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Diana Krall: Too Marvelous for Words (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music March 28, 09I learned one thing on the playground basketball courts as a kid . . . if you keep on using the same moves over and o...
Diana Krall: How Insensitive (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music June 28, 08It's not easy to sing bossa nova. Diana Krall just makes it seem easy. Krall has tackled bossa before, demonstrati...
Diana Krall: Peel Me A Grape (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music June 04, 09Several years ago at a Diana Krall performance in Denver, a man in the audience yelled out the predictable “I Love Yo...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: DAVE FRISHBERG
Dave Frishberg once offered his original song “The Underdog” to Frank Sinatra. The song told the story of a gambler...
Diana Krall: It Could Happen to You (Rating: 86/100) posted in Music June 28, 08This is retro-Krall, with an Eisenhower-era flavor. Don't get me wrong, the 1950s were a great time for pop-vocal-pl...
Diana Krall: I've Got You Under My Skin (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 30, 07When the 1960s bossa nova craze finally expired, some of us—weary of off-key, ungrammatical Ipanema girls who "looked...
Diana Krall: I'm An Errand Girl for Rhythm (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music February 24, 08Fifty years after Nat King Cole's "I'm An Errand Boy for Rhythm" sped to its appointed rounds, Diana Krall's "I'm An ...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE TRACKS BY PIANO TRIOS WITH GUITAR AND BASS
Nat King...
Diana Krall: Have Yourself a Very Merry Little Christmas (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music December 01, 08Am I the only one who thinks the gifted Diana Krall has a tendency to come across as being somewhat depressed? I gues...
Diana Krall: If I Had You (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music May 24, 08Diana Krall lets Benny Green take over the keyboard for this performance, and they send the rest of the rhythm sectio...
Diana Krall: I've Got You Under My Skin (live in Paris) (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music December 08, 07What extraordinary patience and care Krall puts into her vocals. She never strains for effect, never gets caught up ...
Diana Krall: S'Wonderful (studio version, 2001) (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 18, 07I once thought that all the great bossa nova singers were from Brazil, but Krall has forced me to alter my opinion. ...
Diana Krall: I Was Doing Alright (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music February 13, 08I am not a big fan of retro jazz - playacting which finds jazz singers adopting the mannerisms (and often the attire ...
Diana Krall: A Case of You (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music December 05, 07No singer currently active is better than Krall at these oh-so-slow ballads, where she manages to expose every raw ne...
Mark Whitfield: Some Other Time (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music September 14, 09In the vast lexicon of jazz there are a few gems that improve with age and shine more brilliantly with each new inter...
Tony Bennett and Diana Krall on DVD posted in The Jazz.com Blog July 21, 09Thomas Cunniffe, an editor and regular contributor at jazz.com, reports on two DVDs focusing on jazz vocalists: Tony ...
Diana Krall at Carnegie Hall posted in The Jazz.com Blog June 27, 09Will Friedwald brings to his music criticism a deep knowledge of the American jazz and popular vocal tradition. His...
Krall, Diana posted in Encyclopedia March 20, 09Pianist and singer Diana Krall has demonstrated throughout her career that one can pay respect to past masters and st...
The State of Jazz Vocals Today (Part One) posted in Features and Interviews February 13, 08By Ted Gioia How do we assess the current state of jazz singing? Of course, you can’t judge a CD by its cove...
If There Were an American Idol Competition for Jazz Singers . . . posted in The Jazz.com Blog April 08, 09While the rest of the world is taking odds on who will win American Idol, jazz fans know where to look for the real...
Jazz Vocals in the New Millennium: Selected Listening posted in Features and Interviews February 13, 08NOTE: Here are links to track reviews of a representative sampling of jazz vocal performances released since the star...
Breaking Jazz News & Opinion: June 2009 posted in Miscellaneous Pages July 03, 09Anat Cohen plays Benny Goodman Josh Jackson reports from A Blog Supreme. 50,000 show ...
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