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Christmas Songs

Diana Krall Audio CD
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Some music is intended to paint a romantic scene – a candlelit dinner, a walk along a moonlit beach. Quiet Nights – Diana Krall’s twelfth album – ain’t about that. Using Brazil as a musical point of reference, the award-winning pianist and singer is not suggesting a night out; she means to stay in.

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  • Audio CD (14 Nov 2005)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Decca (UMO)
  • ASIN: B000B7BRMM
  • Other Editions: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 39,555 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. Jingle Bells 3:25£0.69
Listen  2. Let It Snow 4:01£0.89
Listen  3. The Christmas Song 4:23£0.69
Listen  4. Winter Wonderland 3:14£0.69
Listen  5. I'll Be Home For Christmas 3:07£0.79
Listen  6. Christmas Time Is Here 3:34£0.69
Listen  7. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town 2:53£0.69
Listen  8. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas 4:18£0.69
Listen  9. White Christmas 4:31£0.69
Listen10. What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? 4:10£0.69
Listen11. Sleigh Ride 3:26£0.69
Listen12. Count Your Blessings Instead Of Sheep 3:41£0.79


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61 of 65 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Have yourself a Jazzy little Christmas, 16 Nov 2005
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Steveo (London, England) - See all my reviews
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Diana Krall has delivered an album full of classics. Christmas classics, that is. This album does pretty much exactly what it says on the box, yet it does it with a style and elegance that is not usually afforded to these types of projects. Diana's trademark jazzy style is present throughout this record and her interpretations of such greats as Jingle Bells, Let It Snow and Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas transcend any 'novelty song' status and sound genuinely great. In fact, the record as a whole never slips into the purely novelty category, due to the wonderful arrangements, respect and enthusiasm Diana shows these classic songs. This will appeal to the hardcore Diana Krall fans yet it should also be received by a much larger audience. You simply won't find a classier, more appealing Christmas album this year.

Buy a copy and have yourself a merry little Christmas.

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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Some seasonal cheer that’s distinctively Diana., 16 Jan 2006
This review is from: Christmas Songs (Audio CD)
I’m pleased that she has reverted to more classic jazz than her recent offerings which I haven’t enjoyed as much. I heard this in a shop before I realised it was Diana Krall and thought it was an upbeat must buy. This is very much what you expect from a Krall Christmas album. 12 Beautifully orchestrated versions of classic Christmas songs, not always my all-time-favourite versions. For example Ella’s “Sleighride” is hard to beat, but Diana’s version is in her own style. As for “What are you Doing New Years Eve”, I think Harry Connick Jr’s version is far more subtle and therefore superior. “Christmas Time is Here” is a stocking filler. But if you’re fond of Diana and want a new seasonal album to add to your collection you can’t go far wrong.
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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A touch of Christmas elegance, 9 Dec 2005
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Mr. R. B. Ager "Ronald Ager" (Nottingham, UK) - See all my reviews
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The elegant, silken voice and piano playing of Diana Krall have been with us now for ten years, so I suppose we were overdue this album of Christmas standards.

Long term fans like myself, who were a little uncomfortable with her last two studio albums, will be relieved to discover that she has banished both the over-lush orchestral arrangements and her husband's eclectic but tuneless involvement this time. Further than that, she has resisted the usual temptation to include any new or self-penned songs, so that the old chestnuts are allowed to roast nicely on their own.

Musical backing on seven of the songs, the more uptempo ones, comes from the Clayton/Hamilton Jazz Orchestra. The sound they produce is just short of full big band jazz, and they give a smooth, rounded accompaniment to the likes of opener Jingle Bells, Let It Snow and Winter Wonderland. Diana's singing is polished and elegant as ever, but her ad-libs and occasional lapsing into scat mean that the shadows, if not the ghosts, of Ella, and Dino, and Sinatra fly a little too close for comfort.

For me the slower numbers work better, with the traditional jazz quartet instrumentation. The Christmas Song and I'll Be Home For Christmas are just the right side of dreamy and Diana makes them her own (not once did Nat Cole come to mind). White Christmas is turned into a slow, smoochy dance, as near to a waltz as the tune will allow, and it works beautifully.

Some of the slower numbers do have orchestral backing, and Johnny Mandel arranges and conducts three of them in his inimitable understated fashion - Christmas Time Is Here, Have Yourself a Merry... and Count Your Blessings. This last track isn't really a Christmas song, but it's a little gem, a lullaby from the pen of Irving Berlin and makes for an excellent closing to the album.

Throughout Diana's singing is as smooth and elegant as we have come to expect. The backings and production, courtesy of Tommy Lipuna, are also polished and just about perfect. If I was picky I would say that it is all just a bit too perfect and clinical - while it's probably a good thing that there's not even a whiff of snow or bells, jingling or otherwise, except in the lyrics, it does seem to lack a bit of colour or emotion. I don't know - maybe I was expecting too much.

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