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1. ‘S Wonderful
2. Love Letters
3. I Remember You
4. Cry Me A River
5. Besame Mucho
6. The Night We Called It A Day
7. Dancing In The Dark
8. I Get Along With You Very Well
9. The Look Of Love
10. Maybe You’ll Be There
After Diana Krall won the Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Performance of 1999 with When I Look in Your Eyes, the Canadian musician recorded the album that is still regarded as her finest: The Look Of Love – a wonderful, cinematic collection of ballads and great bossa nova hits. Thanks in part to the participation of the London Symphony Orchestra under the direction of the legendary Claus Ogerman, The Look Of Love recalls some of Frank Sinatra’s most famous albums – associations with In the Wee Small Hours and Only The Lonely are unavoidable: the elegant piano solos, the vocal style, the humor… The album was recorded on September 18, from January 22 to 27, from March 9 to 11, and on June 3 and 4, 2001, across two continents: at Avatar Studios (New York City) and Capitol Studios (Hollywood), USA, as well as at Abbey Road (London), UK. Released on September 18, 2001 by Verve Records, it became Krall’s first album to reach the top of the Canadian album charts. In 2002, the album won the Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical, and received the Juno Award for Album of the Year in Canada.
The Look Of Love is Krall’s fifth album produced by Tommy LiPuma, president of the Verve Music Group. Regarding Claus Ogerman, Krall said that, together with Johnny Mandel, he has been her favorite arranger and composer since she was 17 years old. Ogerman played an important role in the production of some of the best albums by Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, and Antonio Carlos Jobim. Ogerman also worked with LiPuma for many years, the first time on George Benson’s famous album Breezin’. The Look Of Love is distinguished by remarkable stylistic coherence, even though it includes pieces from very different sources, such as Cry Me A River by Julie London, Love Letters by Nat King Cole, and famous jazz standards such as Dancing In The Dark by Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz, I Remember You by Victor Schertzinger and John Mercer, and the celebrated ’S Wonderful by George and Ira Gershwin.
As part of Verve Records’ 70th anniversary, Universal Music Japan is releasing a new series that presents the legendary catalog of the renowned label in impressively mastered, high-resolution sound quality. The limited Japan SHM-SACD (single-layer) comes in a mini-LP cardboard sleeve with OBI strip and makes Diana Krall’s The Look Of Love an absolutely collectible release!
This title is an SHM-SACD. This format is the further development of the single-layer SACD and uses a particularly light-transparent plastic (Super High Material). This achieves significantly better readability of the pit-land structures on the surface than is possible with hybrid SACDs. Universal’s SHM-SACDs are generally newly digitized in DSD directly from the albums’ master tapes without any alterations. SHM-SACDs can be played on any SACD player. Please use neither L’Art du Son nor alcohol-based cleaning agents. – Please note: all titles are conceived by Universal Music as limited-edition collector’s items for the Japanese market.
