Last week I received this CD as a gift. I think I finally know why I like Ms. Krall so much.

Besides the given that Ms. Krall is a wonderful Jazz pianist, and that she is very attractive, what I think is her real talent, is that she delivers on the emotion of a song so well that I feel that as she is singing, it is meant just for me, with a touch of wit just below the surface, like you are sharing a private joke. I don't know if that was articulated well enough to make sense, but there you go.

As to this CD, it is wonderful! Case closed!

I can't say I've ever been blown away by Diana, but this album turned me off somewhat. Like many female singers of note - Jennifer Warnes, for instance - Diana's voice can be too strong, and in too many places here she doesn't restrain it. Perhaps she's a better jazz pianist than jazz singer. I do enjoy the instrumental portions of this album.

This CD is sensational!!!! I have most of the tracks on other CDs of hers, but this is the very best. She sings with more conviction and confidence. Her vocals are so much 'fuller'than the orginals. Her instrumentals have more detail ..... sound is terrific. It is a wonderful tape to own if you know her music or not! I highly recommend it and am purchasing it for close friends who enjoy her talent and the soft jazz sound!!

Dear John: Letters From a Fan in New York City: An Interactive Book Diana Krall, you got me through my ups and downs with style. This is her best CD, in my opinion. I just recently saw her live in concert, and most of the songs (but not all) were in the concert. This is quintessential Diana Krall. A must-have CD for all her fans. Trust me.

....this one would get them. I've written a couple of other five star reviews of Diana's records, and talked about the great material, and beautifully seductive voice. I even discussed the [limited] commercial value of sexy album jackets. It's all true.....

....but this trumps it. Diana in the studio is fabulous, but Diana live, connecting with the audience and her band, goes way beyond that. You can feel the magic. Some singers live don't measure up [no names]. Others, like our dear Carly Simon, have to overcome massive stage fright. [Carly has only one live album, great as it is]... I have no idea how much stage fright Diana has [and stage fright is real; been there, done that. I'm lucky that I actually enjoy the feeling]. Some fortunate singers are actually improved by a real audience. Whatever Diana's feelings, she gives the audience [and us] her all. I've not heard Diana in person, but on this recording we can get the electricity of a special experience.

Diana Krall is a treasure in earthen vessel....a beautiful girl, with a voice for the ages. If you're not familiar with her music, I'm sorry. If you only know her studio recordings, you've GOT to hear this.

Hoppin', jazzy live performance -- my favorite Diana Krall CD.

shush shuh shuh shuh sound that new cordoroy pants make? Well that's what Krall sounds like wiht her sibilant "s". Is she singing through false teeth?

For those reviewers trying to compare Diana Krall to people like Sarah Vaughn... forget it!!! She's not Vladamir Horowitz or the Pope either!!! To give her a low rating based on that is absurd.

This is a very very good Jazz band and Diana Krall swings. She plays well and she does an incredible amount with the voice that the maker gave here. The album is very enjoyable to me and it's a good place to start if you want to hear Diana Krall.

Is she great? That question is so subjective and who cares anyway. One reviewer suggested that calling her great was disrespectful to the great Jazz singers. Popular singers like Diana bring attention to Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughn and Sinatra etc... People start with Diana and move backward from there... 5 stars from this reviewer!!!

Diana Krall is amazing no matter whether she's live or in studio recording. This is her first live album and is based on a lot of jazz standards. What I like is this has the energy of a live album, but someone has engineered most of the audience sussurus out.

I do enjoy Ms. Krall's singing but for me it's the incredible interplay between the musicians (including Krall's piano) the merits the 5 stars. I acually have the DVD which I highly recommend. Anthony Wilson not only plays brillantly but gets the best guitar tone of any other live recording I've heard. Jeff Hamilton and John Clayton are tight and telepathic - pure genuis in rhythm. Both Claus Ogerman and Allan Broadbent offer great arrangements and work the Orchestra deftly. And Diana sings. The production is perfect. This could not be any better.

1st let me start by saying I love Diana Krall. I've jumped through hoops to see her, watched all of her TV appearances and own all the cd's & dvd's. However I saw NOTHING different about this one than the Live From Paris edition. Except the final song. For $20 more, I thought there would be more. However it is still a fabulous collection of music. One for car & one for home or work . Did I get the correct CD?

Listen to Diana. Take out of CD player. Put in Ella....light a cigar and sip some brandy. Do not put back this back into CD player unless you need to sleep. Good Band...Poor styling.

What a great recording, stylish with a lot of class. This is one of the cleanest live recordings I've heard in a while, every instrument can be heard clearly and the arrangements are superb. Diana Krall's talent goes without saying or in this case, I will say, EXTRAORDINARY and Totaly Delightful.
Any old Jazz lounge hounds and ladies get your hands on this album, it not only waxes nostalgic with style, it will make you want to fall in love all over again.

Buy it. Now. Stop reading.


Are you still reading???? Okay, so I'll tell you my reason why. Reason(s) why. 5.1 sound. DTS. Different (some versions better to my ears/psyche) than the CD. Flavor. Beautiful production. Did I mention DTS - you gotta hear this in DTS. And she and her band deserve and have earned every penny you could spend on her (gratuitously inciting flaming).

I am just hoping that she will give us the opportunity to have DVD's covering her 'Girl in the Other Room' and her 'From This Moment On'.

I should start this review by saying that I am not a jazz fan. I like a little bit every now and then, but I could never build a huge jazz collection. I listen to rock and other popular music-- everything from the Beatles to the Clash to the Red Hot Chili Peppers to Tori Amos. However, I came across this Diana Krall CD when I became interested in jazz music thanks to Joni Mitchell. Joni's albums of the '70s are heavily influenced by jazz. I loved them all, so I began looking for other female vocal jazz performers. It was in this way that I stumbled upon Diana Krall's "Live in Paris."

I love this album. For a long time, I only listened to it occasionally and as background music (as other reviewers have described it.) However, one evening I sat down to really listen to the album and discovered that it is a veritable treasure trove of excellent music. I was captured by Diana's unique vocal style. It was beautiful, plaintive and very different from many other female vocalists I have come across. Her band was absolutely wonderful--full of energy during songs like "I Love Being Here with You" and slinking with sexuality and grit during songs like "I've Got You Under My Skin." I'm not typically a fan of "standards" such as these, but this album has enchanted me. I listen to it often in a wide variety of moods. It has become something of a security blanket for me. I encourage everyone, from jazz purists to rock fans like myself, to pick up a copy and listen to it as MUSIC and not as background noise. You will not be disappointed.

I'm not sure whether to love Diana Krall for her singing or her piano playing, so I guess it'll just have to be both. Her piano playing is smooth as silk, yet very much alive, both when it's out front, as on "'Deed I Do" and "Devil May Care," and when it's subtely woven into the background, as on "The Look of Love." And her voice? Appropriately sultry and tempting on the slower songs, full of life and mischief on the more upbeat songs.

Note that the selections on this album are definitely on the classic pop side of the jazz spectrum, but then you know that if you looked at the song list at all. Thus, if you're a jazz snob -- and I say that not as an insult, but because you wear the title as a badge of honor -- this may not be the album for you. But if you enjoy Gershwin, Cole Porter, Harold Arlen, and some Burt Bacharach tunes performed by a masterful singer and pianist, you'll dig this album in a big way. My favorite song here, as if the review's title wasn't enough of a hint, is "I've Got You Under My Skin."

I should also note that while this is a live album, I was pleased to find that neither the audience nor Krall's brief interactions with it ever interfere with the music. I only mention this because live album producers sometimes put such emphasis on the "live" part that it's hard to enjoy the songs you love. Such is not the case here -- the atmosphere and audience add a richness that complements Krall's performance nicely.

Overall, I highly recommend this charming, engaging, and quietly fun album.

A big international hit, this cd works that boring crossover magic for audiences that usually don't listen to jazz. Don't get me wrong, this is not bad music (for instance, it's much better than Norah Jones' country-pop-jazz), but it's not satisfactory for jazz purists. It's good background music.

As a reviewer in an Italian jazz magazine inteligently observed -if you like girls singing while playing piano, you'll probably like this album. Ofcourse, Ms Krall is quite tallented and it shows at some of the songs. But she came along at time when female jazz performers can make some money by making some consessions to popular taste...

If Ella, Billie, Sarah or Satchmo recorded so much commercial junk, if even Gillespie's big band attempted to record rock and roll, why shouldn't Ms Krall record songs by some of the Billy Joels of the pop-world?

This album really flows and swings. Very enjoyable. I am not thrilled about the last two songs. The Billy Joel song is OK. Not sure about the other one. Still, the live songs are just great. I heard this CD before any of her other CDs. I really like this one better than the studio CDs - not to say that the studio ones are in any way bad. This one is just really good.

Title says it all. She's good and I'm a fan. And this is her best release to this point and subsequent. Warm, quiet swing, and terrific side men. A bit more piano work displayed here on several tracks. Performance nearly identical also available on DVD. Recommend both. Doesn't get any better.

I absolutely love this CD and I am so glad I bought it. I first heard this CD when dogsitting for a family I know socially. The father of the family was really into Jazz and "Live in Paris" was my first attempt at listening to his collection. I was instantly impressed with the songs on this CD and found myself addicted to Diana Krall's rendition of "Let's fall in love." In fact, I would like to say I bought the CD for this song alone but there are other musical treasures within this CD.
I don't believe I will see her play anytime soon but it's nice to know that I can hear her play Live in my living room anytime.

I was disappointed in this particular CD because I felt that, instead of amplifying the Diana Krall experience, it just pandered to the "I'm on tour so it has to sound different" school of thought. Her CDs/voice are always an intimate journey into jazz but this CD found me, even after numerous chances, fast forwarding to see if the next one was better. I love Diana Krall and this CD is fine but it is not her best work, by far.

I'm not a huge fan of jazz or the blues but this album really does it for me. Diana Krall's voice is deep, smooth and full of bass. Her voice fills your speakers and the room in a way that simply emits atmosphere. Her band seems very tight and professional as they really serve as a perfect backdrop to Krall's abilities and talents. The set list is good mixture of different tempos and textures and offers quite a bit of variety.

This is one of those types of CD's that I would always hear in coffee shops and really like, but knowing nothing of thier existence, wouldn't even know where to begin when purchasing. This CD is really great to listen to reading a book on a rainy day. It reminds me of Sunday mornings, hardwood floos, and breakfeast in diners but I'm not really sure why.

Bottom Line: A great pickup for those who aren't familiar with this type of music. Very friendly jazz. I would imagine regular this is old hat for seasoned jazz and Krall fans.

I ordered this CD after seeing all of the glowing reviews here and was really disappointed. I love the sound of Diana Krall's voice but there is far less of it on this CD than I would expect. Many of the songs have more instrumental solos than there is singing. Long instrumental solos then lead to applause that is expected on a live recording but not over top of Diana singing. Overall a disappointment, I like to listen to any great instrumental but I bought this as "Diana Krall Live" In Paris not the orchestra.

Music from this bride of Elvis Costello is absolutely enthralling. It is passionate, lovely and great musicianship! :) Through my public library in Sheboygan I have discovered the artistry of Ms. Krall and am thankful for it! :)

"Live" albums kind of feels like a cheapened concert experience (Why go for that when you can get the real thing?). But I really enjoyed this album. Her voice sounds rich and the instrumentations are really done well. Considering this was my first real listen to a Diana Krall album (a live one at that), I was very impressed. Most of the songs I've already heard other versions of, but Krall brings a fresh approach that never bored me. I will check out her other albums.

I really enjoy my Dianna Krall, live in paris CD. However, the CD came with some scratches in it and in one of my CD players, some of the songs have "clicking" noises and in my car CD two of the songs skips.
I wish I could either send mine back or get another one.
Jake Susek

I ordered three of Krall's albums (including this one) and still fail to understand where the magic is in her voice. The description so many others have given as "sultry" just isn't apparent here. This aside, the true value here is the music. Darn she is a fantastic jazz pianist, and her bandmates complement her every drop of the hammer.

I saw Diana Krall on the same European tour at London's Royal Albert Hall, so was looking forward to listening to this. I purchased this CD a few weeks ago and yesterday put it away on the CD rack for the first time. However, unlike a lot of other recent purchases, I know this CD will be coming off the shelve many many times in the future.

Put simply, Diana Krall is a highly effective song interpreter, both in her singing and her playing. I was a little concerned when looking at the song list and the number of pop songs on it - five of the 12 songs here. I needn't have been. It takes guts to take really well known pop songs and give them jazz arrangements. It takes musical brilliance to do so this successfully. Her interpretation of Bacharach's "The Look Of Love" is stunning. When she sings "I can hardly wait to hold you..." the longing in her voice is passionate without a hint of melodrama. I have never heard this song performed this beautifully. Joni Mitchell's original version of "A Case Of You" was brilliant, one of the best songs on Blue, an acknowledged classic. Yet fellow Canadian Krall reinterprets the song with great success offering a moving tribute to her native land. I'm not a big fan of Billy Joel's "Just The Way You Are", possibly because it's just been overplayed, but Krall's version (the only studio track) is upbeat and magnificent.

The CD gets off to a great start with the jumping "I Love Being Here With You" which showcases Diana and her band in top form and obviously loving every minute of what they're doing. There is that feeling of a band just being "on" that's rarely captured in studio recordings. Most of the songs have extended instrumental breaks and Ms. Krall really gets the opportunity to show off her chops, as does guitarist John Pisano whose playing is excellent throughout.

Let's be real, if you're preferred style of jazz is avant garde or free jazz, this isn't for you. However vocal jazz is a legitimate genre and there are few albums in the genre that offer such an irresistable listening experience from start to finish.

Let it be said that I AM a Diana Krall fan. Of all her albums, this is an essential must-have for anyone who likes jazz or loves Diana Krall. I agree that some of Ms. Krall's albums have been over produced and over orchestrated (namely The Look of Love - what's with all the bossa novas anyway?). But this album is where Ms. Krall shines. I mean REALLY shines! I can't help but tap my foot, sing along and wish to god that I could play piano when I listen to this CD.

It doesn't get any better than "A Case of You", "Maybe You'll Be There" and "I Love Being Here With You". My only wish would be that "Do It Again", "All or Nothing At All" and "I Don't Know Enough About You" had been included on the CD like they had on the DVD... which I also highly recommend.

I steadfastly refused to jump on the Diana Krall bandwagon. I tried and enjoyed a number of the other wave of female jazz/pop singers. I really liked a lot of that stuff. And I thought I was avoiding a middle-of-the-road crowd favorite without much to offer. As is so often the case I WAS WRONG AND I AM SORRY. Live In Paris is magnificent. That voice, that confidence, that attitude - it's all good. The only thing potentially better would be to actually be in Paris at a Diana Krall concert. Enjoy!

One of music's most-gifted vocalists/pianists, the beautiful Diana Krall shows more than just her pretty face in everything she performs. Sharp delivery on the 88's, and velvet vocals, are the trademark of the Canadian-born songstress, and to hear her is to reach a higher plane in music appreciation. I have all her CD's, and each one tops the previous. She reminds you of Peggy Lee, Jeri Southern, Julie London, and others, but mostly she sounds like Diana Krall, and that's some sound. If you've heard her before, you know what I mean. If you've never heard her, welcome to the planet Earth. Buy her CD's. You'll never be sorry.

This was my first Diana Krall album that i've purchased and I'm sure won't be the last. I bought it on a whim because I recognized her from a guest appearance with Elmo on Sesame Street. =)

Ms Krall's voice is magical. Soothing and warm.

Unlike some other reviewers, I can't go into arrangement, production, and the like.

But if you want to think cozy warm romantic thoughts, curl up in front of the fire and just relax and listen, than this is definitely the choice for you! Sit back with a loved one, or on your own and let Ms. Krall's magical brandy smooth and whiskey warmed voice take you away.

With the right band, arrangements, and producer, Krall could have been an excellent jazz singer, and on her earlier discs, she made strides in that direction. Apparently, however, Tommy Lipuma, her producer, has convinced her that success is more important than musical worth, and this disc is an illustration of what happens when a musician strives to be a pop star. Stock covers of "Just the way you are" and "The Look of Love" just don't fit with the other songs on the record, and were likely put there just for airplay or to pander to a boomer audience without any jazz knowledge. In addition, her band has little jazz feel or swing on this record. Example: The guitar solos by Anthony Wilson - he runs out of ideas after a couple of bars and ends up noodling meaninglessly for the rest of his solos - or the brush work by Jeff Hamilton, which really doesn't swing.

A jazz singer doesn't have to take a song at face value and cover it like a prom band - listen and watch Carmen McRae sing "Evergreen" and "With One More Look at You" on her live DVD (available on Amazon) at age 64 with a trio behind her and you'll see what I mean.

Unlike some of the other reviewers I loved the "new" sultry, Diana and her offerings. This, however, is probably much closer to the "true" Diana Krall than some of those offerings. Unlike the current crop of rap "stars" (making millions with their celebration of poverty), artists like Diana Krall,Jane Monheit, Tierney Sutton and Cheryl Bentyne actually KNOW the music - both theory and performance.

Krall, in addition to being a fine pianist and a top-of-the-line vocalist is also actively involved in arrangment and composition (as are the others mentioned above). This performance is one of the best, carrying that atmosphere and sense of presence that only a live outing can do. Once again, the melding of her voice and piano with the band says it all- arrangements are crips and never "wandering", her rather odd intonation is near perfect.

The album improves on repeated listenings as all good recordings do.

I bought "Girl in the Other Room" and did not care for that depressing album at all. But when a friend played this for me, I could not believe it was the same singer. This is an amazing album, full of swing, sass, life and great orchestration, everything the other album is not. I am going to have to listen to her other previous albums now. This one was wonderful, I hope there is more from this singer like this!