By NYO Staff 5/07/01 12:00am

The Shape of Jazz to Come

Some time ago, when jazz music completely lost its relevance to the record-buying public, the recording industry decided that the best way to sell units to jazz music’s two remaining demographics (college juniors and party hostesses who need background music for dinner) was either by a) repackaging the seminal recordings of the jazz masters in Read More

By Joseph Hooper 8/02/99 12:00am

Return of the Big Band Goddess: Diana Krall’s Vanilla Pleasures

Diana Krall, 33, spent a childhood in small-town British Columbia buried in her father’s jazz record collection, watching black-and-white movies and presumably being shunned by her peer group. She’s transmuted all that into a glamorous retro cottage industry, in the course of the past seven years pumping out five albums mostly of Tin Pan Alley: Read More