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Stacey Kent - Tenderly on VOA: Jazz America

On the next JAZZ AMERICA program from the Voice of America, there are so many reasons why Stacey Kent and Roberto Menescal should never have met, let alone formed a friendship based on mutual admiration and shared artistic vision, that the very existence of this album, Tenderly (OKeh) is close to miraculous.

Stacey Kent – for whom jazz and the "Great American Songbook" formed the musical wallpaper of her East Coast adolescence – viewed Brazilian music with much the same fascination as that with which Menescal had viewed American jazz a generation earlier. Each went on to become an important figure in their own musical sphere. Roberto Menescal began his musical journey in the 1950s as a student in Rio de Janeiro. As an admirer of the exotic sounds of American jazz and popular song, one of his early idols was the jazz guitarist Barney Kessel.

Voice of America, heard by an estimated audience of 134 million listeners each weekend on the entertainment service VOA1 and on the worldwide VOA service via shortwave transmission. 

Stacey Kent's 'no moon at all' from (tenderly) will air on this week's VOA: Jazz America 

Here's a list of the full show  - JAZZ AMERICA...SHOW #1727…13-14 FEBRUARY 2016 

             HOUR 1

JAVON JACKSON…love & happiness (pleasant valley) 

SARAH VAUGHN…if this isn't love (live @ Newport jazz festival 1957) 

* Lisa Hilton Interview 

LISA HILTON…whirlwind (nocturnal) 

DR. LONNIE SMITH…African suite (evolution) 

KENNY BURRELL…salty papa (the road to love) 

DIANNE REEVES…love for sale (in the moment-live in concert) 

* Randy Brecker Interview 

RANDY BRECKER…I've got a bag of my own (randypop) 

LARRY CORYELL & 11TH HOUSE…adam smasher (introducing the eleventh house) 

              HOUR TWO... 

JAZZ AMERICA...SHOW #1728…13-14 FEBRUARY 2016 

MAYNARD FERGUSON…the lady's in love (dues) 

STACEY KENT…no moon at all (tenderly) 

* Martin Horntveth (Jaga Jazzist)Interview 

JAGA JAZZIST…prugen (starfire) 

McCOY TYNER…passion dance (the real mccoy-1967) 

BILLIE HOLIDAY…god bless the child (1941) 

HANK CRAWFORD…don't you worry ‘bout a thing (don't you worry ‘bout a thing) 

* Christian McBride Interview 

CHRISTIAN McBRIDE TRIO…carwash (live at the village vanguard) 

HERBIE HANCOCK…love is stronger than pride (the new standard)

*Hear Jazz America live online in the Eastern time zone on Saturday from Midnight-2 AM (That's 10 PM-Midnight, Friday night, Pacific time) and Sunday from 9-11 AM Eastern time (That's 6-9 AM Pacific). Listen live at http://www.VOAMusicMix.Net 

*Listen on Shortwave:  1300 GMT/UTC Saturdays and Sundays
Africa - 4.95 6.08 13.57 15.58 17.895 mhz
Middle East and Europe - 12.005 15.53 mhz
Asia and Pacific - 7.43 7.575 9.7 12.15 mhz
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