Blue Note in Paris has signed U.S. jazz singer, Stacey Kent, to an exclusive worldwide recording deal. Her debut album with Blue Note, Breakfast On The Morning Tram', will be released worldwide in autumn 2007. The album is produced by Stacey's husband, tenor saxophonist, Jim Tomlinson, whose latest album, 'The Lyric', featuring Stacey, won Best Album at the 2006 BBC Jazz Awards.
"Blue Note is the label that just feels right," says Stacey. "It's the label I dreamed of as a kid. Signing with Blue Note, I feel like Steffi Graf must have felt the first time she stepped onto court to play Martina Navratilova. I've always had enormous respect for Blue Note and for the artists on the label. So many personalities and different ways of expressing music and always with such integrity and soul. To be part of this family and history is a dream come true."
WHY 'BREAKFAST ON THE MORNING TRAM'?
'Breakfast On The Morning Tram' sees Stacey Kent's return to the studio after a four-year recording hiatus with a new album on a new label. But why 'Breakfast On The Morning Tram'? The choice of title is both obvious and daring. It is obvious because the idea of breakfast and morning signal the start of something new and tram represents a journey in a fresh direction. It is daring because the title track is an original song and is the first original that Stacey has recorded. It was written especially for her, like three other songs on the album, by prize-winning author, Kazuo Ishiguro and producer, Jim Tomlinson.
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