The accompaniment is somewhat trimmed down on this new album although it does have a string quartet that saws away effectively on If You go Away and Tomlinson does attempt to redress the balance by playing seven different instruments over the course of the eleven tracks.
He's proficient on all of them but it's his cool sounding tenor sax that will get him the Freedom of Hexham
Stacey is her inimitable self adding an emotive content to the material both in English and in French. Soft and sensuous at times, strident at others she captures the composer's intent perfectly.
A note about the songs. They include compositions by Legrand, the Bergmans, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Jobim, Loewe and Lerner as well as couple from Tomlinson himself.
It all came about (the album) when, after a concert, fans would ask them which song they'd played and which album was it on? Needless to say, not every song that she sung live got recorded. In the case of If You go Away, she sings it, first in English, then on the final track, in French as Ne me quitte pas. Fans of Stacey Kent will want this one.
It's available on CD and digital from a week tomorrow (Nov. 10) on Naïve Records. Lance
Summer me, Winter me; La Valse des Lilas; Thinking About the Rain; Under Paris Skies; If You go Away; Happy Talk; Show me; Postcard Lovers; Corcovado; A Song That Isn't Finished Yet; Ne me quitte pas
Stacey Kent (vocals); Jim Tomlinson (tenor sax, flute, alto flute, clarinet, guitar, perc, keys); Art Hirahara (piano on 8 tks); Tom Hubbard (bass on 8 tks); Anthony Pinciotti (drums on 8 tks); Graham Harvey (piano on 3 tks); Jeremy Brown (bass on 3 tks); Joshua Morrison (drums on 3 tks) + Aurélie Chenille, Claire Chabert (violins); Fabrice Planchat (viola); Gabriel Planchat (cello)
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