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Jazzablanca Festival 2014: Casablanca, Morocco
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by Mehdi El Mouden
Hippodrome Anfa Jazzablanca Festival Casablanca, Morocco March 29-April 3, 2014 Jazz breathes new life through the Jazzablanca Festival. Rethinking Jazz culture is a difficult process, as no findings about jazz audiences in Morocco exist. Jazz is only brought to the fore of discussion at festival time. The media does not publicize ...
Stacey Kent: The Changing Lights
by Dan Bilawsky
Stacey Kent's voice operates at the intersection of knowingness and innocence. She delivers every song with finesse, balancing a sense of wide-eyed wonderment with soft-handed confidence. Perhaps that's why she's been able to build such an enormous fan base since starting her singing career and showing up on listener's radars near the turn of the century. ...
Stacey Kent at Birdland
by Nick Catalano
After appearing in 18 countries on a world tour in support of their Warner Brothers CD The Changing Lights, Stacey Kent and her conductor/arranger/ saxophonist (and husband of 22 years) Jim Tomlinson wound up their travels at Birdland during the week of December 3rd. Transcending genres and national boundaries, the elfin-voiced multi-lingual Kent who has sung ...
Stacey Kent: The Changing Lights
by Bruce Lindsay
Stacey Kent is a jazz success story--not just in terms of her talent, but also in terms of her international popularity, with her previous three albums clocking up a total of over 500,000 sales. What makes her so successful? The Changing Lights, her tenth album, demonstrates all of the qualities.There's the material, a mix ...
Trondheim Jazz Festival: May 9-13, 2012
by John Kelman
Trondheim Jazz FestivalTrondheim, NorwayMay 9-13, 2012 Being Norway's third largest city, next to Oslo and Bergen, means something completely different to being the third largest city in Canada or the United States. With more than 25,000 students in a city of approximately 160,000 people, it's not unlike (albeit a little larger than) ...
The Lyric
Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: Manhã De Carnaval; Corcovado; I've Grown Accustomed To His Face; If I Were A Bell; I Got Lost In His Arms; What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life?; Cockeyed Optimist; My Heart Belongs To Daddy; The Surrey With The Fringe On Top; Outra Vez; Jardin D'Hiver; Something Happens To Me; Stardust.
Jim Tomlinson: The Lyric
by Bruce Lindsay
Saxophonist Jim Tomlinson originally released The Lyric in 2005 on his own Token Records label, winning the 2006 BBC Jazz Award for Best Album. It's a skillfully crafted collection of standards, given graceful and stylish life by the husband and wife partnership of Tomlinson and singer Stacey Kent. The recording gets a 2011 mid-price rerelease on ...
Stacey Kent: Trans-atlantically Yours
by David Adler
This interview was first published at All About Jazz in June 2001. Stacey Kent left the States in 1991 and unwittingly became a British-based international singing sensation. She met her present husband, tenor saxophonist Jim Tomlinson, while visiting friends in London, and one thing led to another. Her first demo received airplay from ...
Stacey Kent: Raconte-Moi
by Bruce Lindsay
While vocalist Stacey Kent has a keen ear for songs, a distinctive and engaging voice and a talent for interpretation, she is also critically acclaimed and commercially successful. Strikingly, like many American jazz musicians from Sidney Bechet onwards, she has gained particular fame and acceptance in France, her albums entering the pop charts and where, in ...
Stacey Kent: Raconte-Moi
by Andrew Velez
The opening tune of this set, from the winning vocalist Stacey Kent, is Jobim-Moustaki's “Les Eaux de Mars." In its English-language version, “The Waters of March," this bossa gem was well-known as the exclusive property of the late and wonderful Susannah McCorkle. Kent proves to be a worthy inheritor of it and other tunes in this ...
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