Diana Krall - The Look Of Love
|
List Price: Our Price: $6.31 You Save: $12.67 (67%) Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Buy Used: from $1.24 (click here) Category: Music CD See more new music releases 
|
|---|
Canadian Music Store
Free Music Notes for The Look Of Love
Free Music Review: I Love The Orchestral Jazz Recordings
Hit: 5 Stars
The Look of Love by Diana Krall was the 2001 follow up to her 1999 breakthrough CD When I Look in Your Eyes. Whereas her former CD balanced songs backed by orchestra with those that were not, The Look of Love contains ten songs all featuring orchestral accompaniment. I found that this served as a link between the two CDs without resorting to a mere clone of what was previously successful. As you might expect The Look of Love is mellow across its entirety as string arrangements accent each song. However Claus Ogerman does an excellent job of keeping the orchestra on the periphery. This allows Krall's vocals and piano playing to take center stage. One of the things that I love about her singing is the emotional depth she conveys with her delivery on slower songs. This really comes through on "Cry Me A River", "Love Letters", and "Maybe You'll Be There". The orchestra is not the only backing that adds depth to The Look of Love. Russell Malone adds very pleasant jazz guitar on tracks such as "The Night We Called It A Day" and "Cry Me A River". When you add it all up, Diana Krall created a high quality orchestral jazz CD that is very relaxing. The Look of Love pairs well with a glass of wine after a trying day. Those who are looking for more traditional jazz may be disappointed in The Look of Love, but I enjoy the variety.
Download this: Cry Me A River
Free Music Review: Diana continues with a successful formula
Hit: 5 Stars
Following the success of her two previous albums, Love scenes and When I look in your eyes, Diana recorded another album in similar style. It doesn't quite make the same impact, but that may be due to raised expectations because this is still a high quality album.Diana has once again selected songs from the Great American Songbook to fill the album, though this time she also has included a sixties song, The look of love, which was a hit for Dusty Springfield, and a fifties song, Cry me a river, which was a hit for Julie London.
S'wonderful was originally a top five American hit in 1928 for the long-forgotten Frank Crumit. Love letters was a hit for its writer, Dick Haymes, in 1946, but only really became popular when Ketty Lester covered it in the sixties and had a huge international hit with it. Elvis Presley and Alison Moyet have also had huge hits with their covers. I remember you is another 1940's song that waited for the sixties to gain popularity, this time via a Frank Ifield cover.
Diana sings these songs as well as anybody, and also plays piano on all tracks. However, all tracks feature either the London symphony orchestra or the Los Angeles session orchestra, so Diana does not get the chance to show just what she can do with a piano.
This is a wonderful album that confirms Diana as the leading jazz lady in the world today.
Free Music Review: Diana's best album yet
Hit: 5 Stars
I've got three other Diana Krall albums, and while they are good, they do not take off into the stratosphere like this one does.The lush orchestral arrangements are the ideal setting for Diana's understated approach to singing. Her delicacy of phrasing somehow lands fully on the exact spot where the meaning of the lyric waits. It's subtle, but it's a subtlety that is brilliant.
The orchestral settings make her piano lines sound better than they ever have before, too. The Claus Ogerman arrangements are a huge step forward from the few string settings on a previous album (When I look in your eyes). Instead of "well, let's embellish the trio with a few strings," Claus give us "let's pull out all the stops to create a really gorgeous orchestral sound." But it's a quiet beauty, not an overpowering symphonic approach. It works beautifully for Diana's singing and playing.
There's only one song in this whole set that doesn't make me sit up and say Wow. ("Cry Me a River.") In my opinion her voice is not at its best with the blues. But you could hardly design a better voice to get every drop of meaning out of the standards.
The arrangements are great, the sound is wonderful, and the singing is sensational. This is not only my favorite Diana Krall album but one of my favorite albums of the last year.
Free Music Review: Diana's Best Yet.
Hit: 5 Stars
Canadian girl Diana Krall is at her best on this recording. I have to say I haven't liked some of her earlier work. In fact, last night I started to watch her on TV, performing with her combo in Paris. After ten minutes or so, I turned it off and put on "The Look of Love" CD.That's when it hit me why this CD was such a clever career move: She's already conquered the jazz market (witness all the reviewers who detest this disk but admit they have all her OTHER recordings), and now she's aiming to win over those of us who are not jazz fans.
And a lot of us hate jazz, with everyone frantically playing random notes in quick succession, with the only aim apparently being to play every note in the key EXCEPT those of the melody.
This new recording puts all that aside and concentrates on her gorgeously sensuous voice. Her sultry crooning, interwoven with the lush orchestrations (the fadeout of "Dancing In The Dark" is gorgeous) makes most other "seduction music" sound coarse and vulgar.
I noticed the criticism of her Spanish diction in "Besame Mucho" in an earlier review, which pointed to a Brazilian as a standard to be strived for. Since when is a Portuguese speaker a better example of how Spanish should be pronounced?
And to all those who obsess about her dress and shoes, I say: "Just close your eyes and listen!"
Free Music Review: CUDDLE BY THE FIRESIDE CD
Hit: 5 Stars
I usually will not add my review if a CD or book or video has already lots of reviews. I mean: what is left to say?I felt, however, after reading about 20 reviews of Diana Krall's new THE LOOK OF LOVE that I wanted to write what is obviously a minority point of view. I LOVED this album. It reminded me of the Frank Sinatra "theme" albums like "Only The Lonely" where all the songs on the disc were of one mood. Here is Krall singing one gorgeous love song after another, accompanying herself, as always, on the piano with a small jazz combo and backed by a studio orchestra and the London Symphony. The orchestrations are lush, the sound on the CD is terrific and Krall is singing like I've never heard her sing. Every number is tops and done in Krall's signature throaty, sexy, husky style.
I especially enjoyed Schwartz and Dietz's "Dancing in the Dark" which is, in my opinion, one of the finest pop songs of all time and which cannot be allowed to be forgotten. Since the horrors of September 11, alot of songs with first rate lyrics take on all new meanings and here is a song which says, "We're waltzing in the wonder of why we're here/Time hurries by/We're here and gone."
This is a cuddle by the fireside with someone you love album. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.