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Title: Krall in a crawl.................this ain't jazz?!
Review: For all of you (myself included) who really enjoyed Diana Krall's recordings to date, this is a major disappointment. After the marvelous "When I Look In Your Eyes," I looked forward to this release with great anticipation. However, the terrific ensemble band has been replaced by an orchestra. The playful and improvising singer that Krall was has become a mellow Astrud Gilberto clone. The music accompaniment sounds alike with every song in the CD, with its swelling strings, metronome-like percussions and right on the beat guitar chords. Even Krall's piano riffs sound polite and tame, as if they are afraid to disturb the steady click-clack rhythm of the drums. The whole CD sounds like Krall was lulled to a nap by the sleepwalking orchestration. This is Krall becoming mainstream, except it is plain boring elevator music. Diana, haven't you learned from John Denver?!
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