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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 ...
Martyna: Oh Butterfly
by Bruce Lindsay
Oh Butterfly, the first release from British singer and songwriter Martyna, is a brief but impressive debut. Her voice is light and expressive while the songs, all self-penned, herald the arrival of a talented composer--and one of these songs has the potential to become a bona fide standard. It's important not to give ...
Christina Gustafsson: My Move
by Bruce Lindsay
Recent years appear to have seen a resurgence of jazz vocalists, with singers covering songs from across musical genres as well as performing originals. Scandinavia has produced some fine new singers to help in this resurgence: Christina Gustafsson, from Sweden, has the potential to be one of the best. Her second album features the same core ...
Cosmopolitan Jazz with a Literary Accent
Stacey Kent, fresh from a tour of 27 countries, was in an exultant mood on Thursday evening at Birdland. Her latest album, Breakfast on the Morning Tram (Blue Note/EMI), has enjoyed the kind of commercial success in Europe that Diana Krall’s records achieve in the United States; it also earned her a Grammy nomination for best ...
Grammy Winner 2009: Jazz
= winner Category 45 Best Contemporary Jazz Album (For albums containing 51% or more playing time of INSTRUMENTAL tracks.) Randy In Brasil Randy Brecker [MAMA Records] Floating Point John McLaughlin [Abstract Logix] Cannon Re-Loaded: All-Star Celebration Of Cannonball ...
Vote for Stacey Kent - International Songwriting Competition
Stacey Kent's song "The Ice Hotel" is a finalist in the Jazz category of the 2007 International Songwriting Competition! TO VOTE FOR STACEY: visit the ISC website below and CAST YOUR VOTE FOR “THE ICE HOTEL." You can vote once a day. SonicBids Winners will be announced in April. songwritingcompetition.com
Stacey Kent: Breakfast On The Morning Tram
by Andrew Velez
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 ...
