| Product Summary | | Label: Universal Music Group | | UPC: 00602517931107 | | Release Date: 3/31/2009 | | Buy.com Sku: 210758609 | | Item#: M4L72C | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 273 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Where Or When ~ Diana Krall |  | | 2. Too Marvelous For Words ~ Diana Krall | | | 3. I've Grown Accustomed To His Face ~ Diana Krall | | | 4. Boy From Ipanema, The ~ Diana Krall | | | 5. Walk On By ~ Diana Krall | | | 6. You're My Thrill ~ Diana Krall | | | 7. Este Seu Olhar ~ Diana Krall | | | 8. So Nice ~ Diana Krall | | | 9. Quiet Nights ~ Diana Krall | | | 10. Guess I'll Hange My Tears Out To Dry ~ Diana Krall | | | 11. How Can You Mend A Broken Heart ~ Diana Krall | | | 12. Everytime We Say Goodbye ~ Diana Krall | |
| | Some music is intended to paint a romantic scene -- a candlelit dinner, a walk along a moonlit beach. Quiet Nights -- Diana Krall's twelfth album -- ain't about that. Using Brazil as a musical point of reference, the award-winning pianist and singer is not suggesting a night out; she means to stay in. "It's not coy. It's not 'peel me a grape,' little girl stuff. I feel this album's very womanly -- like you're lying next to your lover in bed whispering this in their ear." She's not kidding. From Krall's refreshing version of "Where or When," to an utterly soul-stilling rendition of "You're My Thrill," the songs on Quiet Nights are disarming in their intimacy. Even those already familiar with the breathy vocals and rhythmic lilt in Krall's music -- and now there are millions -- will be taken aback by just how far the music pushes, unabashedly, into the realm of sweet surrender. "It's a sensual, downright erotic record and it's intended to be that way."
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Personnel: Joel Pargman, Eun Mee Ahn, David Ewart, Amy Wickman, Gil Romero, Katia Popov, Tammy Hatwan, Razdan Kutumjain, Alan Grunfeld, Helen Nightengale, Barbara Porter, Mari Tsumura, Sid Page, Bruce Dukov, Peter Kent, Yue Deng, Tiffiany Yi Hu, Darius Campo, Liane Mautner, Josephina Vergara, Caroline Campbell, Charlie Bisharat, Mario Diaz de Leon, Tereza Stanislav (violin); Matt Funes, Marlo Fisher, Dan Neufeld, Vickie Miskolczy, Kate Reddish, Todd Marda, Janet Lakatos, David F. Walther, Evan Wilson, Thomas Dienner (viola); Trevor Handy, Rudy Stein, Timothy Landauer, Dan Smith , Antony Cooke, Larry Corbett, Cecilia Tsan, Steve Richards , Vanessa Freebairn-Smith (cello); Steve Kujala, Geri Rotella, David Shostac, Heather Clark (alto flute, bass flute); Earl Dumler (oboe); Joseph Meyer , Todd Miller, Bill Lane, Rick Todd, Brad Warnaar (French horn); Doug Tornquist (tuba); Robert Zimmiti (vibraphone); Drew Dembowski, Reggie Hamilton, Sue Raney, Nico Carmine Abondolo, Ed Meares (bass guitar). | | Audio Mixer: Al Schmitt. | | Audio Remasterer: Doug Sax. | | Arranger: Claus Ogerman. | | Diana Krall's first studio outing since she and husband Elvis Costello became the proud parents of twin boys, 2009's QUIET NIGHTS finds the jazz singer/pianist turning in a serene and pleasantly subdued set. Krall breezes through a few bossa nova standards, most notably "The Girl from Ipanema" (here gender-reversed to "The Boy...") and the title track (originally "Corcovado"), both penned by the legendary Antonio Carlos Jobim. QUIET NIGHTS isn't solely a Brazilian-themed outing, however, as Krall also spends plenty of time in the comfortable realm of the Great American Songbook, offering up elegant orchestral renditions of "I've Grown Accustomed to His Face" and the Bacharach/David gem "Walk On By" that benefit from her supremely smoky vocals and graceful delivery. | | Bossa nova is not unfamiliar to Diana Krall, but 2009's Quiet Nights is her first record devoted to the gently swaying rhythm. Teaming up again with arranger Claus Ogerman, who last worked with Krall on 2001's The Look of Love and who also frequently collaborated with bossa nova godfather Antonio Carlos Jobim, Krall winds up with a mellow, lazy album that recalls the relaxed late-night sophistication of Jobim's duet album with Frank Sinatra, which Ogerman also happened to arrange and conduct. It's not just the sound, it's the songs: how '60s standards like Bacharach/David's "Walk on By" sit next to three Jobim tunes, a song by Marcos Valle ("So Nice"), and a few American Songbook standards placed at the beginning, the better to ease listeners into purer bossa nova at the end. Then again, they don't need much persuasion -- if any music could be called accessible it's this, with its warm intimacy and classic good taste. If anything, there may be a bit too much classic good taste on Quiet Nights -- there is no reinterpretation, only homage -- but that's not quite a problem because Krall knows enough to lay back, to never push, only to glide upon the gossamer surface. After all, some things are timeless for a reason; they need no updating, only replicating. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine |
Producer: Diana Krall; Tommy LiPuma |
Engineer: Steve Generick; Rick Fernandez; Dan Johnson; Al Schmitt |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 03/31/2009 | | Original Release Date : 2009 | | Catalog ID : B0012433-02 | | Label : Verve (USA) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00602517931107 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Down Beat (p.73)
- 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "Her great rhythm section is stalwart throughout....Claus Ogerman has provided luxurious orchestral arrangements that never call attention to themselves..."Record Collector (magazine)
(p.87)
- 4 stars out of 5 -- "The results are stunning, Krall's sultry voice evinces a deeper sensuality and soulfulness than ever before..." |
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| | Bio | | | Diana Krall Diana Krall is the first to credit the musical team she assembled -- her loyal quartet, ace producer Tommy LiPuma, engineer Al Schmitt plus legendary arranger Claus Ogerman -- for much of the seductive power on Quiet Nights. But there's a deeper, palpable sense of maturity that she brought to the recording as well. "Most of my singing and playing on the album is really just first or second takes. "You're My Thrill," was a second take -- "Too Marvelous," first take." "She's completely matured," says Tommy LiPuma, who should know, having first worked with Krall in 1994. "Even in the past few years. She approaches her vocal phrasing much more like an instrumentalist than a straight singer. It's in her reading of the lyrics, and the timbre of her voice, much more misty like Peggy Lee in her mature period." ("I didn't want to over sing -- I was drawing also from Julie London very strongly on this album," Krall confesses, noting that such influences are not always conscious on her part. "It just came out that way.") As such, the Brazilian focus of Krall's new album could not have been a more natural next step. "She's been very sympathetic to this music for a long time," notes LiPuma. "When we did The Look of Love, we were very much leaning in the bossa nova direction. Quiet Nights is really a celebration of this music. Diana sings three Brazilian classics, she rhythmically turned four standards into that style, and three ballads. So really there are ten songs on the album of which seven are just straight up bossa novas." It makes sense that Quiet Nights (also the English name of the bossa nova classic "Corcovado" that is the title track) draws much of its musical spirit from the land that puts the "carnal" into its annual Carnaval celebration. "I was inspired to do this record because of my trip last year to Brazil," says Krall, who returned to Rio de Janeiro to shoot a concert for a new DVD release. "Then I just kept going back and found that everywhere you go you still hear the sounds of Jobim and bossa nova."
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