Breakfast on the Morning Tram
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Breakfast on the Morning Tram is an album by Anglo-American jazz singer Stacey Kent
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All arrangements by Jim Tomlinson.
Recorded at Curtis Schwartz Studios, England (March-April 2007).
Stacey Kent
Stacey Kent is a Grammy nominated American jazz singer.- Background :Kent attended Newark Academy in Livingston, New Jersey. Her paternal grandfather was Russian. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in New York, and moved to England after her graduation...
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Track listing
- "The Ice Hotel" (Jim Tomlinson, Kazuo IshiguroKazuo IshiguroKazuo Ishiguro OBE or ; born 8 November 1954) is a Japanese–English novelist. He was born in Nagasaki, Japan, and his family moved to England in 1960. Ishiguro obtained his Bachelor's degree from University of Kent in 1978 and his Master's from the University of East Anglia's creative writing...
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) - "I Wish I Could Go Travelling Again" (Jim Tomlinson, Kazuo Ishiguro)
- "So Many Stars" (Sérgio MendesSergio MendesSérgio Santos Mendes is a Brazilian musician. He has released over thirty-five albums, and plays bossa nova heavily crossed with jazz and funk....
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, - "Samba Saravah" (Baden PowellBaden Powell de AquinoBaden Powell de Aquino usually known simply as Baden Powell, was one of the greatest Brazilian guitarists. He explored the instrument to its utmost limits, playing it in a distinctive, unique manner, incorporating virtuoso classical techniques together with popular harmony and swing...
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, Pierre BarouhPierre BarouhPierre Barouh is a French writer-composer-singer best known for his work on Claude Lelouch's film A Man and a Woman both as actor, and as lyric writer/singer for Francis Lai's music for the film....
) - "Breakfast on the Morning Tram" (Jim Tomlinson, Kazuo Ishiguro)
- "Never Let Me Go" (Jay LivingstonJay LivingstonJay Livingston was an American composer and singer best known as half of a songwriting duo with Ray Evans that specialized in songs composed for films. Livingston wrote the music and Evans the lyrics....
, Ray EvansRay EvansRaymond Bernard Evans was an American songwriter. He was a partner in a composing and songwriting duo with Jay Livingston, known for the songs they composed for films...
) - "So Romantic" (Jim Tomlinson, Kazuo Ishiguro)
- "Hard Hearted HannahHard Hearted Hannah (The Vamp of Savannah)"Hard Hearted Hannah " is a popular song from Tin Pan Alley.The music was written by Milton Ager, the lyrics by Jack Yellen, Bob Bigelow, and Charles Bates...
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, Bob Bigelow, Charles Bates) - "La Saison des Pluies" (Serge Gainsbourg, Elek BacsikElek BacsikElek Bacsik was a Hungarian-born American jazz violinist and guitarist.Bacsik was born in Budapest, the son of Arpad Bacsik and Erzsebet Pocsi. He was of Romani ethnicity and studied violin at the Budapest Conservatory, but found his primary musical inspiration in bebop pioneers Dizzy Gillespie...
) - "What a Wonderful WorldWhat a Wonderful World"What a Wonderful World" is a song written by Bob Thiele and George David Weiss. It was first recorded by Louis Armstrong and released as a single in 1968. Thiele and Weiss were both prominent in the music world . Armstrong's recording was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999...
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Musicians
- Graham Harvey - piano and Fender bass
- John ParricelliJohn ParricelliJohn Parricelli is a jazz guitarist, appearing and recording mainly in the United Kingdom.Parricelli began his career as a guitarist in 1982 and was one of the founding members of the British big band Loose Tubes, with whom he recorded three albums...
- guitars - Dave Chamberlain - bass
- Matt Skelton - drums, percussion
- Jim Tomlinson - tenor sax, alto sax, flute
- Stacey Kent - voice
All arrangements by Jim Tomlinson.
Recorded at Curtis Schwartz Studios, England (March-April 2007).