Diana Krall - All for You: A Dedication to the Nat King Cole Trio
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Free Music Notes for All for You: A Dedication to the Nat King Cole Trio
Free Music Review: The album that alerted people to Diana's brilliance
Hit: 5 Stars
After buying and enjoying her next two albums (Love scenes and When I look in your eyes), this one came as a surprise to me - but what a pleasant surprise. Like Jeri Southern, a brilliant singer-pianist of an earlier generation, Diana began as a pianist but was obliged to sing as well in order to get work. On this album, recorded when Diana was still unknown, Diana's piano is very prominent. For those who enjoy hearing Diana singing love songs, there are plenty here, but there are upbeat songs to give more variation than you will find in the other albums I mentioned.Yet, this is all achieved with very few musicians. Russell Malone on guitar and Paul Keller on bass accompany Diana singing and playing piano. On most tracks, that's it. Steve Kroon plays percussion on Boulevard of broken dreams, while Benny Green plays piano on If I had you, leaving Diana (for that track only) to just sing.
You have to be good to deliver an album of such quality with so few musicians (especially without a drummer), but Diana and her musicians prove that it can be done. While I did not find this album as instantly appealing as her next two (perhaps because it was not what I expected), it is one that grows on me each time I play it.
Free Music Review: Refreshing and Sincere
Hit: 5 Stars
Diana did not show off her voice in this album. You would not experience the playfulness and flamboyancy saturating songs of Della Reese in this album. But the understated, almost shy quality of her voice and her treatment of the songs in this album made them that much more personable and moving. Her interpretations in this album never failed to carry an air of in-ward looking reflection as if she was lost in her own reminiscence of her love. Such interpretation presents her songs with a trusting atmosphere of sincerity and innocence and stripped of any flirtation that penetrated some many other female Jazz singers' songs. It almost feels like, at times, that she is carrying on a private conversation with you just as a friend or a neighbor would on your coach or at the kitchen table. The songs grow in you. After a couple listening, you cannot go without them. In this album, Diana also demonstrated the ease, mastery and confidence with which she performs the piano. She had FUN on her piano. The piano work in "I'm An Errand Girl For Rhythm" and "Hit That Jive Jack" would set the most wooden body on fire and start moving. No doubt this is the most refreshing Jazz album I have encountered.
Free Music Review: "Five will get you ten... " !
Hit: 5 Stars
Prior to this album, Diana Krall was not considered serious enough as a Jazz singer who could play a mean piano roll. She was a pretty girl, with a pretty voice, who would do standard jazz covers.
But this album changed all that, the trio in this record is brilliant and Diana's talent as a vocalist AND a piano player is showcased here in great abundance. It was good for her to choose a tribute album to Nat King Cole, and it results in a very good record and nice interpretations of Nat Cole's classics. It was difficult without a drummer as well
I don't have a large collection (50 to 60 CDs ), but this is one cd that i listened to so many items, i scratched it till it could not be played anymore.
For me the standout tracks are pretty much all of them
special mention though,
1. Gee baby...
2. Madness
3. If i had you
4. Frim Fram Sauce
5. jive jack..
Note: One of the other reviewers here has mentioned a good point, that her current label spends too much time on her image and promoting that aspect of hers. Her talent as a good musician should be developed more.
Free Music Review: In the spirit of Nat King Cole
Hit: 5 Stars
This is, without a doubt, one of the best albums I have ever heard. As good as the entire package sits - from the foldout wrapping to the wonderful easily accessible program notes to the sultry black and white silhouette inside - nothing compares to the music. And this music astounds in variety, depth and most of all, the sophistication and sheer quality of the recording. The band is superb, Krall, Keller, Malone (and Benny Green in "If I Had You").
What could be more satisfying than the lyrica "I'm no Errand Girl for Rhythm" that carries a sultriness and breathiness that others only hope for. The "Boulevard of Broken Dreams", a slow incredibly beautiful ballade, captures the essense of the entire set. The vocal trio on "Hit That Jive Jack" reminds one of the Manhatten Transfer. The gems continue to roll forth - the sensuous piano duet and lyrics of "You're Lookin At Me", the piano (and voice) of "Deed I Do" and last, but certainly not least, the quintessential show ending, "If I Had You".
Free Music Review: I give it six stars
Hit: 5 Stars
I saw Diana Krall on TV at the Newport Jazz Festival and loved her piano playing as well as singing. I bought this CD hoping it would be as good and it turns out to be a treasure. I can't think of another vocalist who sings these classics with more precision, subtlety and clarity. Every note is defined! It's amazing. I find myself savoring with each listening the stylistic nuances she's put into these standards. Her piano is also crisp and bluesy but it's her vocals that take me to another place. One other note: the performance I saw was in a windy outdoor setting and her long hair kept blowing in her face, prompting her to keep lifting her hand from the keyboard to brush it away. I wondered if it was annoying her and why she wasn't tieing her hair back. Since then I've figured out the reason: her looks are aggressively promoted by her label in the CD jacket photos and press pieces. I think this does her a disservice because an album like this one is so superb, her looks shouldn't be an issue at all.