abilities allow her to record in various languages and she has appeared in over fifty countries. Her appeal is global and it is her vocal ability which has taken her to these heights. Her voice is light but commands attention with her ability to engage and communicate the narratives of love and regret, often in a simple and minimalist ...

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Stacey Kent reflects on tension, collaboration, and the art of interpretation

by Leo Sidran
July 4, 2022

Stacey Kent says she tends to be attracted to the “feeling of unrest," and she thinks that her fans like to feel it too. Over the course of a 30 year career that has produced over 20 albums (including including the Grammy-nominated Breakfast On The Morning Tram), Stacey has mined that feeling again and again in different ways. Maybe she understands how to express the complicated emotions around identity, romance, displacement and longing because she has lived them ...

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Free Association, Vol. 4 with Stephanie Byrne

by Ludovico Granvassu
May 11, 2021

Free Association is a series of collaborative mix-tapes curated by Mondo Jazz in association with musicians and selectors of various backgrounds. Free Association mix-tapes develop as a conversation. The first selector sends a tune cherry-picked to suit, and ideally surprise, the second selector who then, in turn, returns the favor. An hour or so into this exchange, after unexpected turns and joyful revelations, the two look back at the results of this game of musical table tennis and ...

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Dr. Billy Taylor, Art Ensemble of Chicago and More

by Joe Dimino
May 6, 2019

We begin the 593rd Episode of Neon Jazz with singer Stacey Kent. From there, we take a listen to the cool of Art Blakey, Billy Taylor and Mark E. Walker. Over the course of the show we profile the mighty Dayramir Gonzalez, Chris Jentsch and listen to a new cat on the NYC scene known as Fumi Tomita. We finish things off with style with Frank Kimbrough doing his take on Mr. Thelonius Sphere Monk. Playlist Stacey Kent ...