STACEY KENT - Love Is...The Tender Trap (1998) FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

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. by Scott Yanow
Tracklist :
1    The Tender Trap 4:41
Composed By – Jimmy Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn
2    I Didn't Know About You 4:35
Composed By – Bob Russell, Duke Ellington
3    Comes Love 3:55
Composed By – Charlie Tobias, Lew Brown, Sam Stept
4    In The Still Of The Night 4:30
Composed By – Cole Porter
5    Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear To Tread) 4:30
Composed By – Johnny Mercer, Rube Bloom
6    East Of The Sun 6:17
Composed By – Brooks Bowman
7    Zing! Went The Strings Of My Heart 4:11
Composed By – James F. Hanley
8    They Say It's Wonderful 4:51
Composed By – Irving Berlin
9    Don't Be That Way 4:18
Composed By – Benny Goodman, Edgar Sampson, Mitchell Parish
10    They All Laughed 5:52
Arranged By – Jeff Hamilton, Jim Tomlinson
Composed By – George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin
11    In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning 4:30
Composed By – Bob Hilliard, David Mann
12    It's A Wonderful World 4:20
Composed By – Harold Adamson, Jan Savitt, Leo Watson
Credits :
Bass – Dave Green
Drums – Jeff Hamilton
Guitar – Colin Oxley
Piano – David Newton
Producer, Saxophone [Tenor] – Jim Tomlinson
Vocals – Stacey Kent