Stacey Kent: Dreamer in Concert – review

(Blue Note)The loudest sounds you hear on this 2010 Paris gig by jazz chanteuse Stacey Kent is the audience cheering. Brought up in New York and now living in London, the vocalist is a very big deal in France, and Raconte Moi was one of the biggest-selling French-language albums in the world last year. Kent's strengths – expressive delicacy at low volumes, flexible phrasing and instinctive dialogues with her saxophonist husband, Jim Tomlinson – are all here, on a set that reprises much the ...

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