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Only Trust Your Heart |
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| Styles: |
Adult Contemporary - Female Vocalists - Jazz - Labels - GRP - Vocalists - Female - Pop |
| Media: |
Audio CD |
| Release Date: |
March 1995 |
| Label: |
Grp |
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| UPC Catalogue No: |
011105981026 |
| Amazon Sales Ranking: |
8184 |
| Number of Discs: |
1 |
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Description |
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Diana Krall, here with her first GRP album, expands on the delights that populated her 1992 debut, Stepping Out. Again, her talents are simply remarkable: she sings with feeling, emotion and nuance--she invests a lyric with believability--and plays marvellous piano, no matter the tempo. The programme pleases on so many levels: slip the disc into the player, hit any track at random and you'll be moved. Take the oh-so-slow, heartfelt groover "Squeeze Me", on which her alto is both breathy and demonstrative and her accompaniments are sly, and which features a winsome solo by bass maestro Ray Brown. On another gut-wrenching crawler, "All Night Long", Krall tears you up with her emotive, intimate vocal, interspersing her singing with telling, shimmering piano notes, then delivering a solo full of wry confidences. The succulent title track is a deliciously slow bossa where Krall's vocal is partly whispered, as if sung in your ear. More upbeat is the finger-popping "Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby", where the artist sings with grit and life, then solos with an economical drive. Tenor saxophone giant Stanley Turrentine adds a trademark saucy improvisation. "I Love Being Here with You" is a romping shuffle where Krall's voice hits some notes on the head and stretches out others like toffee. "Broadway" is another vibrant outing that includes a singing, fat-noted solo from bassist Christian McBride and Lewis Nash's deft brush work. --Zan Stewart |
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Tracks |
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Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby? |
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Only Trust Your Heart |
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I Love Being Here With You |
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Broadway |
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Folks Who Live on the Hill |
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I've Got the World on a String |
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Squeeze Me |
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All Night Long |
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CRS-Craft |
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Customer Reviews |
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A real jazz album |
Rating: 5.0 |
Whatever you may think of Diana's more recent crossover music (which I think is brilliant), this early album demonstrates clearly that her music is rooted in jazz. There is no crossover here – it's pure jazz. Diana sings and plays piano, backed by a small but select band comprising a bass player (sometimes Ray Brown, sometimes Christian McBride), a drummer (Lewis Nash) and a ten saxophonist (Stanley Turrentine).Like so many of Diana's albums, this one relies heavily on songs from the first half of the twentieth century, beginning with Louis Jordan's classic Is you or is you ain't my baby. Other classic songs featured here include Squeeze me (Duke Ellington) and two songs associated with Peggy Lee (I love being here with you, The folks who live on the hill). The only original is the closing bluesy instrumental, CRS craft. This is a fine album that will particularly appeal to jazz aficionados. It may even expand the market as fans of Diana's later music learn to appreciate jazz. But some of those fans may not like this – if in doubt, listen to some of it before buying. |
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excellent , she's the contempary female jazz singer |
Rating: 5.0 |
I think that this album was one of the greatest vocal jazz albums of modern day. Diana Krall is a superb female artist, her voice is great and her band gives you a good jazz feeling that makes you want to run out and buy every single one of Cd's. On reflection I think I shall. |
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Simply Superb |
Rating: 5.0 |
Diana Krall has achieved even greater greatness with this album, rather than writing about each track, suffice to say this is an album to treasure and play and play and play! |
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Swinging Jazz |
Rating: 5.0 |
'Only Trust Your Heart' is Diana Kralls second studio album, the first being 'Stepping Out'. It is a wonderful collection of jazz standards, with a mixture of lovely ballads and swinging up tempo tunes. Diana's voice is as always gloriously grainy, deep and sexy. Recorded with a trio of Diana on piano, Lewis Nash on drums and Ray Brown and Christian McBride on bass. It has a lot more simplicity and intimacy than the later albums, and definately has a jazz, rather than the easy listening of her last two albums, feel. There is also the addition of Stanley Turrentine on tenor saxophone on three of the songs included in this selection, which adds a bit of variety into the mix. Among the highlights of the album are 'The Folks Who Live on the Hill', a moving and sentimental ballad with a lovely laid back simple backing; 'I love being here with you' and 'I've got the world on a string' both swinging numbers in which Diana's talents of voice and piano shine through; Another great tune is 'KRS Craft' which is the only instrumental on the album. It totally swings with ease and is a joy to listen to. Diana Krall is a superbly talented artist. Her piano playing is brilliant, and it is a crying shame that in her latest album, 'The Look of Love' she doesn't get a chance to shine her piano skills off to the full. Not that 'The Look of Love' is a bad album, in fact it is a lovely romantic ballad album. However, it lacks the jazz and swing of her previous recordings and for me doesn't have enough variety to keep me interested. If you want to hear Diana Krall at her swinging best then I can thoroughly recommend this album, it is superb. |
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