Diana Krall: All For You (2LP)

"All for You" is a tribute album to the Nat King Cole Trio and was released in 1996, before Diana Krall became a superstar of the jazz scene. Despite the much more commercially successful albums that followed, it is "All for You" that still inspires the critics the most today. The very personal piano interpretations on a Hamburg Steinway with discreet band accompaniment and an almost eerily present voice testify to Krall's deep fascination with Nat King Cole's work as a pianist. Before the recordings in New York in October 1995, Diana Krall had been on tour for months with guitarist Russell Malone and bassist Paul Keller. She was convinced that the fascination of the Nat King Cole Trio's work could only be captured if a real band was playing and not a bunch of studio musicians thrown together. Only rarely in jazz is it possible to prepare a song precisely and yet accessibly without drums. This is a lesson in this subject. Only on the track "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" do the drums play their part. VERVE ACOUSTIC SOUNDS SERIES: Stereo, completely analog mastered by Ryan K. Smith at Sterling Sound from the original tapes, QPR pressing (180 g), sturdy tip-on gatefold (Stoughton Printing), padded inner sleeve.