Time: 43:15
Size: 99.0 MB
Styles: Vocal jazz
Year: 2004
Art: Front
[4:25] 1. Close Your Eyes
[3:59] 2. It Could Happen To You
[4:43] 3. Baltimore Oriole
[8:05] 4. I've Never Been In Love Before
[3:59] 5. Stella By Starlight
[4:53] 6. Everything Happens To Me
[5:05] 7. I Got You Under My Skin
[2:53] 8. April In Paris
[5:09] 9. Cheek To Cheek
Singer Kelly Dickson is a recent Leeds College graduate who has made a rare debut for a newcomer in recording a launch disc with a classy US swing group that includes the fine saxophonist George Garzone. Subtle UK pianist Nikki Iles also appears, and the quality of the playing on this all-standards set is, unsurprisingly, impeccable.
Dickson is a thoughtful singer with a lustrous tone, and she handles the slow ballads maturely - notably I've Never Been in Love Before, alongside a deliciously Stan Getz-like Garzone. However, she sounds as though she needs to listen to more albums and bounce off a few more improvising partners before she gathers the resources to be relaxed and spontaneously free in open spaces. But she's a straightahead artist, with promise. ~John Fordham
Dickson is a thoughtful singer with a lustrous tone, and she handles the slow ballads maturely - notably I've Never Been in Love Before, alongside a deliciously Stan Getz-like Garzone. However, she sounds as though she needs to listen to more albums and bounce off a few more improvising partners before she gathers the resources to be relaxed and spontaneously free in open spaces. But she's a straightahead artist, with promise. ~John Fordham
Vocal Point
