It was produced by Alan Bates and features her husband, tenor saxophonist Jim Tomlinson. Kent celebrated the release of Close your Eyes with a performance at the Birdland jazz club in New York City in September 1997.Close Your Eyes was the best-selling British jazz album of 1997.

In an interview with Billboard magazine to promote the album Kent said: "With this album, I was trying to give a mixture of things that people know and gems that got lost, songs that might get missed out of the great standard repertoire."

Scott Yanow, writing on Allmusic.com, gave the album three stars out of five. In his review Yanow said: "Stacey Kent has a very appealing voice, and her delivery is full of joy, enthusiasm, and subtle creativity....Jim Tomlinson contributes some tenor solos reminiscent in tone of Stan Getz, and pianist David Newton and guitarist Colin Oxley also get some solo space." Yanow concluded by calling Kent "a voice to look for in the future".

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