Sunday - December 26, 2010

Music To Be Snowed In With

Here is Diana Krall covering Tom Waits’ Temptation. If honey were human, it would look and sound like Diana Krall. 5’9” worth of leg, blond, voice, and talent; she’s been the driving force behind the resurgence of torch singers and jazz standards over the past decade and a half. Soft? Smooth? Warm? You don’t know the half of it.

YouTube has about 20 videos of her doing this song, but I chose this one because it has the strongest and cleanest sound. Even through the PC speakers she sounds good. She’s reason all by herself to own a fantastic stereo, and nearly all of her albums are very well recorded. On the hi-fi downstairs, you hit the Play button and she comes out of the speakers, sits in your lap, and purrs in your ear while leaning close enough so that you can feel her breathe. Drambuie and butter. Nice work if you can get it, and quite the challenge because she’s managing to play the piano at the very same time!

Ms. Krall has been married to Elvis Costello for 7 years now, and they have twin boys who just turned 4. I’m pretty sure they live somewhere up in Canada when they aren’t bopping around Mahattan. Who really cares? And honestly, I’d love her work if she looked like Barney the Dinosaur. But I’m so glad she doesn’t.

Posted by Drew458     on 12/26/2010 at 09:27 PM   
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