Stacey Kent - Tenderly (2015)

TENDERLY, an intimate collection of standards, sees Grammy-nominated American Jazz singer STACEY KENT revisit the Great American Songbook, the repertoire for which she first became known. The album sees Stacey performing alongside legendary composer/guitarist, Roberto Menescal - one of Brazil’s most important 20th Century musical figures, founding father of Bossa Nova, record producer, and winner of a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2014 Latin Grammy Awards.

TENDERLY is Stacey’s first standards album since her Gold-selling 2003 album, THE BOY NEXT DOOR. The intervening years have seen Kent broaden her repertoire to include originals written specially for her by famed novelist, Kazuo Ishiguro and Jim Tomlinson. Her platinum-selling, Grammy-nominated BREAKFAST ON THE MORNING TRAM (Blue Note/EMI 2007), was described in Jazz Times as a "marvelously inventive launching pad for this bold, brave new Kent.”

With Stacey’s husband on saxophone and flute and Jeremy Brown on bass, this intimate collection of songs is something of a homecoming for both Stacey and Roberto. For Stacey, it is a return to the Great American Songbook and for Roberto, it is a return to the jazz roots that inspired that young guitarist in the heyday of the Bossa Nova years.

Tracklist:

01. Only Trust Your Heart
02. Tangerine
03. The Very Thought Of You
04. Embraceable You
05. There Will Never Be Another You
06. Tenderly
07. No Moon At All
08. If I m Lucky
09. Agarradinhos
10. In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning
11. That s All
12. If I Had You