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Diana Krall - From This Moment On
Music CD CoverArtist: Diana Krall Edition: Music CD CD Release Date: 2006-09-19 Music Label: Verve Soundtracks: - It Could Happen to You
- Isn't This A Lovely Day
- How Insensitive
- Exactly Like You
- From This Moment On
- I was Doing All Right
- Little Girl Blue
- Day In Day Out
- Willow Weep For Me
- Come Dance With Me
- You Can Depend On Me
Free Music Notes for From This Moment OnFree Music Review: excellent choice and a wonderful performance. I love it. Hit: 5 StarsThe disc is excellent as always and I highly recommend Dianna Krall to those jazz lovers as I am.
From This Moment On PosterFrom This Moment On is an 11-song collection that captures the Canadian-born sensation in full swing, in great company, and at the top of her game. It could also be called her strongest, most cohesive release to date. Krall--for the few still unknowing--is the 41-year old sensation whose cool, heavy-lidded vocals and strikingly sensitive piano-playing has helped her transcend barriers of genre to become a popular artist of the first order who has carved herself a permanent position at the top of the jazz charts. In songs, mood, and delivery, From This Moment On reveals Krall's personal ardor for that golden era of song-making, when Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, and (especially) Nat "King" Cole were in their prime. It's musical territory that Krall has often explored, but this album was certainly not a case of simply repeating past formulas: Krall's A-team of support--producer Tommy LiPuma, engineer Al Schmitt, and arranger/bandleader John Clayton--were on hand to ensure that inspiration was kept on an edge, unhindered by the studio environment. More Diana Krall  All for You: A Dedication to the Nat King Cole Trio |  Live in Paris |  Love Scenes |  The Girl in the Other Room |  Christmas Songs |  Stepping Out | This album appears in the footsteps of 2004's The Girl in the Other Room but doesn't sound like a follow-up. Whereas The Girl saw the pianist-singer abandon the Great American Songbook for more personal pastures, From This Moment On sees her working out on standards done in traditional arrangements. Although the tracks here are by the likes of Cole Porter, Jimmy Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn, and the Gershwins, Krall sounds more at ease than ever before; perhaps digging deep inside on The Girl loosened her up. Backed by the Clayton/Hamilton Jazz Orchestra on seven tracks, Krall sings off the big band with ease. On the title track, she keeps up with a galloping bass and explosive brass arrangements and even ventures into scatting toward the end of the song. Her voice has also acquired a wonderfully worn texture in the past few years, and it works wonders on the ballads (just listen to "Isn't This a Lovely Day" and "Little Girl Blue" for instance). When standards are done like this, there's just nothing like 'em. --Elisabeth Vincentelli
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