Customer Reviews

Look Of Love

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After the success of 1999 Platinum-Selling album, "When I Look In Your Eyes," Tommy LiPuma came up with another bestseller, "The Look Of Love." It has an excellent repertoire of wonderful and infinite songs by famous composers from Gershwin, Carmichael, Mercer, to Bacharach. This album won the "Best Engineered Album" in the 2002 Grammy Awards.

Diana Krall's sophisticated and elegant singing style as well as Claus Ogerman's superb orchestral arrangement brings out the very best of the 10 songs in this album. These songs have been interpreted countless times but Diana's interpretations made them musical treasures of a lifetime. Every song is a gem from the first track, "'S Wonderful" to the last track, "Maybe You'll Be There." My personal choices are the very charming "The Look of Love," a Bacharach/David composition and the title track, Gershwin Brothers' "'S Wonderful," Hamilton's "Cry Me A River" and Mercer's "I Remember You."

There's no doubt that Diana Krall is the reigning Queen of Jazz. It would be great if she will include in her repertoire such lovely songs as "Taking A Chance On Love," "How Long Has This Been Going On," "La Vie En Rose, "The More I See You," "Night And Day," "Just In Time," "My Romance," "Lullaby of Birdland," "Till The End Of Time" (based on Chopin's Polonaise No. 6) and "Full Moon And Empty Arms"(based on Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2), to suggest a few. I'm sure she will do more than justice to these all-time favorites with her great voice and exceptional piano skills.

Very highly recommended!

this is an instant classic people!

i heard all her clips at http://www.vervemusicgroup.com and bought the cd immediately!

If you haven't heard Diana Krall, you're missingout. She is a true jazz talent. I recommend The Look of Love highly.

I have always hated jazz. I much prefer classical music as well at the real rocknroll...I believe that rocknroll died the day Elvis went into the army. The other night I was channel hopping and ended up on the CBC looking at this attractive blonde singing Cry Me A River......turned out to be Diana Krall...Live in Paris.....
I was mezmerized.......the piano playing, the mellow mood....and to top it off Krall's exquisite diction....One can understand every word....Remember Simon and Garfunkel's mouthing and mumbling of word in Bridge Over Troubled Waters??? None of that here.....clear, precise, perfection...............G

An interesting middle of the road attempt at Bossa Nova, without quite connecting. But S'Wonderful is -- although credit should be given to Joao Gilberto's Amoroso 1977 album where S'Wonderful and Besame Mucho originated. Not a coincidence that Claus and Tommy were arranger and co-producer on Amoroso. Try the original and see how much Miss Krall admires Mr Gilberto.

You will notice some bad reviews of this album sprinkled among the glowing ones; because on this album the artist does not overlook the obvious but instead puts it to use, Diana Krall opens herself up to attack for being a sexy woman. Yes, she is good looking. Yes, she has great legs. Yes, she's wearing heels. What of it? She looks good, and all of it is icing on the cake - the music is wonderful.

The sad part of all of this is that if the photography that accompanies the album had featured Krall in sweats and Birkenstocks, these same bitter cranks would be singing the album's praises. Instead, she looks good, so they say the music is bad. That is rather pathetic.

with what others have to say about this spectacular cd. Krall's voice is simply amazing, soothing, and relaxing. Forget Norah Jones, but this is what relaxing music is. Cry Me A River is as filled with so much emotion as one can ever imagine, after all, its my favourite track on the cd.

I would have given this cd 3 and a half stars.This is a very good song. Although some of the songs are long and do drag sometimes (BESAME MUCHO) many of them are excellent. The stand out songs are I REMEMBER YOU (the best in the album) and THE LOOK OF LOVE. This CD is good value although their could of been some room for improvment. If you do not like smooth jazz or slow music do not buy this CD! If u are a jazz fan or even a classical fan be sure you do buy this CD. Great vocal and orchestral arrangments make this CD even better. All in all this is a great CD for any smooth jazz fan or classical fan.

I think it may be a bit of a shame this album is in the "jazz" catagory, for although Diana Krall may be a "jazz artist", on this miraculous CD she simply a singer of standards.... she has style, but (thank God), she sings these songs without destroying or molesting the lyric or melody that so many artists are prone to do today. THE SONGS are the stars on this album, not the "stylings" of a "diva"... how refreshing that is! These songs are not for those with limited attention spans who must have a driving beat and an occasional yelp or cry from the vocalist... these songs are for those who know how to listen and hear truly great orchestrations from veterans like Claus Ogerman (who orchestrated the most mellow of all Frank Sinatra's albums "Francis Albert Sinatra and Antonio Carlos Jobim" in the 1960s).. and this album is a tribute to that very sound. This album is lush, romantic, beautifully crafted and sensuous.. it is for a night of romance and for decompression from the traffic and noise of everyday life. I hope Ms. Krall will give us more albums like this masterpiece. TOP musicians, superbly crafted arrangements and a clear and clean vocalist who respects lyric, melody and emotion make this clearly a 5 star masterwork in every respect.

It is sitting in my cd rack but it was not my idea to buy this album. I do not understand why artists that cannot come out with their own songs have such a great success. At least, if she would have done those songs in a diffent style than the original songs, it would be a little more interesting and creative. Imagine a country version of "The look of love", or the opposite, a jazz version of "Sweet dreams are made of this".

I find women have a lack of imagination in music. Singing is the big thing for them and that's about it. When they touch an instrument, they don't want to reinvent music and limit themselves in few styles. Sexy and good looking is another big thing that I would trade easily for woman with charisma. Would they venture to be part of a band instead of being the sole member?

Stupid as it is, I have a pair of shoes that I call my Diana Krall's shoes, as if she was nothing else than a pair of legs on top of high heels.

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