Diana Krall - Christmas Songs
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Music Reviews of Christmas Songs
Music Review: OK, but others do it better
Rating: 3 Stars
Diana Krall's best Christmas song is "Young, Lonesome Soldier", and it's not on this CD. As I listened to "Christmas Songs", I kept thinking, "this is ok, but X does it better". "Jingle Bells". Streisand's is better. "Let it Snow". Manhattan Transfer is better. "Winter Wonderland". Amy Grant does it better. "I'll be Home for Christmas". Karen Carpenter's version is better. "What are you doing New Year's". Steve Tyrell has a better version. OK, she's the best on "Chrismas Time is here" and matches the best on a couple of others. But overall, it's not as good as I'd hoped. Maybe there are so few standard Christmas songs that it's hard to do something really new.
Music Review: Best by the Best
Rating: 5 Stars
Several years ago, we bought a Diana Krall album and attached was a bonus Christmas CD with 3 or 4 songs. We've been waiting for Diana to do a full length Christmas CD. This album is the best by the best. Diana Krall has once again outdone herself.
We saw her perform at CNU in Newport News several years ago. As she did that night and has done on her other albums, she has found the perfect mix of upbeat sounds with the smooth, soulful sounds that we've come to know as Diana Krall. Her rendition of "I'll be home for Christmas" is fantastic. This will be the perfect Christmas gift for anyone who loves the sound of Diana Krall. Every song is beautiful.
Music Review: A Classy Christmas
Rating: 4 Stars
The trouble with Christmas albums is that by December 26th they are usually consigned to the CD rack for 11 months -- I fear this may be another. However, it is a nice album,with good, sensitive arrangements; both with the Clayton~Hamilton Jazz Orchestra{which gets one of the stars awarded this cd) and also with the string section. Diana Krall always exudes CLASS and this album is no exception. It`s also "cute" that she finds it difficult to pronounce her "R`s" (Cwistmas; awound etc). This CD would be ideal as background dinner music or for a late night,romantic drive. It`s not a great jazz album, but it certainly has good jazz tinges and it is very tasteful.Music Review: Does it sound tinny to you?
Rating: 1 Stars
It doesn't seem like her voice is warm in the recording.
The songs are a bit boring as far as jazz themed music goes.
She seems like she's sleepy while singing it or doing her impression of a soulful lounge singer.
When I look at the cover I ask why is she trying to use sex to sell it with that frizzy ball of hair hanging and her dress hiked up her thighs? It's a sad attempt and you people who purchase it and Amazon who keeps putting her CDs on my front page perpetrate the idea that there's actual music in the CD.
This is not very good in my opinion. It's cardboard and boring.
Music Review: Christmas songs the way they are supposed to be sung
Rating: 5 Stars
Diana Krall sings the classics, she does not try like others to write a new classic Christmas song and it's fine like that. She delivers great versions of all the songs and gives us one of the best Christmas albums in the recent years by a major artist.
She gives all the songs freshness although they are half a century old or maybe more and she sings them the way they are supposed to be sung with the jazz mood.
Christmas is a special time of the year and it's great when a fine artist like Diana Krall brings all the songs back to their original form. It sounds fresh and new although we know all of them by heart.