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Diana Krall - Live in Paris

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If you're expecting the same arrangements as heard on the Diana Krall: Live in Paris DVD or CD, you'll be most disappointed as I was. This Hal Leonard publication includes Hal Leonard arrangements of the tunes from Diana's live concert. Nope, nothing by Claus Ogerman in here. I don't even know if they're in the same key as from the concert. I already have some of these exact same arrangements in other books of standards for piano. If you want original transcriptions of pieces performed by Diana Krall in Paris, this is nice. If you want Diana's version of Joni Mitchell's "A Case of You" or Diana's version of anything for that matter, this is not it.

The songs from two books on Diana Krall from Hal-Leonard do not represent the actual recordings. You will be disappointed. To get the real thing go to www.musicroom.com and search Diana Krall. You should find two song books called The Collection and The Collection Vol 2. Both contain faithful representation of her recording with the most beautiful and accurate chords!

The cover, the graphic design, the general presentation of this book will make you believe that you are buying the original (and beautiful) arrangements of Diana Krall's CD. Don't be mislead. The arrangements in this book are no different from the ones you find in the Real Book, which also contains other hundreds of songs. The guitar parts are poorly written and, in some cases, definitely wrong. A case of misleading advertisement.

Price is cheap compared to other Diana Krall scores.
But even at this price it's not a good deal.
These bear ZERO resemblance to Diana Krall's interpretation
(eg. Maybe you'll be there, A case of you)
but at the same time they are NOT lead sheets.
So you'd have to work hard editing them to make them useful if at all.
Amazon PLEASE start importing the British publication of Diana Krall's music.