Very Best Of Diana Krall Now Out On Vinyl

The album is available as a two-LP set on 180-gram vinyl and follows last year’s release of eight Diana Krall albums on vinyl as part of Verve’s 60th anniversary celebration. […]

The album is available as a two-LP set on 180-gram vinyl and follows last year’s release of eight Diana Krall albums on vinyl as part of Verve’s 60th anniversary celebration. Covering the years 1996-2006, this 15-track collection compiled by Krall in collaboration with her longtime producer, the late Tommy LiPuma, features highlights from her first decade as a recording artist, during which time the Grammy winning singer/pianist’s expressive vocals and delicate, soulful piano work gained her international stardom.

The selections on The Very Best range from intimate trio work to pieces recorded live with a full symphony orchestra. Krall delivers some deeply personal moments and reimagines timeless vintage standards by some of her favorite composers as George and Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Rodgers and Hart, Van Heusen and Cahn, and Bacharach and David. The album includes several tracks from Krall’s 1999 international breakthrough, When I Look in Your Eyes: her mesmerizing interpretations of Cole Porter’s “I’ve Got You Under My Skin,” “Let’s Fall in Love,” and “Pick Yourself Up.” That album was nominated for Album of the Year at the 42nd annual GRAMMY Awards, the first time in 25 years a jazz singer was nominated in that major category. It won for Best Jazz Vocal and Best Engineered Album (Non-Classical).

Throughout the album, Krall’s artistry is highlighted on the Gershwin standard “’S Wonderful” and the Bacharach and David-penned title track from her 2001 GRAMMY Award-winning album, The Look of Love.  This album put her atop her native Canada’s all-genre albums chart for the first time and gave her the Artist and Album of the Year trophies at the Juno Awards in her home country. The collection is also notable for Krall’s imaginative take on Tom Waits’ “The Heart of Saturday Night” and the dark and seductive “You Go to My Head” taken from The Look of Love sessions, both previously unreleased. It also features live renditions of “East of the Sun (West of the Moon)” and “Fly Me To The Moon,” recorded with a symphony orchestra at Krall’s sold-out concerts at Paris’ Olympia Theatre for her live album, Live In Paris.

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The Very Best of Diana Krall Tracklisting

Side A

1. ‘S Wonderful

2. Peel Me a Grape

3. Pick Yourself Up

4. Frim Fram Sauce

Side B

1. You Go to My Head

2. Let’s Fall in Love

3. The Look of Love

Side C

1. East of the Sun (And West of the Moon)

2. I’ve Got You Under My Skin

3. All or Nothing at All

4. Only the Lonely

Side D

1. Let’s Face the Music and Dance

2. The Heart of Saturday Night

3. Little Girl Blue

4. Fly Me to the Moon

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