Product Description

Eighth studio album from highly regarded Canadian jazz pianist and singer follows 2004's 'The Girl In The Other Room'. Whilst that album, a collaboration with her husband Elvis Costello, saw her flirting with pop material, on this release she goes back to doing what she does best - playing the standards. As such, it sees classic material by the likes of Berlin, Jobim, Porter, Gershwin and Rodgers & Hart performed inher inimitable sultry, languorous style.

Track Listing

1. It Could Happen To You
2. Isn't This A Lovely Day
3. How Insensitive
4. Exactly Like You
5. From This Moment On
6. I Was Doing Alright
7. Little Girl Blue
8. Day In, Day Out
9. Willow Weep For Me
10. Come Dance With Me
11. You Can Depend On Me

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #18168 in Music
• Released on: 2006-09-11
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

The Lady is Back
I was afraid, that Diana Krall was travelling the downward slopes of becaming a syruppy pop singer.
I don't know who put her, temporarily, in that wrong path, but maybe it was Claus Oggerman. In the Paris Olympia Concert on DVD, despite all compliments, she is playing against Oggerman's orchestra and she shines with a small rythm section, even if her left hand cannot give us bass notes on the piano. With any good bass player, and sound engineer, it is easilly overcame.

Now, in this wonderfull album she devellopped the cooperation with great jazz musicians. Her voice has darkened a little and that is essential for a jazz singer (no pun intended).

Next time, even if it is still too early in what will be a long life, give us "Body and Soul", with Jack Clayton. Do it your way, do not try to copy Sarah Vaughan. Jack Clayton will play the darker deep notes, if and when he sees fit..

Diana Krall 'From this Moment On' CD
Diana Krall's latest release was issued on vinyl and cd, the CD containing an additional track of 5½ minutes so I would recommend the CD.
Great to see Diana has return to the small group with regrettably with orchestra background but most of all singing the standards she is better known for. Would have liked to have heard more from her regular backing instrumentalists though. As usual in great voice and very laid back on this album, but I felt the backing orchestra a sleight distraction. I much prefer her swinging efforts (Exactly Like You). `From this moment on' she has to complete with the orchestra that spoilt it for me but it's a matter of taste?
Diana excels as a small group artist proven with her rendition of `I was doing alright' with a nice guitar break from Anthony Wilson. Diana doesn't have to complete with anyone, she has her own style she uses to great affect on this album. But those orchestra breaks, oh brother, a big mistake?

Perfectly executed
I have been a Diana Krall fan for a few years now and in my opinion this is one of her best albums. If you are new to Diana's work then I heartily recommend this album (and "When I Look in Your Eyes) as being an excellent place to start your collection. If you are already a fan of hers then you will undoubtedly enjoy this album and should buy it right away!

The production quality, arrangement and performance of this album are all top notch and the song choices suit her voice perfectly. For those people who weren't as keen on her last album (which was material she had written largely in collaboration with her husband Elvis Costello) you will be pleased with her return to the 'standards' - classic songs given the Krall makeover. Even though she is essentially back to singing other people's songs it doesn't come across as unoriginal in the slightest.

And if you don't already have her christmas songs album then be sure to get it before the holidays begin, it's magical.