Released September 16, 1997 Length 53:21 Artist Stacey Kent Label Candid Records | Recorded November 18-19, 1996 Producer Alan Bates Release date 16 September 1997 Genre Vocal jazz | |
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Close Your Eyes
(1997) Love Is...The Tender Trap
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Close Your Eyes was jazz singer Stacey Kent's debut album, released in 1997 by Candid Records.
Contents
It was produced by Alan Bates and features her husband, tenor saxophonist Jim Tomlinson. Kent celebrated the release of Close your Eyes with a performance at the Birdland jazz club in New York City in September 1997. Close Your Eyes was the best-selling British jazz album of 1997.
In an interview with Billboard magazine to promote the album Kent said: "With this album, I was trying to give a mixture of things that people know and gems that got lost, songs that might get missed out of the great standard repertoire."
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Reception
Scott Yanow, writing on Allmusic.com, gave the album three stars out of five. In his review Yanow said: "Stacey Kent has a very appealing voice, and her delivery is full of joy, enthusiasm, and subtle creativity....Jim Tomlinson contributes some tenor solos reminiscent in tone of Stan Getz, and pianist David Newton and guitarist Colin Oxley also get some solo space." Yanow concluded by calling Kent "a voice to look for in the future".
Track listing
- "More Than You Know" (Edward Eliscu, Billy Rose, Vincent Youmans) - 5:30
- "Dream Dancing" (Cole Porter) - 4:21
- "Close Your Eyes" (Bernice Petkere) - 5:19
- "There's a Lull in My Life" (Mack Gordon, Harry Revel) - 4:22
- "It's De-Lovely" (Porter) - 3:21
- "There's No You" (Tom Adair, Hal Hopper) - 6:09
- "I'm Old Fashioned" (Jerome Kern, Johnny Mercer) - 2:53
- "You Go to My Head" (J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie) - 7:01
- "Little White Lies" (Walter Donaldson) - 4:10
- "Sleep Warm" (Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, Lew Spence) - 4:30
- "Day In, Day Out" (Rube Bloom, Mercer) - 5:45
Personnel
Songs
1More Than You Know (feat Jim Tomlinson - Colin Oxley - David Newton - Andrew de Jong Cleyndert & Steve Brown)Jim Tomlinson - David Newton - Colin Oxley - 5:36
2Dream Dancing (feat Jim Tomlinson - Colin Oxley - David Newton - Andrew de Jong Cleyndert & Steve Brown)Jim Tomlinson - David Newton - Colin Oxley - 4:23
3Close Your Eyes (feat Jim Tomlinson - Colin Oxley - David Newton - Andrew de Jong Cleyndert & Steve Brown)Jim Tomlinson - David Newton - Colin Oxley - 5:25