Carol Kidd, Queen's Hall, Edinburgh

Star rating: *** Carol Kidd has always been a bit of an enigma. There are those - and you can count your reviewer among them - who believe that, with her talent, Kidd could have gone to the top of the world's jazz singing tree. If she'd wanted to. Singing to promote her new album, Dreamsville, her first after a lengthy lull following her partner's death, Kidd showed all the old magic - clear diction, telling phrasing, great pitch - and more.