Diana Krall - Concentrated musical talent

In many ways a commercial success in jazz has always been critics suspect. Either the artist is terminated membership in the division without further ado, or the reasons for the breakdown strength can suddenly discover in everything else as the musical quality: Image, appearance, merchandising. However undertone is always: "Good jazz is not complacent but demanding, unpretentious, and thus can not bulk like." And he can do it yet.
Since 10 years, born in 1964 in Canada's British Columbia pianist and singer Diana Krall is on a steady upward facing career, the reasons for the blond jazz chanteuse himself with a lot of luck. Who, however, managed to live on one of their various appearances in Europe, will have been taken very quickly from their immense charisma but caught her enormous talent and musicality especially. Exactly unpretentious, Intuitive and not least Lascivious combines Diana Krall like no other interpreter of all living and past generation so elegant and soulful. My piano playing is virtuosic and easily, can be incredibly swinging therefore come and be sent in the background to hide, only to suck the drama of heartbreak from the marrow of the listener at the right moment and the whole volume that appears gives the instrument an effective improvisation distribute itself. Here your game but never overshadows the atmosphere of the songs and does not take itself too seriously, which is especially evident on their latest album, the platinum-finished "The Look Of Love".
Krall's voice, with its smoky, flattering timbre, it is able to put the pieces, which she interprets with concussive credibility convert into small sensation studies without leaving arise about great tragedy. She wanted to express feelings without the listener to take the chance to rediscover oneself in the songs individually. That just succeed, can be safely traced back to the choice of your material. Krall brings the jazz standards of the American Songbooks back to life and discovered their own versions of old classics of Nat King Cole, Peggy Lee and Sinatra. You always said that you can only sing about things that she could empathize with herself, and her musical's chosen profession has never been known in particular for political and socio-critical themes. Thus, to move most of your pieces between Love and ecstasy Love melancholy as they have always done it.
With "All For You" (GPR), a tribute to the legendary Nat King Cole Trio, she reached in 1996 their first Grammy nomination and propagates for incredible 70 weeks in the traditional jazz charts the USA. Incredibly pure comes this album therefore, every breath, every vibration of the bass strings are heard and the atmosphere is intimate and intense.