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Added on 2004: Review of her CD The Girl in the Other Room.
Added on July 28, 2001: Diana
Krall's concert at the Montreux Jazz Festival 2000.
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Diana Krall: When I Look In Your
Eyes
Audio CD, 1999, Universal/Impulse.
Sheet
music by Diana Krall.
Added in February 2000
At a small Jazz Festival in the mid 1990s, I had a chance
to listen to Canadian singer and pianist Diana Krall for the first time.
At that time, besides one song, her performance was not impressive, partly
awkward even. Within five years, she has been able to create, with her
means and limitations, her distinctive style - and that is what makes a
great artist. By the way, her grandmother and mother were singers, her
great-great-aunt was in vaudeville in NYC. On her new album, When I
Look In Your Eyes, she interprets great jazz classics from Irving Berlin
(Let's Face the Music and Dance and The Best Things for You)
and Cole Porter (I've Got You Under My Skin) to Michael Franks (Popsicle
Toes). Diana Krall has the astonishing capacity to give them a fresh
look, (almost) as if you never had heard them before. Her twelve tracks
range from songs with a bossanova-touch to classical ballads to tunes of
a certain lightness (East of the Sun and West of the Moon by Brooks
Bowman) which she interprets with ease. Diana Krall's style is at the same
time intense and cool - she is often compared to a star of a film noir.
She may well be one of the rare jazz musicians to get a Grammy Award.
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