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''The Lyric'' is a 2006 jazz album by saxophonist and percussionist
Jim Tomlinson and vocalist
Stacey Kent, who sings on ten of the thirteen tracks.
[Gordon Miller]
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''The Lyric'' won the Album of the Year award at the 2006
BBC Jazz Awards
The BBC Jazz Awards were set up in 2001 and had the status of one of the premier jazz awards in the United Kingdom (among those presenting the awards were Denis Lawson, Sue Mingus, Humphrey Lyttelton, Ian Carr, Clive James, Mike Gibbs, Julian Jo ...
. The BBC's Gordon Miller recommended the album for its "craft, dedication and integrity".
John Fordham of ''
The Guardian
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'' described it as "a repertoire of standards and sambas" characterized by the artists' "musicianly and understatedly spontaneous take on smooth jazz".
[John Fordham]
Jim Tomlinson/Stacey Kent, "The Lyric"
''The Guardian
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'', 16 March 2006.
Track listing
# "
Manhã de Carnaval
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Luiz Bonfá
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Biography
Luiz Floriano Bonfá was born on October 17, 1922, in ...
and
Antonio Maria) - 4:05
# “
Corcovado
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Corcovado hill lies just west of the c ...
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Antônio Carlos Jobim
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,
Gene Lees
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) - 3:46
# “
I've Grown Accustomed To His Face” (
Frederick Loewe,
Alan Jay Lerner) - 4:51
# “
If I Were A Bell
"If I Were a Bell" is a song composed by Frank Loesser for his 1950 musical ''Guys and Dolls''.
Guys and Dolls
In the show ''Guys and Dolls'', it is sung by the character Sister Sarah, originally performed by Isabel Bigley on Broadway, and memor ...
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Frank Loesser
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) - 3:55
# “
I Got Lost In His Arms” (
Irving Berlin
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Born in Imperial Russ ...
) - 5:12
# “
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Michel Legrand
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,
Alan Bergman,
Marilyn Bergman
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) – 6:28
# “Cockeyed Optimist” (
Richard Rodgers,
Oscar Hammerstein II) – 4:37
# “
My Heart Belongs to Daddy” (
Cole Porter) – 3:41
# “
The Surrey With The Fringe On Top
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Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, ...
” (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein ?) – 4:34
# “Outra Vez” (Antônio Carlos Jobim) – 4:51
# “Jardin D'hiver” (
Keren Ann Zeidel,
Benjamin Biolay) – 3:17
# “Something Happens To Me” (
Jack Segal, Marvin Fisher) – 3:51
# “
Stardust” (
Hoagy Carmichael
Hoagland Howard Carmichael (November 22, 1899 – December 27, 1981) was an American musician, composer, songwriter, actor and lawyer. Carmichael was one of the most successful Tin Pan Alley songwriters of the 1930s, and was among the first ...
,
Mitchell Parish
Mitchell Parish (born Michael Hyman Pashelinsky; July 10, 1900 – March 31, 1993) was an American lyricist, notably as a writer of songs for stage and screen.
Biography
Parish was born to a Jewish family in Lithuania, Russian Empire in July 190 ...
) – 5:09
Personnel
*
Jim Tomlinson – tenor saxophone, percussion
*
David Newton - piano
* Dave Chamberlain – double bass
* Matt Skelton - drums
*
Stacey Kent – vocals (except 1 & 10), whistling (11)
Recorded at Curtis Schwartz Studios, 9–10 August 2005
References
Jazz albums by American artists
Stacey Kent albums
2005 albums
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