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In Reply to: RE: Look what's sitting on the table with the pretty lady ... posted by bjh on May 06, 2017 at 10:08:06
Other pictures I've seen of her, and the DVD I have, show her to be more attractive than that cover. Strange expression there.
"The piano ain't got no wrong notes." Thelonious Monk
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My guess is a conscious attempt to recreate the 40's/WWII look.
I don't know it that makes sense for the new LP (haven't heard it/about it), but that wouldn't be a stretch ...she has been in an explorative phase for a while now.
I find the discussion of her attractiveness more than a little odd, but I'll leave it at that. ;)
the marketers and producers behind her have sold her looks since the first album. in a way, it works against her as pretty girls are often taken less seriously in all professions (except pop divas). i think she is a serious musician who considers herself as such and goes along with the cheesecake image because like it or not, a pretty or if not pretty, glamorous looking girl (if you don't think she is pretty) on a record cover does attract male attention. i will reserve my thoughts on her looks and say that i can enjoy a side or two of her music, but she in not my favorite.
Tom Collins
Before she was "Diana Krall", I heard her live at Blues Alley in Georgetown DC. The thing is, she is a very fine jazz pianist, first and foremost. Unfortunately the subsequent efforts to sell her to the public as a sort of modern day Julie London have under-promoted the fact that, as you say, she is a fine musician who was genuinely influenced at an early age by the piano playing of another (greater) singer who was a great pianist too, Nat King Cole.
"the marketers and producers behind her have sold her looks since the first album"
Precisely, hence the irony.
Personally I see Diana Krall as one of the Premier ladies of Jazz.
At a time when Jazz was far from the limelight she toured an excellent Big Band with a string of excellent releases to feed that purpose.
Even her small setting releases from that period didn't stray far for straight Jazz, i.e. in the tradition.
More formerly, perhaps as fitting for family, kids, etc., her works are more modest, explore other areas, etc.
A great talent, a gift to Jazz, and a class act. I've been of that opinion for decades.
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