Artist: Stacey Kent
Album: Dreamsville
Label: Candid Records
Genre: Vocal
Styles: Vocal, Vocal Jazz, Standards
Recording Date: Jun 19, 2000-Jun 21, 2000
Release Date: May 2001
Quality / Bitrate: MP3 / 320 kbit/s / 44.1 Khz / Joint Stereo
Total Time: 54:14 Min
Total Size: 124 MB
Website: http://www.staceykent.com/

Vocalist Stacey Kent may or may not be "the greatest ballad singer in half a century," as her PR claims, but her straightforward renditions of these by-request ballads are not at all generic. What makes them consistently delightful is her unique sound and delivery. There's a certain brassiness, a trumpet-like pointedness, in her voice, as well as a host of endearing idiosyncrasies. Listen to her pronounce the word "idea" in George and Ira Gershwin's "Isn't It a Pity?" Or deliver these remarkable lyrics from the same song: "What joys untasted!/You, reading Heine/Me, somewhere in China." And later, "My nights were sour, spent with Schopenhauer." Kent knows how to make every tune fit her own musical persona. Dreamsville includes a number of seldom-heard gems, particularly "You Are There" by Johnny Mandel and Dave Frishberg, "You're Looking at Me" by Bobby Troup, and the ever-stunning title track by Henry Mancini. She also presents perennial favorites like "Polka Dots and Moonbeams" and "Thanks for the Memory" (the latter not exactly a ballad). And although this is Kent's hour all the way, her band provides expert backing and more than a few surprises. The singer's husband, Jim Tomlinson, takes a break from tenor sax to play a sumptuous clarinet solo on "Polka Dots." And in the midst of Rodgers & Hart's "Little Girl Blue," pianist David Newton, bassist Simon Thorpe, and drummer Jasper Kviberg fall away, entering again only after Tomlinson and Colin Oxley perform a hushed tenor/guitar duet chorus. -- Review by David R. Adler --

TRACKLIST
01. I’ve Got А Crush On You [4:43]
02. When Your Lover Has Gone [4:35]
03. Isn’t It А Pity? [5:34]
04. You Are There [2:27]
05. Under А Blanket Of Blue [4:03]
06. Dreamsville [5:35]
07. Polka Dots And Moonbeams [4:34]
08. Hushabye Mountain [2:38]
09. Little Girl Blue [5:38]
10. You’re Looking At Me [4:31]
11. Violets For Your Furs [5:44]
12. Thanks For The Memory [4:12]

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