29/11/2023
I’m thrilled that SUMMER ME, WINTER ME is this week’s ALBUM OF THE WEEK at Jazzfm, UK. Great radio station run by wonderful people . Thanks Jazzfm 💕💕💕
Thanks, Naïve Records 💕💕💕
“Dazzling ambassador of vocal jazz, Stacey Kent, returns with Summer Me, Winter Me, a beautiful collection of new compositions and classic ‘chanson’ repertoire. Most of the songs are standards that Kent performed in the years leading up to the album’s three recording sessions, including music by Michel Legrand, Marilyn and Alan Bergman, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Lerner and Lowe and Jobim. There are also songs that have passed from the book of chansons to that of standards thanks to English adaptations – ‘If You Go Away’, recorded for the first time in English, is Jacques Brel’s ‘Ne me quitte pas’ with lyrics by Hal McKuen, and ‘Sous le ciel de Paris’ becomes ‘Under Paris Skies’ with lyrics by Kim Gannon. The album features new songs by Jim Tomlinson, ‘Thinking About The Rain’ and ‘A Song That Isn’t Finished Yet’, written with Cliff Goldmacher as well as a reworking of ‘Postcard Lovers’, with lyrics by Kazuo Ishiguro. “(‘Postcard Lovers’) was originally written for our live album, Dreamer in Concert,” explains Tomlinson. “In subsequent years, I came to feel that I’d left the writing room a little too soon, and so I began the process of revising the song around Stacey’s suggestion of transposing it to 3/4 time. The result is what you hear on this album, lyrically unaltered, but compositionally completed.”