jazz purists might have cried foul. The elected representative of a genre that crosses over into pop (Olare) and exports high quality music on territories barbarians? The transaction, rather than blasphemous, might seem utopian, but Diana Krall has managed to make that crossover that has enabled millions of people to bring a refined repertoire ranging from Bacharach to Porter, George and Ira Gershwin Brooks Bowman. In this live, the first for the Canadian artist (accompanied by her trio, and for some pieces, the Orchestre Symphonique Europeen), exceeds the Krall herself with a performance contrary to the slick studio recordings brings out also the heart and soul. The commercial success does not alter the real talent. So much so that Diana is more convincing when it is proposed as a jazz classic, freeing his mood swing on the keyboard, not when it produces slick and bloodless interpretations of standards such as The Look Of Love. The same cover of Just The Way You Are, Appendix of the CD, is an exercise in cold fusion between pop and jazz. Rossella Rambaldi
Adapted from D & M Music and Records No 660 of 09/01/2003
East of the Sun (And West Of The Moon)
Personnel: Diana Krall (vocals, piano, Fender Rhodes piano); Alan Broadbent (conductor); Michael Brecker (tenor saxophone); Ron Mounsey (keyboards); John Pisano (acoustic guitar); Anthony Wilson (guitar); John Clayton, Christian McBride (bass); Jeff Hamilton, Lewis Nash (drums); Paulinho Da Costa (percussion); The Orchestra Symphonique European.
Tracks:
1 I Love Being Here with You
2 Let's Fall In Love
3 'Deed I Do
4 The Look Of Love
5 East of the Sun (And West of the Moon)
6 I've Got You Under My Skin
7 Devil May Care
8 Maybe You'll Be There
9 'S Wonderful
10 Fly Me to the Moon
11 A Case of You
12 Just the Way You Are
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