Before She was famous ...

As the confirmation of a relevant stereotypes of music industry reads the genesis of this album: Young talented but yet unnamed jazz pianist-singer hits away the Canadian home in Zurich on enthusiastic local jazz musician who earns with taxi rides extra income; making arrangements for joint jam session, later a small club tour with band and last but not least a 2-day studio work. The subsequent search for a label for publication is idle sometime hopeless and abandoned shortly afterwards. The jazz musician makes a few years later the well beindruckendste career of their musical genre, can be their albums platinum and Grammy refine and crowded world concert halls of the largest and most prestigious category. The now almost 13 years old recordings suddenly no longer encounter such denial and later produced a short time as a CD.
Undoubtedly Diana Krall is the band member who makes the album "Heart Drops" at first sight interesting. But Vince Benedetti, the all-round jazz musician and former occasional taxi driver, remained faithful to the original musical idea and with the release of his material clearly exactly this band put character to the fore. Not Sony or Virgin smell to Diana Krall's previously well plunge oldest studio recordings, but the relatively small Swiss jazz label TCB drummer Peter Schmidlin.
For Krallisten "Heartdrops" an interesting mix of two contrasting aspects holds ready. Familiar and New Diana's voice was in 1990 an idea of ​​the now well-known phrasing with its charming Timbrebrüchen Although not quite as mature and nuanced are improvisation and intonation of her piano playing.. so sensitively embedded in and part of the band arrangements that again is very quickly realized how her already at that time was the interaction of a jazz formation in the blood. Today, it is among others precisely what world-class musicians in their field as Jeff Hamilton, John Clayton and Russel Malone particularly appreciate about her.
The new is clearly the genre. Mainstream Bebop is not necessarily what Diana Krall has written in her career as a trademark on the Brim. In addition, the timeless this music genre has, unlike Diana previously rehearsed repertoire that is especially since "All For You" associated with it, such as Dave Brubeck with the five-four time, still growing. But that's what makes this CD so interesting ,
The freshness of the material has not primarily to do with the pretty young Date of origin of the pieces that come down to two ("Detroit Blues" by I. Eckinger and "Your Destiny" by H. Vick) all written by Vince Benedetti. But with the joy of playing the Quintet and the nimbleness in Vince Benedetti arrangements. Especially "The News" and "Sunshine Express" (a duet with guitarist / vocalist Martien Oster) seem almost fluent playful and fun. Here is the same time its weakness in this captivating Plus Album. For what lacks sometimes the music is a depth that the immense talent Krall has particular naturally in their later material preferably chosen and expresses like no other interpreter of our time. And in this case brings the Bebop anyway less emphasis on the vocals with him, which is quite part of the overall arrangements again. At the time of developing a personal style certainly not the worst for already at that time and remains open in all genres of music Diana Krall. However, as we know today is also their strength, particularly in the emotional interpretation.
Vince Benedetti (trumpet, synth) had in 1989 a group of jazz musicians gathered around to make connection to the music scene after a break. Besides Martien Oster (guitar, vocals) belonged to Christoph Sprenger (bass) and Alberto Canonico (drums). The missing piano and lead vocals were added in the person of Diana Krall one day by chance. They rose in Zurich in his taxi and on the way to a gig we got talking. As Vince she experienced a few days later on the stage, he did not hesitate to bring them into his belt.
Heart Drops "is a must for Krall and Jazz fans alike. Seldom enough it has now the opportunity to be able to listen to the earliest recordings of great musicians in such high Ensemble quality. Diana repeatedly emphasized how important it was for their own development, long Time to draw a relatively unknown Bar pianist alone through the province you call it "paying dues" -. pay tribute - and indeed all the "cocktail musicians" are who know little attention, yet exceptionally talented in some cases. She knows what she's talking.