Only Trust Your Heart

by Diana Krall

Overview

Canadian singer/pianist Diana Krall moved up to an American major label, GRP Records, with her second album, Only Trust Your Heart, having made her debut, Stepping Out, with the Canadian independent Justin Time Records two year earlier. The approach is basically the same, although her supporting musicians are different. Tenor saxophonist Stanley Turrentine sits in on three tracks, "Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby?," "I Love Being Here with You," and the Ray Brown instrumental "CRS-Craft," but otherwise this is piano trio music, with drummer Lewis Nash and either Brown or Christian McBride on bass. Krall is a neo-traditionalist with a legitimate pedigree detailed by Michael Bourne in his liner notes: an isolated upbringing in British Columbia, playing her father's Fats Waller 78s; classical piano lessons while playing in the school jazz band; a Vancouver Jazz Festival scholarship to the Berklee College of Music; a Canadian Arts Council grant to study with Jimmy Rowles in Los Angeles. The result is a performer steeped in traditional acoustic jazz piano playing and singing, and Krall demonstrates her talents on this album, soloing freely on the tunes, which are mostly standards, of course, and singing in a sturdy alto. It says something about the state of jazz circa 1995 that, at age 30, such a performer was getting a big promotional push. Krall was much more than a pretty face and a wave of blonde hair playing old-fashioned jazz, but she was that, too. So, once again in major-label jazz, it was back to the future for a record that, for all intents and purposes, could have been recorded in 1954 instead of 1994, except, of course, that that would have been ten years before the artist was born. ~ William Ruhlmann

Product Details

Release Date:	11/22/2024
Label:	Grp Records
UPC:	0602468035442

Tracks

1. Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby
2. Only Trust Your Heart
3. I Love Being Here With You
4. Broadway
5. Folks Who Live On The Hill
6. I've Got The World On A String
7. Squeeze Me
8. All Night Long
9. CRS Craft

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Diana Krall   Primary Artist,Piano,Vocals
Stanley Turrentine   Primary Artist,Guest Artist,Sax (Tenor)
Christian McBride   Primary Artist,Guest Artist,Bass
Ray Brown   Primary Artist,Guest Artist,Bass
Andy Baltimore   Director
Shelly Fierston   Director
Lewis Nash   Drums

Technical Credits

Al Schmitt   Engineer
Louis Jordan   Composer
Ray Brown   Composer
Ray Henderson   Composer
Michael Bourne   Liner Notes
Tommy LiPuma   Producer
Rich Lamb   Assistant Engineer
Ted Koehler   Composer
Benny Carter   Composer
Oscar Hammerstein II   Composer
Alan Silvestri   Composer
Henri Woode   Composer
Sammy Cahn   Composer
Curtis Lewis   Composer
Michael Landy   Post Production
Sonny Mediana   Photography
Freddie Paloma   Design
Frank Treviso   Make-Up,Hair Stylist
R. Andrew Lepley   Photography
Scott Austin   Assistant Engineer
Cara Bridgins   Production Coordination
Hollis King   Art Direction
Bill Schluger   Composer
Joseph Doughney   Post Production
Joseph Moore   Assistant Producer
Evan Ritchie   Stylist,Clothing/Wardrobe
Gavin   Mastering
Carol Weinberg   Photography
Henry J. Wood   Composer
Billy Austin   Composer
Bill Byrd   Composer
Teddy McRae   Composer
Jerome Kern   Composer
Harold Arlen   Composer
Billy Bird   Composer
Bill Austin   Composer
Duke Ellington   Composer
Nicholas Brodszky   Composer
Carl Griffin   Executive Producer
Doug Sax   Mastering
Lee Gaines   Composer
Peggy Lee   Composer