The Boy Next Door

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Re-mastering by: Ray Staff at Air Mastering, Lyndhurst Hall, London The Boy Next Door is Staceys most personal album yet, dedicated to some of the artists who have enriched her life.

Staceys sixth album, was being hailed by music critics as a tour de force testimony to this is Jazz Journals Steve Voce: the new singers are taught rather than instinctive. Instinctive is the word at the bottom of the whole caboodle. Louis was instinctive, Ella was instinctive, Sinatra was instinctive and Teagarden was instinctive. You want instinctive today? Stacey Kent. She has marked out her own corner and there is nobody within miles of it. Her voice is instantly recognisableits in the subtle variations of timing and delivery that she establishes herself as one of the most tasteful and intelligent singers of the daythis is undoubtedly the best collection she has sung so farthe poise, the infinitesimal variations of timing and the natural sense of swing that comes with it are all what, if Miss Kent will excuse the expression, separates the men from the boysmake no mistake, this is a great album.

Personnel: Stacey Kent: vocals / Jim Tomlinson: saxophones, backing vocals /Colin Oxley: guitar/ David Newton: piano, keyboards, backing vocals/ Dave Chamberlain: bass/ Matt Home: drums / Curtis Schwartz: backing vocals Recorded engineered and mixed by Curtis Schwartz at Curtis Schwartz Studios, Ardingly, England February 18-22 2003 Produced by Jim Tomlinson