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Title: Mining The Romance of Richard Rogers
Review: Stacey Kent is a young, native New Yorker who now lives, and generally performs, in England: that's what might happen to an American singer who falls in love with an English saxophonist. She's jazz-oriented, mining the great American standards: in this album, principally Richard Rodgers. In others, also the Gershwins, Cole Porter. Her touch is light, conversational,transparent; her attack fluid, swinging. And she's cute, too.She and her husband, tenor sax man Jim Tomlinson wind and curl around each other's voices, bringing to mind the great romantic collaborations of Billie Holiday and Lester Young;of Astrid Gilberto and Stan Getz. Or, in more contemporary terms, John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey. Liner notes on this album were written by the English Booker Prize winning novelist Kazuo Ishiguro. I've been so lucky as to see Kent (and Tomlinson)in person, at New York's famed Algonquin Hotel, and it was one wonderful show. Fine, mellow, and romantic, too.
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