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Diana Krall - Quiet Nights
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| Thephoenix |
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Jazz as the language of love is the theme of this hitmaker's 12th album, an achingly pretty tribute to the spirit, pace, and sound of the bossa nova. Although Krall goes directly to the source with three classics by Antonio Carlos Jobim including "The Boy [sic] from Ipanema," she also transforms Tin Pan Alley chestnuts like "You're My Thrill," where her hushed trumpet-like vocal phrasing and slow piano melody are a mesmerizing blend, and Burt Bacharach & Hal David's "Walk On By," with harmonized French horns carrying the tune. Claus Ogerman, who orchestrated pioneering '60s Brazilian bossa nova recordings as well as Sinatra sessions, brings authenticity and elegance to the string and horn arrangements. His charts emphasize minor keys, creating a moody emotional palette for the album. And, as usual, Krall's honeyed voice and carefully chiseled playing are as spare and perfect on every cut as her core quartet's accompaniment....full text |
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| Diana Krall's 12th album, Quiet Nights, is a comfort-food sequel to 2001's orchestrally drenched The Look of Love. But this reunion with arranger Claus Ogerman more fully indulges in the kind of bossa novas that he cooked up for Sinatra & Jobim in the '60s. If Ogerman's ''Girl From Ipanema'' self-homage is predictable, the other choices are inspired, including an unrecognizably melancholy ''I've Grown Accustomed to His Face.'' Ogerman might be the only arranger alive who can make an overstuffed orchestra sound so distant and wistful, and Krall, suddenly channeling Julie London, is the taciturn symphony's whispery match. B+...full text |
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| Nytimes |
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Prince has called his own shots for much of the last two decades, making plenty of odd, stubborn choices along the way. Here comes his latest: a three-disc album, self-released, with one disc devoted to a protégé, Bria Valente. Part nostalgia trip, part futurist manifesto, it’s available either at Target (for under $12) or through a subscription to lotusflow3r.com (for $77). The choice between thrift and indulgence reflects a familiar paradox for Prince, who presents himself on the album(s) as both a sensualist and a scold. It’s no mystery which side wins out in the end. There may be some satisfaction in hearing Prince rail against the Wall Street bailout in “Ol’ Skool Company” or attack empty fame (along with “all the haters on the Internet”) in “No More Candy 4 U.” But neither of those tunes — from “MPLSound,” the funkiest of the three discs — transcends its own hectoring. The put-downs aren’t half as good as the come-ons....full text |
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