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...bumptious, peevish world of jazz, where, as it's said about academic politics, the knives are so sharp because the stakes are so low. The grievance? Along comes a young, good-looking, white jazz singer who mostly performs familiar standards and stays pretty close to the melody--Diana Krall was the last such transgressor--and an entire generation of innovators gets ignored. Sad to say, this is absolutely accurate. It's also irrelevant--this kid can sing...
...Emmy and a Grammy awarded to the company's software. One wall celebrates the company's 108 patents. Posters of such movies as Crouching Tiger and Titanic line the halls, and the conference rooms bear names like The Matrix. Each title used Avid systems. Says company president David Krall: "You're able to trick the mind into seeing things that it believes are real. It's the highest art form...
...this supremely satisfying CD, trumpeter Terence Blanchard, with the help of four jazz divas, pays tribute to the music of songwriting great Jimmy McHugh. Diana Krall whisks in like winter, offering a chilly, elegant take on the title song; newcomer Jane Monheit is spring, with a dewy rendition of Too Young to Go Steady; Dianne Reeves' summery I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me offers gentle warmth; and Cassandra Wilson's autumnal Sunny Side of the Street is laden with loss but colored with beautiful hues. Blanchard blows his way through these songs with charming, restrained...
Cross Diana Krall with Susan Sontag, and you get Patricia Barber, whose throaty, come-hither vocals and coolly incisive piano are displayed to devastating effect on her first all-standards album. Nightclub is clearly designed to prove that the cerebral Chicago songstress can be more than just a lesbian cult figure, and it succeeds spectacularly: Barber's hushed, sensuous version of Bye Bye Blackbird hasn't been bettered since Miles Davis last took the old standby out for a spin...
Tony Bennett and Diana Krall (May 7; August...