(Jazz/Vocal) Stacey Kent - Love Is... The Tender Trap - 1999, FLAC (image + .cue), lossless

Review by Scott Yanow
Stacey Kent has an attractive voice and a lightly swinging style. For Love Is...The Tender Trap -- her debut as a leader -- she is joined by tenor saxophonist Jim Tomlinson (who recalls Scott Hamilton and Stan Getz in spots), guitarist Colin Oxley, pianist David Newton, bassist David Green, and drummer Jeff Hamilton. Kent uplifts each of the familiar tunes slightly but does not add much of herself to the material. Certainly these versions of "I Didn't Know About You," "Comes Love," "East of the Sun," and "They All Laughed" would not qualify as definitive, or dwarf one's memory of earlier renditions. But Stacey Kent has potential for the future once she grows a bit more. A pleasing if insubstantial effort.

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Stacey Kent / Love Is... The Tender Trap
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Close Your Eyes - 1997 http://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=445797
Love Is... The Tender Trap - 1999 http://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=447019
Let Yourself Go - 2000 http://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=424723
Collection Vol. 1 - 2002 http://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=446427
Dreamsville - 2002 http://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=446642
In Love Again - 2003 http://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=428172
The Boy Next Door - 2003 http://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=431273
The Lyric (Jim Tomlinson/Stacey Kent) - 2006 http://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=445422
Breakfast On The Morning Tram - 2007 http://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=422823