Music CD - Diana Krall: From This Moment On

	Music CD: From This Moment On Artist: Diana Krall List Price: $18.98 Our Price: $6.00 Your Save: $ 12.98 ( 68% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Verve
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Tracks: 1. It Could Happen to You 2. Isn’t This A Lovely Day 3. How Insensitive 4. Exactly Like You 5. From This Moment On 6. I was Doing All Right 7. Little Girl Blue 8. Day In Day Out 9. Willow Weep For Me 10. Come Dance With Me 11. You Can Depend On Me
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0602517037120 Label: Verve Manufacturer: Verve Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Verve Release Date: 2006-09-19 Studio: Verve
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: fine assortment of songs by Diana Krall Comment: From This Moment On is a fine Diana Krall album that again features her marvelous singing with great musical arrangements. The quality of the sound is excellent and the artwork is very tastefully done as well. The CD starts with Diana doing a sublime job on "It Could Happen To You;" she aces this easily and she never skips a beat! Her voice is in excellent form and she is able to successfully pull in her listeners with the heartfelt feeling she puts into this ballad. "Isn't This A Lovely Day" features Diana squarely front and center--right where she belongs! Diana's voice is clearly able to infuse this tune with great emotion and that impresses me greatly. The piano arrangement is also very elegant. I really like "Isn't This Is A Lovely Day." "How Insensitive" is a tender love ballad about a love that goes wrong when there are too many honest misunderstandings; Diana was born to sing these ballads and again she delves right into this tune to make it her own with a few tempo and key changes. Great! I predict that you'll like "How Insensitive" if you haven't already heard it. In addition, Diana also makes good on "Exactly Like You;" this upbeat number about a love and its joys really shines brighter than silver and gold combined when Diana Krall sings it. Diana performs this to perfection and the music never drowns her out--it all THAT good. "From This Moment On" from Kiss Me Kate proves that Diana can really belt out a tune and this melody gets strength from a faster than normal tempo. Diana Krall never sings a superfluous note and I'm sure you'll love every minute of this classic ballad. "Little Girl Blue" has a great treatment by the oboe (I think); and when Diana comes in this number takes flight even if it's not the most optimistic you'll ever hear. "Day In Day Out" is a classic pop vocal tune that gets the royal treatment from Diana Krall and she sings and swings brightly to make this number shine! The jazzy arrangement works very well for this tune and it's easily another major highlight of this CD. I love it! "Willow Weep For Me" has another elegant piano arrangement that enhances the natural beauty of this number; and when Diana comes in the number glows even brighter--she truly makes "Willow Weep For Me" her masterpiece with her uncanny sense of timing. The CD also ends well with Diana Krall performing a medley of "It Was A Beautiful Day In August" and "You Can Depend On Me." What a strong ending for Diana's album! Diana Krall fans will want this for their collections. I notice that some reviewers didn't like it but I still think the majority of Diana Krall fans will go for this CD. This is also a fine CD for people who like classic pop vocals. Customer Rating: Summary: From This Moment On Comment: As always, Diana Krall is seductively easy to listen to. Her piano playing is also wonderful as is her accompanying group. Customer Rating: Summary: She's the Best! Comment: If you are a Diana Krall fan you must add this CD to your collection. Diana continues to hold first place in female vocalists performing today, with her understated elegance of phrasing, her piano playing, and her knowing interpretation of the music she loves. Diana belongs in the company of the greats; Ella, Sarah, Rosemary, Carmen, Billie. As always, the choice of songs in this collection is excellent! Customer Rating: Summary: Diana Krall is always pleasant, but ... Comment: I would not rate this album as my favorite. Diana Krall Live in Paris is still at the top of my list, while this album, in my opinion, is not a must have. Customer Rating: Summary: Dianna at her best Comment: I love big band arrangements, and Dianna's departure from simply working with a jazz trio, and doing arrangements with a band backing her up makes some of the greatest new jazz I've heard in years. I hope she does more work like this. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: This album appears in the footsteps of 2004's The Girl in the Other Room but doesn't sound like a follow-up. Whereas The Girl saw the pianist-singer abandon the Great American Songbook for more personal pastures, From This Moment On sees her working out on standards done in traditional arrangements. Although the tracks here are by the likes of Cole Porter, Jimmy Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn, and the Gershwins, Krall sounds more at ease than ever before; perhaps digging deep inside on The Girl loosened her up. Backed by the Clayton/Hamilton Jazz Orchestra on seven tracks, Krall sings off the big band with ease. On the title track, she keeps up with a galloping bass and explosive brass arrangements and even ventures into scatting toward the end of the song. Her voice has also acquired a wonderfully worn texture in the past few years, and it works wonders on the ballads (just listen to "Isn't This a Lovely Day" and "Little Girl Blue" for instance). When standards are done like this, there's just nothing like 'em. --Elisabeth Vincentelli