What is the name of the album by the wife of saxophonist Jim Tomlinson which includes four songs with lyrics written by Kazuo Ishiguro?
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Breakfast on the Morning Tram Breakfast on the Morning Tram is an album by American jazz singer Stacey Kent that was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album in 2009. It was her first album for Blue Note Records. The album features four songs with lyrics written by novelist Kazuo Ishiguro.
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Stacey Kent Stacey Kent is an American jazz singer. She is married to saxophonist Jim Tomlinson.
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That's Where It's At That's Where It's At is the sixth jazz album by saxophonist Stanley Turrentine, recorded by Rudy Van Gelder for Blue Note Records. It features the first (of only two) collaborations between Stanley Turrentine and pianist Les McCann who would only reunite one more time in 1984 for two tracks on Turrentine's "Straight Ahead". Rounding up the rhythm section is Herbie Lewis on bass and Otis "Candy" Finch on drums. Lewis was in Les McCann's group The Les McCann Ltd. and Finch was in organist Shirley Scott's band who was at the time married to Turrentine. McCann wrote four of the tracks, Turrentine one, and Turrentine's brother, Tommy Turrentine, two. A Rudy Van Gelder remastered edition of the album was released on CD in 2005 with an alternate take of "Light Blue" as a bonus track.
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Michi Madness Michi Madness (stylized as "MiChi MadNesS") is the first album released by British-Japanese musician MiChi, released on 27 June 2008. It was released on Mmm Records, an independent record label. The album includes four cover songs originally by The Spice Girls, Queen, Des'ree, and Fergie. "Surrender" was featured on a dance compilation album titled "Freedom-House Mode Collection". The album peaked at number 142 on the Japanese Oricon charts and had a chart run of six weeks.
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Naima's Love Song Naima's Love Song is an album by pianist John Hicks's Quartet featuring Bobby Watson recorded in 1988 and released on the Japanese DIW label.
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Privilege (Ivor Cutler album) Privilege is an album by Ivor Cutler, originally released in 1983 on Rough Trade Records. It was produced by David Toop and Steve Beresford, both of whom are better known for their work in improvisational music and, unlike Cutler's 1970s recordings, it sees Cutler's vocals accompanied by a wide range of musical instruments including keyboards, banjo, euphonium and alto flute. The LP is co-credited to Linda Hirst, who recites a number of poems and provides backing vocals on some of the tracks. The closing track, "Women of the World", was released as a single and became a minor hit on the UK Indie Chart. It has since been covered by Jim O'Rourke, on his 1999 album "Eureka", and YACHT, on their 2007 album "I Believe In You. Your Magic Is Real."
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In the Court of the Crimson Queen In the Court of the Crimson Queen is the fifteenth studio album by British singer Toyah. It was released on 15 September 2008 by Willow Recordings Ltd. The album title (a reference to King Crimson's debut album, "In the Court of the Crimson King") was suggested by producer/co-author Simon Darlow and was endorsed by King Crimson mainstay and Toyah's husband Robert Fripp. "At last my husband's done something for my career!", Toyah commented.
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Easy Listening (album) Easy Listening (イージーリスニング , Ījī Risenīngu ) is the first mini-album released by Japanese singer Maaya Sakamoto with music composed by Yoko Kanno. The songs "afternoon repose" and "another grey day in the big blue world" are sung in English.
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Tokyo Joe (Bryan Ferry song) Tokyo Joe is a song by Bryan Ferry, the lead vocalist for Roxy Music. It was released as the second single from his fourth solo album and the first consisting entirely of original songs, In Your Mind, in May 1977, being Ferry's eleventh single. The single features the non-album track, "She's Leaving Home" as the B-side, which was originally recorded for The Beatles tribute album "All This and World War II".
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Graceful 4 Graceful 4 is The Grace's first Japanese album, released on November 14, 2007. The title track, "One More Time, OK?", is a translated version of the song "한번 더, OK? " from "Chun Sang Ji Hee's The Grace" (Tenjochiki) first Korean album. Tenjochiki's first Japanese studio album includes the 5 singles released from 2006 January in Japan, and the album has a total of 14 tracks. The album sold a total of 1,622 copies in Japan, peaking at No. 103 in the Oricon charts.
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Ai no Uta (Words of Love) "Ai no Uta (Words of Love)" (Japanese: 愛の詩 (words of love); , "Love Poem (words of love)) is a song recorded by Japanese recording artist Haruka Chisuga, taken from her debut studio album "Try!" (2016). It was released as the fifth single from the album by Victor Entertainment and their subsidiary label Flying Dog on April 27, 2016. The lyrics were written by Yamada Toshiaki and the music was composed and produced by Swedish electronic dance musician Rasmus Faber. Musically, "Ai no Uta (Words of Love)" is an electronic dance song, influenced by four on the floor that features synthesizers and string arrangements in its instrumentation.
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Alice Coltrane Alice Coltrane ("née" McLeod, August 27, 1937 – January 12, 2007), also known by her adopted Sanskrit name Turiyasangitananda or Turiya Alice Coltrane, was an American jazz pianist, organist, harpist, singer, composer, swamini, and the second wife of jazz saxophonist and composer John Coltrane. One of the few harpists in the history of jazz, she recorded many albums as a bandleader, beginning in the late 1960s and early 1970s for Impulse! Records and Universal Distribution.
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You Gotta Love the Life You Gotta Love The Life is an album by the Grammy Award winning singer and songwriter Melissa Manchester in 2015. Her 20th studio album, and her first since "When I Look Down That Road" (2004), the fourteen-track album is primarily written by Manchester, with four tracks being covers of well-known standards, and includes a longer version of the 2013, single release of, "Be My Baby", celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of The Ronettes release of the song.
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It's Gonna Work Out Fine (album) It's Gonna Work Out Fine is the fourth studio album released by Ike & Tina Turner on the Sue Records label and the fifth associated Ike & Tina project (including the instrumental album, "Dance with Ike & Tina Turner & The Kings of Rhythm") released altogether during their Sue Records tenure. It's notable for their title track, also released on the "Dynamite!" album. The Turners left Sue Records in 1964 in search of better deals. The album also features Tina Turner's first lyrical composition, "Tinaroo". The cover of the album features a young Tina Turner solely on the cover without her partner.
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Sukiyaki and Other Japanese Hits Sukiyaki and Other Japanese Hits is an album by Kyu Sakamoto released in 1963 in the U.S. by Capitol Records. All of the songs on the album are sung in Japanese and feature the title track, a #1 hit in the U.S. for three weeks in 1963, and peaking at #6 in the UK when issued by EMI on its HMV label. The 'b'-side, "Anoko No Namaewa Nantenkana", and a cover of "Good Timin'", a hit in 1960 for R&B singer Jimmy Jones, in both the US and the UK.
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Uncontrolled (album) Uncontrolled is the 10th studio album by Japanese pop and R&B musician Namie Amuro, released on June 27, 2012. The album was released before her 20th anniversary concerts — one in Okinawa in September, and seven across Japan in November and December 2012. The album consists mostly of songs sung in Japanese, however this was the first album of Amuro's to feature several songs sung entirely in English.
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Love Is (Michi EP) Love Is is the first EP released by British-Japanese musician MiChi, released on 22 December 2010. It is her first non-single release since her debut album "Up to You" was released in 2009. All four of the songs featured on the EP are used in various commercials and advertisements. The title song was sent to Japanese radio stations as the first single on 19 November, with the music video premiering in early December. It also contains a cover of The Offspring's "Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)", MiChi's first cover song since 2009's "Kiss Kiss xxx". This makes it her seventh cover song, following her cover versions of songs by The Spice Girls, Nirvana, Avril Lavigne, Queen, Des'ree and Fergie.
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Thunder and Lightning (Chi Coltrane song) "Thunder and Lightning" is a 1972 song by Chi Coltrane. It was the first release from her eponymous debut album. The song reached number 17 on the US "Billboard" Hot 100 and number 12 on "Cash Box" and "Record World". It also reached number 18 on the Canadian "RPM" magazine singles chart and number four on the German hit list.
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Sports (Tokyo Jihen album) Sports (スポーツ , Supōtsu ) is the fourth studio album by Japanese rock band Tokyo Jihen, released on February 24, 2010 in Japan through EMI Music Japan and Virgin Music. The album was produced by the band and Japanese recording engineer Uni Inoue.
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Kagayaku Hito "Kagayaku Hito (輝く人 , Shining One ) " is the tenth single by Japanese singer Angela Aki, released on April 14, 2010. It varies in style from her previous singles, being the first to feature Aki playing guitar, rather than her normal prominent piano arrangements.
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Kōsa ni Fukarete "Kōsa ni Fukarete" is a song composed by the Japanese record producer/bassist Tsugutoshi Gotō. It was recorded by pop icon Shizuka Kudō and released as her eighth solo single, providing her with sixth chart-topper.
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Welcome (Santana album) Welcome is the fifth studio album by Santana, released in 1973. It followed the jazz-fusion formula that the preceding "Caravanserai" had inaugurated, but with an expanded and different lineup this time. Gregg Rolie had left the band along with Neal Schon to form Journey, and they were replaced by Tom Coster, Richard Kermode and Leon Thomas, along with guest John McLaughlin, who had collaborated with Carlos Santana on "Love Devotion Surrender". "Welcome" also featured John Coltrane's widow, Alice, as a pianist on the album's opening track, "Going Home" and Flora Purim (the wife of Airto Moreira) on vocals. This album was far more experimental than the first four albums, and "Welcome" did not produce any hit singles.