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Title: Did nothing for me
Review: I bought this CD based on an article by Stephen Holden in the 12/6/01 New York Times. The article was about the current state of cabaret singing. Holden said the album was "perhaps the most satisfying collection of orchestrated popular standards to be released since the heyday of Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald." I hope not, given how bad the album is. Before buying this album, buy some of the Sinatra albums with Riddle from the early 1950s and some of Fitzgerald's Songbook albums, if you haven't already.This is my first album by Krall. Her style/approach, at least on this album, did nothing for me. It was interesting to see that quite a few of the online reviewers hated this album, but liked her earlier albums. Yet, I found one online reviewer that thought this album was her best and that her other albums were bad.
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