Stacey Kent

Birdland, NYC, June 12, 2014

Reviewed by Peter Haas for Cabaret Scenes

There is a gentle magic that seems to fill a club when Stacey Kent begins her set. As she half sings, half speaks, sometimes rocking slightly to the rhythms of her songs, the audience hushes and leans in to hear her.

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As her band picks up the beat, her listeners find themselves in two places: connected to Kent on stage and, at the same time, transported by her and with her to some far-away, indefinable place and time. So it was as she returned to Birdland this June for four two-set nights. Backed by her band’s elegant ensemble work as well as shining solos, Kent offered a mixture of modern Brazilian songs and original numbers in English, several of the latter co-written by her musical director, multi-instrument lead soloist (and husband), Jim Tomlinson.

Five of her songs were created by the late Brazilian legend Antonio Jobim, including “One Note Samba” (with the lyric, “I come back to that first note, as I must come back to you”), while several others were co-written by Tomlinson: “The Changing Lights” and the humorous “Waiter, Oh Waiter” with novelist Kazuo Ishiguru, and “Mais Uma Vez” with Portuguese poet Antonio Ladeira. Included, too, was an American movie song, Charlie Chaplin/John Turner/Geoffrey Parsons’s gentle “Smile.

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The grand band: Tomlinson on guitar, sax and soprano clarinet; Art Hirahara on piano, Tom Hubbard on bass; and Josh Morris on drums. Kent will return to Birdland in December. Line up now.