Best Diana Krall album...........is???

Hey fans and anti-fans -

looks like our favorite diva has a new one coming called Quiet Nights due out at the end of March - available for preorder on Amazon now

Live In Paris are incredible both sonically & musically.
Jazz

live in Paris is not available on sacd so are people recommending the cd versus the lp or vice versa?

Mike

"Good for you! I have several albums and only ever played them once. I find it very puzzling why she is so popular. My loss I guess - try as I might I simply don't get it - and I normally like ALL genres even the prototypical formulaic throw back your hair sultry kind of dross."

Well I must say Shadorne you nailed it for me. While I find many of the recordings to be quite good the artistry is just not involving. Your quote sums it up for me, I don't get it. She is a beautiful woman, obviously loves what she is is doing but at the end of the day she can be thrown into the category of performers that are marketed more for their looks than any substance they bring to the table.....mediocrity? maybe not quite that severe a inditement but she is not an inovative artist. Am I being too cynical? maybe but she just doesn't move me however much I like her persona.

Questioning her popularity is valid--but has to be seen in context of her timing. She came about at a time when active female, 'jazz' artists were seemingly few in number.
Her "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" was a good song and she does have good pitch and interesting phrasing. I, once enamored, am now seeing her lessened somewhat when compared to the the mega talents such as, Ella, (in her own category), and Nancy Wilson.