Love Is...The Tender Trap

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This article is about the Stacey Kent album. For the 1955 song, see (Love Is) The Tender Trap.
Love Is...The Tender Trap
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Studio album by
Stacey Kent
ReleasedJanuary 12, 1999
Recorded1999
GenreVocal Jazz
Length54:30
LabelCandid (UK)/Chiaroscuro (USA)
ProducerJim Tomlinson
Stacey Kent chronology
Close Your Eyes
(1997) 		Love Is...The Tender Trap
(1999) 		Let Yourself Go: Celebrating Fred Astaire
(2000)

Love Is...The Tender Trap is a 1999 studio album by Stacey Kent.[1]

Kent's second studio album, it was produced by and features her husband, tenor saxophonist Jim Tomlinson.[2] In an interview with Billboard magazine to promote the album Kent said that "Even when I'm singing of unrequited love, it may not reflect my life, but the quality of the song allows me to deliver it truthfully".[2]

Reception[]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic3/5 stars[1]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings3.5/4 stars[3]

Scott Yanow, writing for AllMusic, thought that Kent "has an attractive voice and a lightly swinging style." He added that she "uplifts each of the familiar tunes slightly but does not add much of herself to the material," and concluded by remarking on her future potential.[1]

Track listing[]

  1. "The Tender Trap" (Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen) - 4:42
  2. "I Didn't Know About You" (Duke Ellington, Bob Russell) - 4:43
  3. "Comes Love" (Lew Brown, Sam H. Stept, Charles Tobias) - 4:04
  4. "In the Still of the Night" (Cole Porter) - 5:08
  5. "Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear to Tread)" (Rube Bloom, Johnny Mercer) - 4:43
  6. "East of the Sun" (Brooks Bowman) - 6:36
  7. "Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart" (James F. Hanley) - 4:14
  8. "They Say It's Wonderful" (Irving Berlin) - 4:57
  9. "Don't Be That Way" (Benny Goodman, Mitchell Parish, Edgar Sampson) - 4:22
  10. "They All Laughed" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 4:01
  11. "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" (Bob Hilliard, David Mann) - 4:59
  12. "It's a Wonderful World" (Harold Adamson, Jan Savitt, Johnny Watson) - 4:21

Personnel[]

Performance
Production

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c Love Is...The Tender Trap at AllMusic
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Nielsen Business Media, Inc. (30 January 1999). Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. pp. 38–. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved 21 February 2013.
  3. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 814. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
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