Track List:
01. It Could Happen to You
02. Isn’t This A Lovely Day
03. How Insensitive
04. Exactly Like You
05. From This Moment On
06. I was Doing All Right
07. Little Girl Blue
08. Day In Day Out
09. Willow Weep For Me
10. Come Dance With Me
11. You Can Depend On Me
Review
Krall's big strengths when she first emerged were a musicality about lyrics that savoured the weight of every syllable, an instrumentalist's timing and ideas (though her piano-playing isn't up to her singing, it's been a crucial complement to it) and a delicate intimacy that made every member of an audience feel they were getting her personal attention. Success has swelled the budgets, and risked overwhelming her fragile eloquence and jazz instincts. But though this set drops into the dinner-jazz and easy-listening boxes, there's enough subtle orchestral arrangement and sharp horn soloing to engage the big-band buffs, plenty of Krall at her smokiest, and three crisp tracks just for quartet.A breezy version of Day In and Day Out gets a lively Count Basie treatment, piano tinkling over chugging guitar. Krall's affection for lyrics add new turns to Exactly Like You and I Was Doing Alright, and her oddly frank, confiding whisper makes Little Girl Blue the best thing on the album. An eerie brass fanfare (suggesting the approach of Gil Evans' and Miles Davis's Porgy and Bess) turns out to be the overture to Willow Weep for Me - a beautiful arrangement imparting a mysterious and faintly sinister quality to the song. From This Moment On is full of classy execution, but it's familiar territory for Krall and her fans.
From This Moment On is an 11-song collection that captures the Canadian-born sensation in full swing, in great company, and at the top of her game. It could also be called her strongest, most cohesive release to date. Krall--for the few still unknowing--is the 41-year old sensation whose cool, heavy-lidded vocals and strikingly sensitive piano-playing has helped her transcend barriers of genre to become a popular artist of the first order who has carved herself a permanent position at the top of the jazz charts. In songs, mood, and delivery, From This Moment On reveals Krall's personal ardor for that golden era of song-making, when Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, and (especially) Nat "King" Cole were in their prime. It's musical territory that Krall has often explored, but this album was certainly not a case of simply repeating past formulas: Krall's A-team of support--producer Tommy LiPuma, engineer Al Schmitt, and arranger/bandleader John Clayton--were on hand to ensure that inspiration was kept on an edge, unhindered by the studio environment.
Diana Krall завершила работу над новой пластинкой "From This Moment On". Релиз альбома запланирован на 19 сентября под лейблом Verve. Все 11 треков новой пластинки записаны под аккомпанемент оркестра Clayton/Hamilton Jazz, в их число вошли "How Insensitive", "Come Dance With Me" и "It Could Happen to You". Продюсированием "From This Moment On" Krall занялась сама вместе с давним партнером Tommy LiPuma, записавшим с ней пластинку 1994 года "Only Trust Your Heart".
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