Love Is...The Tender Trap (1999)

About this title: Stacey Kent has an attractive voice and a lightly swinging style. For Love Is...The Tender Trap -- her debut as a leader -- she is joined by tenor saxophonist Jim Tomlinson (who recalls Scott Hamilton and Stan Getz in spots), guitarist Colin Oxley, pianist David Newton, bassist David Green, and drummer Jeff Hamilton. Kent uplifts each of the familiar tunes slightly but does not add much of herself to the material. Certainly these versions of "I Didn't Know About You," "Comes Love," "East of the Sun," and "They All Laughed" would not qualify as definitive, or dwarf one's memory of earlier ...

Tracks:

1. The Tender Trap [VanHeusen/Cahn]
2. I Didn't Know About You [Ellington/Russell]
3. Comes Love [Brown/Tobias/Stept]
4. In the Still of the Night [Porter]
5. Fools Rush In [Bloom/Mercer]
6. East of the Sun [Bowman]
7. Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart [Hanley]
8. They Say It's Wonderful [Berlin]
9. Don't Be That Way [Sampson/Goodman/Par]
10. They All Laughed [Gershwin/gershwin]
11. In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning [Mann/Hilliard]
12. It's a Wonderful World [Watson/Savitt/Adams]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.