Quiet Nights (Diana Krall album)

Quiet Nights
Studio album by Diana Krall
Released March 31, 2009 (2009-03-31)
Recorded 2009; Capitol Studios
(Hollywood, Los Angeles, California)
Genre Vocal jazz, bossa nova
Label Verve
Producer Diana Krall, Tommy LiPuma
Diana Krall chronology
The Very Best of Diana Krall
(2007)		 Quiet Nights
(2009)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
The Boston Globe (positive)[2]
Entertainment Weekly (B+)[3]
The Hartford Courant (positive)[4]
Los Angeles Times (lukewarm)[5]
The New York Times (positive)[6]
The Observer [7]
The Phoenix [8]
PopMatters (5/10)[9]
Toronto Star [10]

Quiet Nights is the ninth studio album by Canadian jazz singer-songwriter and pianist Diana Krall, released on March 31, 2009 by Verve Records. The album marks Krall's first work with arranger Claus Ogerman since 2002's Live in Paris, and her first studio work with Ogerman since 2001's The Look of Love.[1] In 2010, the song "Quiet Nights" earned Claus Ogerman the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s).[11]

The album's title comes from the English-language title of the bossa nova standard "Corcovado", written by Antonio Carlos Jobim and first made popular in the early 1960s. The title track is one of three selections written or co-written by Jobim. Krall had previously included the Jobim-penned "How Insensitive" ("Insensatez") on her 2006 release From This Moment On, and performed Jobim's "The Boy from Ipanema" with Rosemary Clooney on the latter's 2000 album Brazil.

Contents

Commercial performance

Quiet Nights debuted at number three and later peaked at number two on the Canadian Albums Chart. It debuted at number three on the US Billboard 200, selling 104,000 copies in its opening week.[12] It also debuted at number one on the Top Jazz Albums, earning Krall her ninth number-one album on the chart.[12] In mainland Europe, the album reached the top spot in Hungary, Poland, and Portugal and charted inside the top five in Austria, France, Greece, Norway, and Spain, as well as on the pan-European chart. It also debuted on the New Zealand RIANZ chart at number two. In late 2009, Billboard ranked Quiet Nights at number twenty-five on the Top Jazz Albums decade-end chart of the 2000s.[13]

Track listing

  1. "Where or When" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 4:10
  2. "Too Marvelous for Words" (Johnny Mercer, Richard A. Whiting) – 4:05
  3. "I've Grown Accustomed to His Face" (Frederick Loewe, Alan Jay Lerner) – 4:48
  4. "The Boy from Ipanema" (Antonio Carlos Jobim, Vinicius de Moraes, Norman Gimbel) – 4:54
  5. "Walk On By" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) – 5:03
  6. "You're My Thrill" (Jay Gorney, Sidney Clare) – 5:47
  7. "Este Seu Olhar" (Jobim) – 2:45
  8. "So Nice" (Marcos Valle, Paulo Sérgio Valle, Gimbel) – 3:52
  9. "Quiet Nights" (Jobim, Gene Lees) – 4:45
  10. "Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry" (Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn) – 4:59
  11. "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart" (Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb) – 4:30
  12. "Everytime We Say Goodbye" (Cole Porter) – 5:18
iTunes bonus tracks
  1. "For No One" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 2:58
  2. "I See Your Face Before Me" (Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz) – 5:04

Personnel

  • Liane Mautner – violin
  • Robert Maxwell – photography
  • Chris McMillan – hair stylist
  • Ed Meares – bass
  • Joe Meyer – French horn
  • Todd Miller – French horn
  • Sangwook "Sunny" Nam – mastering
  • Dan Neufeld – viola
  • John Newcott – release coordinator
  • Helen Nightengale – violin
  • Claus Ogerman – arranger, conductor
  • Sid Page – violin, concertmaster
  • Joel Pargman – violin
  • Katia Popov – violin
  • Barbara Porter – violin
  • Sue Raney – bass
  • Steve Richards – cello
  • Gil Romero – violin
  • Geri Rotella – alto flute, bass flute
  • Doug Sax – mastering
  • Al Schmitt – engineer, mixing
  • David Shostac – alto flute, bass flute
  • Dan Tobin Smith – cello
  • Tereza Stanislav – violin
  • Rudy Stein – cello
  • Shari Sutcliffe – contractor, project coordinator
  • Joey Tierne – wardrobe
  • Marda Todd – viola
  • Rick Todd – French horn
  • Doug Tornquist – tuba
  • Cecilia Tsan – cello
  • Mari Tsumura – violin
  • Josephina Vergara – violin
  • David F. Walther – viola
  • Brad Warnaar – French horn
  • Amy Wickman – violin
  • Anthony Wilson – guitar
  • Evan Wilson – viola
  • Robert Zimmitti – vibraphone

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (2009) Peak
position
Australian Albums Chart[14] 14
Austrian Albums Chart[15] 3
Belgian Albums Chart (Flanders)[16] 8
Belgian Albums Chart (Wallonia)[17] 7
Canadian Albums Chart[18] 2
Croatian Albums Chart[19] 40
Czech Albums Chart[20] 13
Danish Albums Chart[21] 16
Dutch Albums Chart[22] 15
European Top 100 Albums[23] 3
Finnish Albums Chart[24] 35
French Albums Chart[25] 3
German Albums Chart[26] 7
Greek Foreign Albums Chart[27] 2
Hungarian Albums Chart[28] 1
Italian Albums Chart[29] 8
Japanese Albums Chart[30] 21
Mexican Albums Chart[31] 24
New Zealand Albums Chart[32] 2
Norwegian Albums Chart[33] 2
Polish Albums Chart[34] 1
Portuguese Albums Chart[35] 1
Spanish Albums Chart[36] 3
Swedish Albums Chart[37] 18
Swiss Albums Chart[38] 10
UK Albums Chart[39] 11
US Billboard 200[18] 3
US Top Jazz Albums[18] 1

Certifications

Country Certification
Australia Gold[40]
France Gold[41]
Hungary Platinum[42]
New Zealand Gold[43]
Poland Platinum[44]
Portugal Platinum[45]
Spain Gold[46]

Year-end charts

Chart (2009) Position
Australian Jazz Albums Chart[47] 1
Belgian Albums Chart (Wallonia)[48] 67
Canadian Albums Chart[49] 21
European Top 100 Albums[50] 51
French Albums Chart[51] 61
Hungarian Albums Chart[52] 14
Polish Albums Chart[53] 35
US Billboard 200[54] 91
US Top Jazz Albums[55] 2

Decade-end charts

Chart (2000–09) Position
US Top Jazz Albums[13] 25

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