Stacey Kent

Artist:  Stacey Kent
Born:  March 27, 1965.  South Orange, New Jersey, USA
Genre:  Jazz, Vocal, Vocal Jazz, Standards
Occupation:  Singer
Instruments:  Vocals

Stacey Kent is an American Jazz Singer from South Orange, New Jersey.  She attended Newark Academy In Livingston, New Jersey and graduated from Sarah Lawrence College.  She travelled to England after graduation to study music at Guildhall School Of Music and Drama in London, where she met saxophonist Jim Tomlinson, whom she married on August 9, 1991.  On her childhood days spent listening to the traditional beauty of Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole influenced her.  In 1990s, she began her professional career.  She got the following Awards, British Jazz Award in 2001, BBC Jazz Award, Album Of The Year for The Lyric in 2006, Ordre des Arts et Des Lettres in 2009 and Grammy Award nomination, Best Vocal Jazz Album, Breakfast on the Morning Tram in 2009.

Title:  I Know I Dream:  The Orchestral Sessions  (2017)
Genre:  Jazz, Vocal, Vocal Jazz, Standards
Label:  Sony Music
Rating:   *****

Tracks:

 1.  Double Rainbow  (4:34)
 2.  Photograph  (6:09)
 3.  Les Amours Perdues  (4:21)
 4.  Bullet Train  (7:36)
 5.  To Say Goodbye  (5:19)
 6.  Make It Up  (5:00)
 7.  Avec Le Temps  (4:22)
 8.  I Know I Dream  (5:39)
 9.  La Rua Madureira  (4:54)
10. Mais Uma Vez  (6:26)
11. That's All  (5:40)
12. The Changing Lights  (6:19)

Personnel:

Stacey Kent:  Vocals
Jim Tomlinson:  Saxophone, Alto Flute, Percussion
Graham Harvey:  Piano, Fender Rhodes
John Paricelli:  Guitars
Jeremy Brown:  Double Bass
Joshua Morrison:  Drums
Curtis Schwartz:   Fender Electric Bass on Track 4

With Orchestral  Sessions

I Know I Dream:  The Orchestral Sessions is the 15th studio album by Stacey Kent, released on October 20, 2017 by Sony Music.  Wonderful Smooth Vocal Jazz!