Breakfast on the Morning Tram

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Customer reviews

review by: date: 2008-10-11 rating:
Bland, Empty, Forgettable.
What an extremely disappointing album. I loved here previous albums. Her beautiful voice and her take on some wonderful standards. This albums is full of what I call single notes songs. They are tuneless and without melody. Stacey's voice and the excellent musicianship of her backing group lift it just a little but are wasted on these bland and empty songs. None of them are memorable and even the well known "Hard Hearted Hanna" and "What A Wonderful World" do little to turn this into a CD worth playing again. Please, please Stacey, come back to songs with soul, melody and a tune.

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review by: date: 2008-07-06 rating:
A beguiling and different album from Stacey Kent
Stacey Kent's highly polished albums of standards are extremely listenable if at times over-glossed tributes to the genius of the Great American Songbook. I have always had a few reservations about this particular musician, but on this new album I have to say I am completely won over. The unique feature of this project is, of course, the addition of four very evocative and melodic original songs by saxophonist/hubby Jim Tomlinson and lyrics by Kazuo Ishiguro. These songs are quite literally tailor-made for Kent's brand of reticent romanticism, and her singing on these numbers has a special personal quality. Sometimes her albums of standards have the feeling of a production line (though, admittedly, a very expert production line); these new songs prompt her to express something fresh. I particularly enjoyed "I Wish I Could Go Travelling Again".

The other cuts on the album are equally pleasurable, and again it's nice to see her tackling something a little off the beaten track: the delightful samba from "A Man and a Woman" is a real highpoint, and I am always pleased to hear a lovely reading of the beautiful Bergman/Mendes "So Many Stars". Stevie Nick's "Landslide" also makes a strong impression, for all it seems to venture into Norah Jones territory.

Overall, this CD is a treat from start to finish, a highly musical and intelligent collection of excellent songs. At Amazon's price of under a fiver, you can't really say no.

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review by: ex-fan des 60s date: 2008-04-01 rating:
If you like Francoise Hardy...
you'll be pleased to find Ces petits riens on this CD. I know, that's obsessive.

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review by: date: 2007-11-13 rating:
Wonderful Voice
My first Stacey Kent album, having heard her recently on Radio 3's 'In Tune'. Most of this album is excellent, though I found the title track, after a couple of hearings, to be a bit silly. The hook is her voice, of course, which is so fresh and clear. I looked on here to see what else she has done and was disappointed to see that most of it is from the 'American songbook'. I'd like to hear more original stuff - listening to the standards is tainted by other voices.


review by: date: 2007-10-30 rating:
Uninspired Selection
Diana Krall recorded tuneless and joyless songs in her 'Girl in the Other Room' but has since returned to form.

Hopefully Stacey Kent will in similar fashion now have excised those demons that drive successful artists to substitute 'originality' for musicality. I expect her next recordings to revert to the kind of material that she performs with such skill and perceptiveness in all her previous work.

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