Diana Krall: The Girl In the Other Room [Dual Disc]

Diana Krall | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 8, 2007)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Dual Disc
• Label: Verve
• ASIN: B0006FFRVQ
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #174,344 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Stop This World

2. The Girl in the Other Room

3. Temptation

4. Almost Blue

5. I've Changed My Address

6. Love Me Like a Man

7. I'm Pulling Through

8. Black Crow

9. Narrow Daylight

10. Abandoned Masquerade

11. I'm Coming Through

12. Departure Bay

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Singer/pianist Diana Krall breaks new ground interpreting modern standards by Tom Waits, Mose Allison, and Joni Mitchell, as well as compositions by herself and new husband, Elvis Costello. Krall's piano-jazz cred comes through loudly and clearly on her Count Basie-styled version of the Bonnie Raitt staple "Love Me Like a Man" (written by folk-bluesman Chris Smither). But it's the collaborations with her spouse that unearth untapped emotional nuances of her velvet voice; many are reminiscent of Bill Evans's moody, impressionistic pieces. The title track, "Narrow Daylight," "Abandoned Masquerade," and "I’m Coming Through" all deal with love and loss. "Departure Bay," a picturesque ode to her hometown of Nanaimo, B.C., proves that this is the start of something big, and that two heads--and hearts--are better than one. --Eugene Holley Jr.

Product Description

GIRL IN THE OTHER ROOM - Dual Format Disk

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great performer, great format, May 17, 2005

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Jay L. Rudko (Pembroke Pines, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Diana Krall: The Girl In the Other Room (Audio CD)

Diana does it again! Her smoky-voiced vocals and superb piano playing make these songs jump out of the speakers, regardless of whether you play the CD or DVD-A side. "Temptation" is a great track to show this disc's capability to your friends and to get them hooked on Diana as well. In defense of the Dual Disc format, remember that it's still a work in progress. I had no problems playing this, or any other Dual Disc I've purchased, on any player. The warning given about the CD side stems from the fact that the CD data layer is closer to the lens than is a standard CD, and some players may not be able to focus in on it. Newer players should have no trouble. The DVD layer on this disc provides the album in both DVD-Audioadvanced resolution sound, as well as Dolby Digital 5.1 and LPCM stereo, and some music videos. The inclusion of Dolby Digital is welcome for the ability to allow those who do not have DVD-Audio players to still enjoy the full surround version. And it doesn't sound bad at all. I agree that ALL Dual Disc releases should include 5.1 surround sound (after all, this is the 21st century), and that MLP DVD-Audio should be required on all discs, as well as the Dolby Digital, or even DTS track. (Are you listening, Sony BMG?) This format is still coming together. Let's embrace it and give it the chance to grow.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good music, May 23, 2010

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L. Conrado Barajas Pedraza (Monterrey, NL, Mexico) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Diana Krall: The Girl In the Other Room (Audio CD)

Her music is amazing, the audio quality is very good, very clean, i would like to have 96khz 24bit audio, the dvd audio side is 48khz 24bit only but it's ok, it's better than CD.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars DVD-Audio won't play in Pioneer universal players (Now Fixed), September 1, 2006

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Allison (Bixby, OK United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Diana Krall: The Girl In the Other Room (Audio CD)

I have several DVD-Audio and SACD discs. On this one, the DVD-Audio tracks have no sound. They show to be playing, but I get no audio from multichannel or stereo playback. The Dolby Digital tracks play just fine, as do the music videos. My player is a Pioneer DV-563A and I have never had this problem before. Really a disappointment since I was so glad to see a Dualdisc with DVD-Audio content.

UPDATE: Took the disc up to Best Buy and tried to play it on several DVD-Audio players. The disc played fine on all of the Denon units, but refused to correctly play back on any Pioneer machine.

UPDATE 2: Pioneer has a firmware upgrade that resolves all playback issues with this disc, and their newer players don't have the issue mentioned above.