Diana Krall Best Album

[Ezekiel Tulagan]

IfI only wanted one download of a Diana Krall album, which would be the best overall sounding album? Please let me know if it is in PCM or DSD, as well as where the best download site for the album would be.

The Girl in the Other Room is my favourite Diana Krall album too, but for pure sound quality, I think The Look of Love might have the edge. It's available from HDTracks in 24/96 or 24/192, as I recall. I haven't heard it in DSD.

We have a few of the studio albums, but as you can now see, I prefer listening to the source: Vinicius de Moraes, Joao and Astrud Gilberto, Jobim, and Dusty's 'The Look of Love' is second to none - all others are pale attempts.

If you are a listener, best sounding album means: Where do I get the most goosebumps, which album opens my heart widest, where do my eyes get wet? You already have the answer " Live in Paris ". "A case of you" is a track I have listened hundreds of times and will do even more so. To judge its not so good because not available as HiRes sounds ... strange to me.

Even as technician and some education in sound engineering I frankly dont give a damn for best sounding but less interesting records/files. Older members may recall the piano playing of Lincoln Mayorga on "Direct to Disc" Recordings. I prefer Friedrich Gulda on an upright bar piano recorded on cassette tape if available. And because Im in a good mood , I dont refer to the DSD catalogs available ...

With super star jazz/pop vocalists like Krall or Norah Jones, the recording producers tend to use the same mastering gimmicks as for pop records, with a lot of post-processing on vocals and acoustic instruments.

I don't remember which Diana Krall album it was, but I listed to one more recent recording some time ago, and was surprised by how unnatural the voice sounded, compared to the "pure" jazz vocalist recordings I was used to. No "in your room" feeling at all.

'The Girl in the Other Room' is the one I listen to most often too. Her DSD albums sound fantastic. This is really a good testing gear material. Musically - a bit too smooth and too sweet for my taste. I prefer Cassandra Wilson for example.

Her "New Moon Daughter" is a great album for audiophile tests after a gear change or tweak: the bass regions are quite rich in some tracks and can easily be muddies on less than stellar systems. I am thinking here of "Love is Blindness" and "Death Letter" if I remember correctly.

My girlfriend prefers DK to Cassandra though: she finds Cassandra's voice too deep for her liking, so I offered her plenty of DK albums and two Cassandra Wilson albums (plus numerous other jazzy albums from the likes of Melody Gardot and others).

Just a thanks to all of you thread posters - I don't know Ms. Krall at all but realized I could waste some time today by trading in Stones and other CDs for something else. When I couldn't find anything on my 10 page list of obscure music, I grabbed The Girl in the Other Next Room.

If you like Diana Krall, you should give Patricia Barber a listen. She's the 'high priestess' of Jazz IMO, and from an 'audiophile' perspective 'Modern Cool' blows everything recorded by Diana Krall out of the water (especially on BR-A).

Diana Krall is one of the best jazz artists of all time. List of the best Diana Krall albums, including pictures of the album covers when available. This Diana Krall discography is ranked from best to worst, so the top Diana Krall albums can be found at the top of the list. To make it easy for you, we haven't included Diana Krall singles, EPs, or compilations, so everything you see here should only be studio albums. If you think the greatest Diana Krall album isn't high enough on the list, then be sure to vote for it so it receives the credit it deserves. Make sure you don't just vote for critically acclaimed albums; if you have a favorite Diana Krall album, then vote it up, even if it's not necessarily the most popular.

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The album debuted at number 19 on the US Billboard 200, selling 30,000 copies in its first week.[1] Billboard ranked the album at number 33 on the magazine's Top Jazz Albums of the Decade.

Christopher Loudon of JazzTimes stated, "The title begs a rather obvious question: Do these 15 tracks, spanning 10 years and six albums*, truly represent the very best of Diana Krall? The answer is equally obvious: of course not. How could they?... Still, semantics aside, there's no denying this is, particularly for Krall neophytes, a lovely assemblage. And, yes, there's also value for those of us whose libraries already house the entire Krall canon."[7] Will Layman of PopMatters mentioned, "Now, we get The Very Best of Diana Krall which is professional, slick-as-a-trick, accomplished and too often dull. But maybe dull is how most people like their jazz."[6] Matt Collar of AllMusic wrote, "The Very Best of Diana Krall collects a nice cross-section of tracks the pianist/vocalist recorded beginning with her 1996 breakthrough album, All for You, and moving through to her 2006 effort From This Moment On. These are largely urbane and stylish recordings... If you're a fan of straight-ahead jazz with a heavy dash of romance and haven't checked out Krall's work, The Very Best is superb place to start."[2]

Last spring, I rushed out to buy the latest studio album from the reigning ingnue Queen of torchy jazz last spring, and then sat petulantly, like a spoiled child on the review. I have matured in my perspective, much as Diana Krall has matured in hers. For a decade now, the young blonde, as healthy as a Scandinavian skier, keened love songs in such a mournful, struggling way that she came to epitomize the melodic crooning of soulful female torches like Billie Holiday and her Diana Ross impersonation. Krall normally belts out classic jazz standards as smoothly as Scotch follows cigars. Yet her 2004 release, The Girl In The Other Room, charts new ground with her avant-garde songwriting husband, Elvis Costello.

No, there is none of his wonderful bopping rock hits on this album either. Those instant classics are still missing, from both of their works. So don't expect "Watching the Detectives" or "The Angels Want to Wear My Red Shoes" by either spouse. Darn.

Krall's first compilation with her husband is still not her best album. The 24-bit/96kHz remix of her first incredible album, Stepping Out, is still the best - though her live and studio releases since then come awfully close.

Costello's lyrics are on three-quarters of the album, while Krall dominates throughout with her incredible voice and dramatically crisp/clear jazz piano accompaniment. Here though, she departs from her standard repertoire for the first time. Not boldly on his songs, but safely. On Costello's work, which is supposed to be more personal and important to Krall, her vocal and piano arrangements strangely don't seem as assured. His songs are more reflective perhaps, but also more sedate. His lyrics aren't as compelling as the revisited ones on the album, including "Temptations" by Tom Waits, which is now a smooth jazz station standard and a Krall single. With other people's work, like Joni Mitchell's "Black Crows," Krall seems to know exactly where she wants to go and she "boldly goes where no man has gone before."

In search of love and music

My whole life has been

Illumination

Corruption

Diving, diving, diving, diving.

Diving down to pick up on every shiny thing

Just like that black crow flying

In a blue sky

On the other songs, Krall etches elegant, refined jazz renditions from Tom Waits, Bonnie Raitt and Joni Mitchell. She interprets Waits' "Temptation" as a sultry jazz tune rather than a jazzy pop song. On all of the songs, she interposes four of my favorite jazz instruments - the assured female vocalist, piano, percussion and acoustic bass - with gentle guitar riffs. This CD still is a jazz CD, but Krall explores nuances of her singing that are fresh and interesting.

Costello's material is dark and full of shadows, underscored by the loss of Krall's mother. Krall evokes a hip vernacular of early beat jazz. The songs are neither sentimental, nor sophomoric. The eloquence of Krall's wonderfully sophisticated melodic architecture and rhythmic parlance expresses longing, death and acceptance. Costello's work shows that Krall is "The Girl In The Other Room." An incomparable jazz artist with a sad personal and folksy/pop sides.

The album is not a bold new direction by a talented artist, but a safe departure, extending her solid torchy jazz tradition. Hopefully, she will alternate these explorations with her husband with more of her instant jazz classics.

Krall is the reigning Queen and sings like a goddess. Krall fans will do doubt eat this CD like caviar -- an acquired taste. Lovers of strong but not flighty female vocalists, like Patricia Barber and Cassandra Wilson, will love her assured voice.

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