Title: Supper club jazz at its best
Product review: This is supper club jazz at its best. Songs are carefully selected standards, unconfronting and familiar, arrangements are slick and professional but unadvanterous. An unashamedly commercial product aimed at both lovers of mainstream jazz and adult contemporary pop. What makes this otherwise unremarkable attempt remarkable is the talent of Diana Krall. Her husky vocals, clear piano delivery, and effortless phrasing are delights to savour. She shows no sign of being overwhelmed by the ghosts of the jazz greats who had covered these standards many times before. Her style is both uniquely individual and unthreateningly familiar. There is an effortless sexuality in this young woman's voice that recalls Holly Cole, although Diana is a better performer. Her debt to Nat King Cole is implicitly acknowledged. Every blatantly commercial effort should be that good.
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