Stacey Kent

A stunning ambassador for jazz vocals as an expression, Stacey Kent, is returning to Cosmopolite for the eighth time, with her latest album "Summer Me, Winter Me"!

"A gemstone" - The Guardian

With a larger setup than last time, four musicians join Kent on stage to perform a mix of new compositions and her classic "chanson" repertoire.

"Kent's soft and bright voice is as compelling as ever" - The New York Times

Highlights from "Summer Me, Winter Me" include Jacques Brel's classic "Ne me quitte pas" in French and the English adaptation "If You Go Away."

The idea for the album arose from audiences often approaching Kent after concerts, asking where they could find recordings of the songs. Now, this audience-favorite material is available on a recording, on an album that Kent recorded with her husband Jim Tomlinson.

"The conveying of the lyrics is exquisitely subtle and deeply expressive" - Jazz Journal

Stacey Kent has previously collaborated with Nobel Prize-winning Kazuo Ishiguro, and the song "Postcard Lovers," co-written by Tomlinson and Ishiguro, has its place on the new album.

Kazuo Ishiguro says about Kent's jazz expression that it goes beyond being a conversation: "I want to take it one step further. She conveys better than any other singer I've heard the feeling of a person talking to themselves; wavering, hesitating, with inner thoughts bubbling over and zipping by."

Stacey Kent is an artist who not only celebrates and honors her musical inspirations from a distance; she goes straight to the source. An example is the album "Tenderly," which she created with the father of bossa nova, Roberto Menescal. The New York Times writes in a review: "The softer Kent sang, the more emotion she conveyed. She was at her most insightful when she slowed the tempo so that you couldn’t help but listen to the words in ballads sung in an unaffected, vibrato-less voice."

Kent is so admired for her music in Brazil that when the reconstruction of the Cristo Redentor statue in Rio de Janeiro was celebrated with a gigantic outdoor concert, Stacey Kent was the only foreign musician invited to perform. "It was an honor," says Kent.

Look forward to experiencing a fantastic jazz vocalist, who is in a constant state of artistic development, with brilliant musicians on stage!

Line up:

Stacey Kent – vocals
Jim Tomlinson – saxophone and flute
Art Hirahara - piano
Tom Hubbard – bass
Anthony Pinciotti - drums