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Artist
Melissa Stott
12+ albums
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Melissa Stott is a UK-born jazz singer-songwriter of English and Singapore-Chinese descent. Her songwriting style has been described as mainstream jazz with more contemporary flavours, and her music has been released on the FeetFirst Records label, by producer Leo Feigin of UK avant-garde label Leo Records. Her influences include Bill Evans, Anita O'Day, The Carpenters, Luis Bacalov, Clifford Brown, Red Garland, Sibelius, Debussy, Cole Porter, Billie Holiday, Billy Strayhorn and Tchaikovsky with lots of other musical styles in between. Melissa Stott’s debut album Why Now (2005) was entirely self-penned and was recorded at Artesuono Recording Studio in Udine, Italy, by Stefano Amerio, and featured a group of Italian musicians. There was also a guest appearance by Serbian trumpet and flugelhorn player Stjepko “Steve” Gut on several tracks. Pieces from the album were broadcast on stations in Europe, USA, Canada and Mexico, and received very favourable reviews. The pieces which received most radio play were Ella, Mami’s Kitchen and Dreaming. The Picture (2007) is the title of the second album composed of 13 original pieces by Melissa Stott. Chris Parker, in the liner notes, states that “her material, dealing as it does with thoroughly contemporary emotional concerns, communicates with twenty-first-century audiences with all the ease of popular music.” The album features the original group with the addition of tenor sax and violin. She has been described as a "conversational,