Diana Krall "All for you" (1996) An Essential Album
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All for You is a tribute to the Nat "King" Cole Trio of the 1940s, when Cole performed as both a singer and a pianist. Krall, like her heroes Lena Horne and Carmen McRae, is also a singer-pianist, and she plays both roles on most of the songs here. She's able to link her singing to her piano playing in sympathetic ways and projects tremendous feeling through both. Like Cole in the '40s, Krall plays with a drummerless trio–here with guitarist Russell Malone and bassist Paul Keller. Their sense of intimate rapport is especially valuable on ballads such as "You Call It Madness" and "I'm Thru with Love," but also allows such uptempo tunes as "Hit That Jive Jack" to swing with surprising lightness. –Geoffrey Himes
All For You is Diana Krall's moving tribute to the great Nat King Cole.
(from the liner notes) Scene: A semi-dark recording studio in Manhattan. Time: Two-thirty in the afternoon – half past breakfast, if you live on Jazz Standard Time. Benny Green is sitting patiently at the Hamburg Steinway in the piano booth; Tommy LiPuma, the producer, is slumped in a chair in the main studio, fidgeting with his headphones. ("I like to be right in the middle of things. Too many distractions in the control room. Too much stuff to think about.") The shy-looking blonde in the corner booth, waiting for her cue to sing, is Diana Krall. This is her recording session, but you wouldn't know it. She acts as if she were the least important person in the room.
A disembodied voice slates the take: "O.K., we're rolling. If I Had You, Take five." Green tosses off four lean bars of intro; LiPuma rests his head in his hands, ready to listen. And all at once, the air is filled with a sound that is soft and warm and strangely knowing, floating out of the studio monitors like the smoke from a film-noir cigarette: I could show the world how to smile/I could be glad all of the while/I could change the gray skies to blue/If I had you… .
That's the blonde.
1 I'm An Errand Girl For Rhythm
2 Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You
3 You Call It Madness
4 Frim Fram Sauce
5 Boulevard Of Broken Dreams
6 Baby Baby All The Time
7 Hit That Jive Jack
8 You're Looking At Me
9 I'm Thru With Love
10 Deed I Do
11 A Blossom Fell
12 If I Had You
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