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List Price: $18.98 | | Label: Verve
Salesrank: 9481
Released: September 19, 2006 |
| Our Price: $6.71 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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From This Moment On Track Listing:
1. It Could Happen to You
2. Isn’t This A Lovely Day
3. How Insensitive
4. Exactly Like You
5. From This Moment On
6. I was Doing All Right
7. Little Girl Blue
8. Day In Day Out
9. Willow Weep For Me
10. Come Dance With Me
11. You Can Depend On Me
Editorial Review:
From This Moment On is an 11-song collection that captures the Canadian-born sensation in full swing, in great company, and at the top of her game. It could also be called her strongest, most cohesive release to date. Krall--for the few still unknowing--is the 41-year old sensation whose cool, heavy-lidded vocals and strikingly sensitive piano-playing has helped her transcend barriers of genre to become a popular artist of the first order who has carved herself a permanent position at the top of the jazz charts. In songs, mood, and delivery, From This Moment On reveals Krall's personal ardor for that golden era of song-making, when Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, and (especially) Nat "King" Cole were in their prime. It's musical territory that Krall has often explored, but this album was certainly not a case of simply repeating past formulas: Krall's A-team of support--producer Tommy LiPuma, engineer Al Schmitt, and arranger/bandleader John Clayton--were on hand to ensure that inspiration was kept on an edge, unhindered by the studio environment.
More Diana Krall
All for You: A Dedication to the Nat King Cole Trio | 
Live in Paris | 
Love Scenes |
The Girl in the Other Room | 
Christmas Songs | 
Stepping Out |
Description of From This Moment On:
This album appears in the footsteps of 2004's The Girl in the Other Room but doesn't sound like a follow-up. Whereas The Girl saw the pianist-singer abandon the Great American Songbook for more personal pastures, From This Moment On sees her working out on standards done in traditional arrangements. Although the tracks here are by the likes of Cole Porter, Jimmy Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn, and the Gershwins, Krall sounds more at ease than ever before; perhaps digging deep inside on The Girl loosened her up. Backed by the Clayton/Hamilton Jazz Orchestra on seven tracks, Krall sings off the big band with ease. On the title track, she keeps up with a galloping bass and explosive brass arrangements and even ventures into scatting toward the end of the song. Her voice has also acquired a wonderfully worn texture in the past few years, and it works wonders on the ballads (just listen to "Isn't This a Lovely Day" and "Little Girl Blue" for instance). When standards are done like this, there's just nothing like 'em. --Elisabeth Vincentelli
From This Moment On Reviews:
Good voice, nothing special in music 
2009-11-09 - It's quite plain vocal jazz. Instruments are so-so for there's no big parts for them. I'd consider this as nice background music.
Somewhat disappointed
2009-10-25 - I've always considered Diana Krall a jazz pianist who can sing, not the other way around. She is a musician first.
When she does sing, I consider her an intimate singer. She is at her best alone with her piano, and surrounded with as few others as possible. That's why an orchestra of any kind takes away from her talent. She is special and unique, and the best album she's ever made was "All For You" dated, 1996. There was Diana, and from three to five other musicians, alone. Her voice was in it's natural lower range and each song was intimate, even the upbeat arrangements, and sung only for the listener. That's the kind of music Diana Krall is best at doing. I miss that and wish she would go back to doing that type of recording. I encourage anyone who is considering this album to order "All For You" first, and hear Diana Krall at her very best. She is a national "Jazz" treasure!
Diana returns to the Great American Songbook 
2009-06-12 - Most of these songs are likely to be familiar to anybody who has built up a collection of music written by such composers as Irving Berlin, Jimmy Van Heusen, Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers and their contemporaries. They are all songs of the highest quality that have been covered many times down the years. Until comparatively recently, pop and rock singers raised in the aftermath of rock'n'roll tended to ignore such songs, but even some of them have now realized how great these songs are (or how much money they can make by recording them). Diana has recorded several albums of such material, though this was her first for some time.
The tracks here fall into two categories, seven tracks being recorded with the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra while the other five were recorded without them. The Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra features John Clayton as arranger and conductor of 29 other musicians. John Clayton plays bass on the tracks without the orchestra, while Jeff Hamilton plays drums on all tracks, whether as a member of the orchestra or not. There are plenty of instrumental solos throughout the album featuring various musicians, including three tracks (It could happen to you, Day in day out, Willow weep for me) where Diana plays piano solo. All these solos mean that some tracks last longer (occasionally much longer) than they normally would, but the whole album works well.
This is a wonderful album that ought to please Diana's many fans though, once again, it relies heavily on ballads. It would have been nice to have one or two up-tempo tracks to provide a contrast but that's a minor quibble. Diana obviously loves singing ballads and it seems to be what most fans buy her music for.
excellent choice and a wonderful performance. I love it.
2009-05-02 - The disc is excellent as always and I highly recommend Dianna Krall to those jazz lovers as I am.
One of her finest
2008-12-08 - As a jazz record reviewer, one of the plagues of my life is the proliferation of weakly talented white-chick jazz singers. Diana Krall is one of the more reliable antidotes for that malaise, and this album is truly one of her finest. Her version of Irving Berlin's "Isn't It A Lovely Day" is reason enough to pop for this disc; it's one of the most timeless jazz vocals I've ever heard.
