Breakfast on the Morning Tram
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Breakfast on the Morning Tram is an album by Anglo-American jazz singer Stacey Kent
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

  1. "The Ice Hotel" (Jim Tomlinson, Kazuo Ishiguro
    Kazuo Ishiguro
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  2. "Landslide
    Landslide (song)
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    " (Stevie Nicks
    Stevie Nicks
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  3. "Ces Petits Riens" (Serge Gainsbourg
    Serge Gainsbourg
    Serge Gainsbourg, born Lucien Ginsburg was a French singer-songwriter, actor and director. Gainsbourg's extremely varied musical style and individuality make him difficult to categorize...

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  4. "I Wish I Could Go Travelling Again" (Jim Tomlinson, Kazuo Ishiguro)
  5. "So Many Stars" (Sérgio Mendes
    Sergio Mendes
    Sérgio Santos Mendes is a Brazilian musician. He has released over thirty-five albums, and plays bossa nova heavily crossed with jazz and funk....

    , Alan Bergman
    Alan Bergman
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    , Alan Bergman
    Alan Bergman
    Alan Bergman is an American lyricist and songwriter.-Life & career:Born in Brooklyn, New York, he studied at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and UCLA. His involvement in the entertainment industry began in the early 1950s as a director of children's television shows...

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  6. "Samba Saravah" (Baden Powell
    Baden Powell de Aquino
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    }, (Vinicius de Moraes
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    , Pierre Barouh
    Pierre Barouh
    Pierre 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....

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  7. "Breakfast on the Morning Tram" (Jim Tomlinson, Kazuo Ishiguro)
  8. "Never Let Me Go" (Jay Livingston
    Jay Livingston
    Jay 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 Evans
    Ray Evans
    Raymond 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...

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  9. "So Romantic" (Jim Tomlinson, Kazuo Ishiguro)
  10. "Hard Hearted Hannah
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    , Jack Yellen
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    , Bob Bigelow, Charles Bates)
  11. "La Saison des Pluies" (Serge Gainsbourg, Elek Bacsik
    Elek Bacsik
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  12. "What a Wonderful World
    What a Wonderful World
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    " (Bob Thiele
    Bob Thiele
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    , George David Weiss
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Musicians

  • Graham Harvey - piano and Fender bass
  • John Parricelli
    John Parricelli
    John 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).
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