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 | Title : All for You: A Dedication to the Nat King Cole Trio
Author : Diana Krall
Release Date : 19960312
Binding : Audio CD
Regular Price : $18.98
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Editorial Reviews :
All for You is a tribute to the Nat 'King' Cole Trio of the 1940s, when Cole performed as both a singer and a pianist. Krall, like her heroes Lena Horne and Carmen McRae, is also a singer-pianist, and she plays both roles on most of the songs here. She's able to link her singing to her piano playing in sympathetic ways and projects tremendous feeling through both. Like Cole in the '40s, Krall plays with a drummerless trio--here with guitarist Russell Malone and bassist Paul Keller. Their sense of intimate rapport is especially valuable on ballads such as 'You Call It Madness' and 'I'm Thru with Love,' but also allows such uptempo tunes as 'Hit That Jive Jack' to swing with surprising lightness.
Buyer Reviews :
I'm dead-up, I really can't believe how modest she is when it comes to the talent she possesses. I almost admire that quality about her. That she could make it all sound so effortless, but still be so humble in her every word. Put Diana Krall behind a piano along with her bassist Paul Keller and guitarist Russell Malone and she is somethin' else. But then give her a set list of twelve standards from Nat King Cole during his much-overlooked days with the Trio in the 1940s, and she is gonna give you what you're looking for and more. This is one of the best tribute albums I've ever heard, and instead of directly copying Cole's style, pianistically and vocally, she adopts the tunes on her own terms and allows the music and her influence to speak for itself. Her playing is refined and mannered, her vocals, 'specially on the ballads are romantic and elegant, and overall she jus' brings somethin' truly special to the table.
She kicks the up-tempo and mid-tempo numbers with class and style like 'I'm an Errand Girl for Rhythm' a perfect way to open the set, 'Hit that Jive Jack' in which her group joins her on the vocal sing-along, and one of my personal favorite Cole recordings 'Frim Fram Sauce', that bouncy little who-knows-what-the-hell-it-means number, but the real stand-outs are the lush ballads. Hearing her sing tunes like 'You Call it Madness' and the absolutely stellar 'Boulevard of Broken Dreams', ah, it's that late night thang, fa'real, the kind that puts me in a smoky club at 2 a.m., the hour when everybody has gone home except the people with nothing to go home to but trouble. I'll smoke a cigarette, throw one back, and then lay my head on the bar, close my eyes and get lost in the beautiful elegant sounds of Ms. Krall crooning 'I'm Thru with Love' into that microphone. Oh, and when she sings 'A Blossom Fell', all the pain and heartache of the song comes pouring out. I'm dead-up, I could cry listening to this song, and it's my personal favorite number she does on this album. My other favorite directly follows it and that is 'If I Had You', in which Benny Green handles the piano, and Krall makes this a sorrowful, wistful number, very close to an all-out torch song. This music has been given beautiful treatment by a true student of one of the greats. Well, what else can I say, whether she's at the piano or singing, or both, she is somethin' special. Nat would be proud. This was the first piece of music I bought by her, an' I'm hooked.
(by Nathan)
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