{"id":34200,"date":"2014-05-02T02:55:30","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T02:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eoisabi.org\/?p=34200"},"modified":"2026-03-24T18:23:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T18:23:47","slug":"diana-krall-melody-gardot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/?p=34200","title":{"rendered":"Diana Krall + Emilie-Claire Barlow"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Deeply rooted in the jazz tradition, Diana Krall<\/strong>‘s\u00a0repertoire is not much different than what Ella or Sarah were singing a generation ago. This may sound like the safe choice, but it isn’t.<\/p>\n

A thousand vocalists have ended up on the boulevard of broken dreams by trying to resuscitate \u00ab‘S Wonderful\u00bb<\/em> or \u00abLet’s Fall in Love.\u00bb<\/em> These songs have been so picked over that there is hardly any meat left on their bones. But Krall avoids all the traps here. She doesn’t lapse into imitation of her predecessors. She doesn’t try to out-scat Ella or hit higher notes than Sarah. She doesn’t get cutesy or treat the song with museum-like reverence. Instead she does just what we want her to do\u2014namely probe the emotional insides of these melodies. She lives the song, and does it with such honesty and immediacy, that we forget whether the song was written in 1938 or 1968. It sounds like she composed it on the piano this afternoon before showing up at the gig.<\/p>\n

\u00a4 \u00a0\u00a0Diana Krall<\/span><\/a>\u2190<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n
\u2207\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0‘I Love Being Here With You’\u00a0 \u21d3\u00a0 [Rio_2008]<\/strong><\/h6>\n

Anthony Wilson + John Clayton + Jeff Hamilton <\/strong>(drums!) + Paulinho da Costa\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n