The Very Best of Diana Krall

The Very Best of Diana Krall
Compilation album by Diana Krall
Released September 18, 2007
Recorded 1996-2006
Genre Jazz
Length 75:25
Label Verve
Producer Tommy LiPuma and Diana Krall
Diana Krall chronology

From This Moment On
(2006)		 The Very Best of Diana Krall
(2007)		 Quiet Nights
(2009)
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Allmusic [1]

The Very Best of Diana Krall is the tenth album by Canadian jazz pianist and vocalist Diana Krall, released in 2007 through Verve Records.

On the U.S. Billboard 200 chart, the album debuted at number 19, selling about 30,000 copies in its first week.[2]Billboard ranked the album at number 33 on the magazine's Top Jazz Albums of the Decade.

Track listing (Standard Edition)

  1. "'S Wonderful" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 4:26
  2. "Peel Me a Grape" (Dave Frishberg) - 5:50
  3. "Pick Yourself Up" (Dorothy Fields, Jerome Kern) – 3:01
  4. "Frim Fram Sauce" (Redd Evans, Joe Ricardel) – 5:01
  5. "You Go to My Head" (J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie) – 6:47
  6. "Let's Fall in Love" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 4:19
  7. "The Look of Love" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) – 4:41
  8. "East of the Sun (And West of the Moon)" [Live in Paris] (Brooks Bowman) – 5:46
  9. "I've Got You Under My Skin" (Cole Porter) – 6:09
  10. "All or Nothing at All" (Arthur Altman, Jack Lawrence) – 4:33
  11. "Only the Lonely" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn) – 4:16
  12. "Let's Face the Music and Dance" (Irving Berlin) – 5:17
  13. "The Heart of Saturday Night" (Tom Waits) - 4:06
  14. "Little Girl Blue" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 5:38
  15. "Fly Me to the Moon" [Live in Paris] (Bart Howard) - 5:44

DVD Videos (included with the Deluxe Edition)

  1. "Narrow Daylight"
  2. "Let's Face the Music and Dance" (Irving Berlin)
  3. "The Look of Love" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David)
  4. "Temptation"
  5. "Almost Blue" (Elvis Costello)
  6. "Abandoned Masquerade"
  7. "Fly Me to the Moon" (Bart Howard)
  8. "The Girl in the Other Room" (Diana Krall, Elvis Costello)
  9. "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?"

Charts and certifications

Charts

Album - Billboard

Year Chart Position
2006 The Billboard 200
19
2007 Canadian Albums Chart
6
2007 Top Jazz Albums
1

Certifications

Region Certification Sales/shipments
Brazil (ABPD)[3] Gold 30,000*
Poland (ZPAV)[4] Platinum 20,000*

*sales figures based on certification alone

Chart procession and succession

Preceded by
Call Me Irresponsible by Michael Bublé		 U.S. Billboard Top Jazz Albums number-one album
October 06, 2007 		Succeeded by
Trav'lin' Light by Queen Latifah

References

  1. ↑ Allmusic review
  2. ↑ Katie Hasty, "Reba Outmuscles Kanye, 50 To Score First No. 1", Billboard.com, September 26, 2007.
  3. ↑ "Brazilian album certifications – Diana Krall – The Very Best Of" (in Portuguese). Associação Brasileira dos Produtores de Discos.
  4. ↑ "Polish album certifications – Diana Krall – The Very Best Of" (in Polish). Polish Producers of Audio and Video (ZPAV).