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SUMMERTIME
LOUIS ARMSTRONG & EELA FITZEGERALD
SONGWRITERS: Dorothy Heyward; DuBose; George Gershwin & Ira Gershwin
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: PORGY & BESS
LABEL: VERVE
GENRE: JAZZ
YEAR: 1959
 
       Louis Daniel Armstrong(August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed "Satchmo", "Satch", and "Pops", was an American trumpeter and vocalist. He was among the most influential figures in jazz. His career spanned five decades and several eras in the history of jazz. He received numerous accolades including the Grammy Award for Best Male Vocal Performance for Hello, Dolly! in 1965, as well as a posthumous win for the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1972, and the induction into the National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame in 2017
       Ella Jane Fitzgerald(April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996) was an American jazz singer, sometimes referred to as the "First Lady of Song", "Queen of Jazz", and "Lady Ella". She was noted for her purity of tone, impeccable diction, phrasing, timing, intonation, and a "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her scat singing.
       Porgy and Bess is a studio album by jazz vocalist and trumpeter Louis Armstrong and singer Ella Fitzgerald, released on Verve Records in 1959. The third and final of the pair's albums for the label, it is a suite of selections from the George Gershwin opera Porgy and Bess. Orchestral arrangements are by Russell Garcia, who had previously arranged the 1956 jazz vocal recording The Complete Porgy and Bess.

Ella:
Summertime when the livin' is easy
Fish are jumpin and the cotton is high
You're daddy's rich and your ma is good lookin'
So hush little baby, don't you cry
 
Louis:
One of thses mornings you gonna rise up singing
Oh you spead your wings and you take to the skies
But till that morning, ain't nothin' can harm you
Yea with Daddy and Mommy standin' by
 
Ella:
Summertime when the livin' is easy
Fish are jumpin and the cotton is high.
You're daddy's rich and your ma is good lookin'
So hush little baby, don't you cry.

SWEET LORRAINE

NAT KING COLE
SONGWRITERS: CLIFFORD BURWELL & MITCHELL PARISH
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: SWEET LORRAINE
LABEL: CLASSIC JAZZ
GENRE: JAZZ
YEAR: 1992
 
          Nathaniel Adams Coles(March 17, 1919 – February 15, 1965), known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an American singer, jazz pianist, and actor. Cole's career as a jazz and pop vocalist started in the late 1930s and spanned almost three decades where he found success and recorded over 100 songs that became hits on the pop charts. He received numerous accolades including a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame(1960) and a Special Achievement Golden Globe Award. Posthumously, Cole has received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award(1990), along with the Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award(1992) and has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame(2000), and the National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame(2020).
          Cole started his career as a jazz pianist in the late 1930s, where he formed The King Cole Trio which became the top-selling group (and the only black act) on Capitol Records in the 1940s. His trio was the model for small jazz ensembles that followed. Starting in 1950 he transitioned to become a solo singer billed as Nat King Cole. Despite achieving mainstream success, during his career he faced intense racial discrimination. While not a major vocal public figure in the civil rights movement, Cole was a member of his local NAACP branch and participated in the 1963 March on Washington. He regularly performed for civil rights organizations. From 1956 to 1957, he hosted the NBC variety series The Nat King Cole Show, which became the first nationally broadcast television show hosted by an African American.
     Some of his most notable singles include "Unforgettable", "Smile", "L-O-V-E", "Let There Be Love", "Mona Lisa", "Autumn Leaves", "Stardust", "Straighten Up and Fly Right", "The Very Thought of You", "For Sentimental Reasons", "Embraceable You" and "Almost Like Being in Love". He is known for his Christmas album The Magic of Christmas(1960) which included "The Christmas Song"; in 1999 it was named by Rolling Stone as one of the greatest Christmas albums of all time. He was the father of singer Natalie Cole(1950–2015), who covered her father's songs in the 1991 album Unforgettable... with Love.
I've just found joy
I'm as happy as a baby boy
With another brand new choo-choo toy
When I met my sweet Lorraine, Lorraine, Lorraine
 
She's got a pair of eyes
That are brighter than the summer sky
When you see them, you'll realize
Why I love my sweet Lorraine
 
Now when it's rainin', I don't miss the sun
Because it's in my baby's smile
And to think that I'm the lucky one
That will lead her down the aisle
 
Each night I pray
That no one will steal her heart away
I can't wait until that lucky day
When I marry sweet Lorraine
 
Now when it's rainin', I don't miss the sun
Because it's in my baby's smile
And to think that I'm the lucky one
That will lead her down the aisle
 
Each night I pray
That no one will steal her heart away
I can't wait until that lucky day
When I marry sweet Lorraine.

IN A SENTIMENTAL MOOD

JOHN COLTRANE
SONGWRITERS: DUKE ELLINGTON; IRVING MILLS & MANNY KURTZ
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: COLTRANE FOR LOVERS
LABEL: ATLANTIC
GENRE: JAZZ
YEAR: 2001
 
          John William Coltrane (Hamlet, September 23, 1926 - New York, July 17, 1967) was an American jazz saxophonist and composer, having performed mainly during the fifties and sixties. Commonly considered by specialized critics as the greatest jazz tenor sax and one of the greatest jazz musicians and composers of all time. His influence in the world of music goes beyond the boundaries of Jazz, ranging from Rock to Classical Music.
        Born in North Carolina, the grandson of an evangelical minister, John Coltrane grew up in High Point and New Jersey in a time of severe racial segregation in the mid-twenties, having had a poor childhood, like most black children of that time in his country. His interest in music started due to his father who played several musical instruments and who encouraged him to study music. During his adolescence, Coltrane lost several relatives, such as his aunt, grandfather and father. These losses would mark him for his entire life.
          Coltrane began his career playing in various big bands after the end of World War II. He played with several jazz giants such as Dizzy Gillespie and Paul Chambers (later he would play with him again in the Miles Davis quintet-sextet).
        From 1955 to 1960 he was part of Miles Davis' historic quintet, having participated in memorable albums such as Cookin', Relaxin', Steamin', 'Round About Midnight and Workin', all from 1956. The following year he recorded his first albums as leader, with Blue Train reaching greater prominence in the jazz scene. This was his first major phase as a musician, although it was a very difficult period in his personal life, due to an addiction to heroin, acquired in the late forties. This was the reason why Miles Davis fired him at the end of 1956. In 1957 he was hired by the great pianist Thelonious Monk and recorded a few albums with him, Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane being the most recognized.
       In 1958, Coltrane was rehired by Miles Davis starting his great phase as a sideman. In the coming years, he would record two albums that would go down in Jazz History:
              * Milestones (1958), a great Cool Jazz album.
        * Kind of Blue (1959), the iconic album of Cool Jazz.
       The Miles Davis sextet, in addition to John Coltrane, had two other great jazz musicians: the famous pianist Bill Evans and the great bassist Paul Chambers. This album was one of the biggest hits in the history of the genre.
       In 1960, after leaving Miles' group, Coltrane began a new phase, leading a quartet with McCoy Tyner on piano, Jimmy Garrison on double bass and Elvin Jones on drums, and began a bold and unprecedented exploration of jazz sound space. Coltrane developed an absolutely unique style, where the so-called sheets of sound (sheets or layers of sound) predominated, which were composed of long phrases of fast notes played in legato. Coltrane embarks on a radicalization of harmony that takes him to the brink of atonality. It also fragments and deconstructs the themes, leaving them almost unrecognizable under a jam of tortured phrases. Coltrane's quartet production between 1960 and 1965 is a milestone in jazz history, comparable to Miles' quintet. Coltrane's several, very long and impressive versions of My Favorite Things, Rodgers and Hammerstein's apparently banal waltz, are anthological. In 1965 the quartet creates what is unanimously considered their masterpiece, the four-movement suite A Love Supreme.
         Although coming from hard bop, Coltrane from 1955 to 1965 could already be considered in some sense a forerunner of free jazz. However, in 1965, his connection with the avant-garde became even more direct, when he joined free musicians such as drummer Rashied Ali, saxtenorists Archie Shepp and Pharoah Sanders, among others. His wife, pianist Alice Coltrane, also accompanies him in this new, daring and short phase. The disc Ascension is a masterpiece of that period, already detached from tonal harmony. Quite religious, Coltrane imbued his works from 1965-1967 with a strong religious and mystical content. He died suddenly and prematurely in 1967 at the age of 40 from liver cancer. After his death, a large amount of unpublished recordings were located and released, allowing the public to better assess how monumental his work is.
         "In a Sentimental Mood" is a jazz composition by Duke Ellington. He composed the piece in 1935 and recorded it with his orchestra during the same year. so the song was credited to all three. Other popular versions in 1935/36 were by Benny Goodman and by Mills Blue Rhythm Band.
In A Sentimental Mood
I can see the stars come thru my room
While your loving attitude
Is like a flame that lights the gloom
On the wings of ev'ry kiss
Drift a melody so strange and sweet
In this sentimental bliss you make my
Paradise complete
Rose pearls seem to fall
It's all like a dream to call you mine
My heart's lighter thing
Since you made me this night a thing divine
In A Sentimental Mood
I'm within a world so heavenly
For I never dreamt
That you'd be loving sentimental me
In A Sentimental Mood
I can see the stars come thru my room
While your loving attitude
Is like a flame that lights the gloom
On the wings of ev'ry kiss
Drift a melody so strange and sweet
In this sentimental bliss you make my
Paradise complete
Rose pearls seem to fall
It's all like a dream to call you mine
My heart's lighter thing
Since you made me this night a thing divine
In A Sentimental Mood
I'm within a world so heavenly
For I never dreamt
That you'd be loving sentimental me.

SAKTA VI GÅ GENOM STAN

MONICA ZETTERLUND
SONGWRITERS: FRED E. AHLERT
TRANSELATED BY: BEPPE WOLGERS
COUNTRY: SWEDEN
ALBUM: AHH! MONICA!
LABEL: PHILIPS RECORDS
GENRE: JAZZ
YEAR: 1962
 
       Monica Zetterlund(born Eva Monica Nilsson; 20 September 1937 – 12 May 2005) was a Swedish jazz singer and actress. Through her lifetime, she starred in over 10 Swedish film productions and recorded over 20 studio albums. She gained international fame through her collaborative album with Bill Evans, Waltz for Debby.
         Zetterlund began by learning the classic jazz songs from radio and records, initially not knowing the language and what they sang about in English. Her hit songs included "Sakta vi gå genom stan" (Swedish cover of "Walking My Baby Back Home"; in Swedish a tribute to Stockholm town), "Visa från Utanmyra", "Sista jäntan", "Trubbel", "Gröna små äpplen" ("Little Green Apples"), "Monicas vals" ("Waltz for Debby"), "Stick iväg, Jack!" ("Hit the Road Jack"), "Att angöra en brygga", "Var blev ni av", "Måne över Stureplan" (cover of Sting's "Moon Over Bourbon Street") and "Under vinrankan!", among many others.
         She also interpreted the works of such Swedish singer-songwriters as Evert Taube, Olle Adolphson and Povel Ramel, as well as international jazz musicians/songwriters. She worked with leading American players including Louis Armstrong, Bill Evans, Stan Getz, Steve Kuhn and Quincy Jones, and in the Scandinavian jazz world with people like Georg Riedel, Egil Johansen, Arne Domnérus, Svend Asmussen and Jan Johansson. Zetterlund and Hagge Geigert in 1967
       In 1964, she recorded the jazz album Waltz for Debby, featuring Bill Evans, a record she herself described and was the most proud of. Her professional skill was amply demonstrated in this album in performing the challenging Harold Arlen song, "So Long, Big Time".
Åh det är skönt när mitt Stockholm är grönt
sakta gå hem genom stan
En kyss sen går man sakta igen
sakta en tur genom stan
 
Åh det är natt och på avstånd hörs skratt
Och man går hem genom stan
En doft av hö från nån ljuv skärgårdsö
smyger sig tyst intill stan
 
Precis som din arm så lätt och så varm
känns sommarens vind mot min kind
Och natten står still den finns inte till
en tystnad en skugga en vind
 
Den är så kort och den glider tyst bort
när trastarna vakna i stan
Klockan är två hela himlen är blå
sakta vi går genom stan
 
Sakta hitåt ror en man i en båt
stannar och ser på en svan
Allt är tyst och jag tiger nyss kysst
sakta vi går genom stan
 
På Västerbron i den himmelska ron
en spårvagn går ensam och tom
Alla hus målar natten i ljus
hemligt går träden i blom
 
Här bor en miljon
säg hör de den ton som Stockholm nu spelar för dem
De far härifrån långt bort härifrån
men Stockholm det är ju vårt hem
 
Vart vi än går vet jag Stockholm är vår
när vi går hem genom stan
Här går vi med en tyst melodi
ensamma i hela stan
 
Så stannar vi till vid fåglarnas drill
vi känner en doft av viol
Och glada vi hör en jublande kör
då stiger en gnistrande sol
 
Åh det är skönt när mitt Stoclkholm är grönt
sakta en natt då i stan
En kyss sen börja vandra igen
sakta gå hem genom stan
sakta gå hem genom stan
sakta gå hem genom stan.

EVENING

TIN PAN
SONGWRITERS: MITCHELL PARISH & HARRY A. WHITE
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: THE HOME BARTENDER’S SONGBOOK
LABEL: TIN PAN
GENRE: JAZZ
YEAR: 2011
 
     Tin Pan Alley was a collection of music publishers and songwriters in New York City that dominated the popular music of the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It originally referred to a specific place: West 28th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues in the Flower District of Manhattan; a plaque (see below) on the sidewalk on 28th Street between Broadway and Sixth commemorates it.
      In 2019, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission took up the question of preserving five buildings on the north side of the street as a Tin Pan Alley Historic District. The agency designated five buildings (47–55 West 28th Street) individual landmarks on December 10, 2019, after a concerted effort by the "Save Tin Pan Alley" initiative of the 29th Street Neighborhood Association. Following successful protection of these landmarks, project director George Calderaro and other proponents formed the Tin Pan Alley American Popular Music Project to continue and commemorate the legacy of Tin Pan Alley with various advocacy and educational activities.
         On April 2, 2022, 28th Street between Broadway and 6th Avenue was officially co-named “Tin Pan Alley” by the City of New York in a celebration featuring NYC City Councilmember Erik Bottcher, Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine and representatives from the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission, the Flatiron/23rd Street Partnership and the Tin Pan Alley American Popular Music Project which advocated for the co-naming.
        The start of Tin Pan Alley is usually dated to about 1885, when a number of music publishers set up shop in the same district of Manhattan. The end of Tin Pan Alley is less clear cut. Some date it to the start of the Great Depression in the 1930s when the phonograph, radio, and motion pictures supplanted sheet music as the driving force of American popular music, while others consider Tin Pan Alley to have continued into the 1950s when earlier styles of music were upstaged by the rise of rock & roll, which was centered on the Brill Building. Brill Building songwriter Neil Sedaka described his employer as being a natural outgrowth of Tin Pan Alley, in that the older songwriters were still employed in Tin Pan Alley firms while younger songwriters such as Sedaka found work at the Brill Building.
Evening, every night you come and you find me
Why must you always remind me, that my baby's gone
Evening, you got me deeper in your power
Every minute seems like an hour
Since my baby's gone
Shadows fall upon the wall
That's the time I miss your kisses most of all
Even though I try, how can I go on
Oh evening, let me sleep 'til the glow of dawn is breaking
I don't care if I don't awaken
Since my baby's gone
Shadows fall upon the wall
That's the time I miss your kisses most of all
Even though I try, how can I go on
Oh evening, let me sleep 'til the glow of dawn is breaking
I don't care if I don't awaken
Since my baby's gone.

PLEASE DON’T STOP

RICHARD BONA
SONGWRITERS: JOHN STEPHENS & RICHARD BONA
COUNTRY: CAMEROON
ALBUM: TIKI
LABEL: EMARCY RECORDS
GENRE: JAZZ
YEAR: 2005
 
          Richard Bon(born 28 October 1967) is a Cameroon-born American multi-instrumentalist and singer.
             Bona Penda Nya Yuma Elolo was born in Minta, Cameroon, into a family of musicians, which enabled him to start learning music from a young age. His grandfather was a griot–a West African singer of praise and storyteller – and percussionist, as his mother was a singer. When he was four years old, Bona started to play the balafon. At the age of five, he began performing at his village church. Not being wealthy, Bona made many of his own instruments: including flutes and guitars (with cords strung over an old motorcycle tank).
          His talent was quickly noticed, and he was often invited to perform at festivals and ceremonies. Bona began learning to play the guitar at the age of 11, and in 1980, aged just 13, he assembled his first ensemble for a French jazz club in Douala. The owner befriended him and helped him discover jazz music, in particular that of Jaco Pastorius, which inspired Bona to switch his focus to the electric bass
      Tiki is the fourth solo studio album by Cameroonian jazz bassist and musician Richard Bona. It was released on October 2, 2005 through Universal Music France, and has charted in several countries.
          Susheela Raman, Mike Stern and Djavan made guest appearances on the album, and the 2006 edition of the record features a song "Please Don't Stop" with guest vocals by John Legend.
Oh, whoa
You're so smooth tryna keep my cool
But I can't help myself, you make me act the fool
Oh, sweet things you say, the sexy way you move
I get so excited baby, I don't know what to do
 
I really wanna be your only one, forget about the rest
Oh, why stop with good enough when you can have the best?
Oh, what I'm tryna say is won't you stay, I'll stick with you
Baby, don't stop doing what you do
 
Please don't stop
Don't stop loving me
Doing what you do (please don't stop)
'Cause honey, I know I can't stop loving you
(Please don't stop)
I'm such a lucky guy, got you next to me
Baby no, please don't go
Never ever have to leave
 
Oh, give me a chance (a chance)
A chance just to show (just to show)
You need to stick with me
I can be more than you know
I'll be your best of friend, Mexican
You'll hold me and you'll love me then
Baby, everything you need, you can find it in me
 
Don't stop loving me (please don't stop)
Don't stop loving me, doin' what you do
'Cause honey, I know I can't ever stop loving you
I'm such a lucky guy, got you next to me
Baby no, please don't go
You never ever have to leave, yeah
 
Yeah, yeah
Baby, don't stop
Don't stop
Don't stop.

DON’T WORRY BE HAPPY

BOBBY MCFERRIN
SONGWRITER: ROBERT MCFERRIN JR.
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: SIMPLE PLEASURES
LABEL: MANHATTAN RECORDS
GENRE: JAZZ
YEAR: 1988

SUGESTÃO DE MINHA VIZINHA DE FACEBOOK: CONSUELO MARITZA SOTOMAYOR – MUCHAS GRACIAS POR AYUDARME.
 
        Simple Pleasures is the fourth studio album by American singer and musician Bobby McFerrin, released in 1988 by Manhattan Records.
  The album was McFerrin's commercial breakthrough and contained the hit single "Don't Worry, Be Happy". The song was featured in the film Cocktail and peaked at Nº 1 for two weeks on the Billboard Hot 100. "Don't Worry, Be Happy" won the 1988 Grammy Awards for Song of the Year, Record of the Year, and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance.
      Simple Pleasures spent 55 weeks on the Billboard 200 in the U.S., peaking at Nº. 5. On September 26, 1988, the album was certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.
       The album features unaccompanied a cappella singing, with all parts performed exclusively by McFerrin via overdubbing
        Robert Keith McFerrin Jr.(born March 11, 1950) is an American folk and jazz singer. He is known for his vocal techniques, such as singing fluidly but with quick and considerable jumps in pitch—for example, sustaining a melody while also rapidly alternating with arpeggios and harmonies—as well as scat singing, polyphonic overtone singing, and improvisational vocal percussion. He is widely known for performing and recording regularly as an unaccompanied solo vocal artist. He has frequently collaborated with other artists from both the jazz and classical scenes.
        McFerrin's song "Don't Worry, Be Happy" was a Nº 1 U.S. pop hit in 1988 and won Song of the Year and Record of the Year honors at the 1989 Grammy Awards. McFerrin has also worked in collaboration with instrumentalists, including the pianists Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, and Joe Zawinul, the drummer Tony Williams, and the cellist Yo-Yo Ma.
       McFerrin was born in Manhattan, New York City, United States, the son of operatic baritone Robert McFerrin and singer Sara Copper. He attended Cathedral High School in Los Angeles, Cerritos College, University of Illinois Springfield(then known as Sangamon State University) and California State University, Sacramento.
        His mother Sara (Copper) McFerrin was a soloist and taught voice at Fullerton College in Southern California.
Here's a little song I wrote
You might want to sing it note for note
Don't worry, be happy
In every life we have some trouble
But when you worry, you make it double
Don't worry, be happy
Don't worry, be happy now
 
Don't worry
(Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh) Be happy
(Ooh-ooh-ooh) Don't worry, be happy
(Ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh) Don't worry
(Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh) Be happy
(Ooh-ooh-ooh) Don't worry, be happy
 
Ain't got no place to lay your head
Somebody came and took your bed
Don't worry, be happy
The landlord say your rent is late
He may have to litigate
Don't worry, be happy (look at me, I'm happy)
 
Don't worry
(Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh) Be happy
(Ooh-ooh-ooh) Hey I give you my phone number
When you worry, call me, I make you happy
(Ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh) Don't worry
(Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh) Be happy
(Ooh-ooh-ooh)
 
Ain't got no cash, ain't got no style
Ain't got no gal to make you smile
But don't worry, be happy
'Cause when you worry your face will frown
And that will bring everybody down
So don't worry, be happy
Don't worry, be happy now
 
Don't worry
(Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh) Be happy
(Ooh-ooh-ooh) Don't worry, be happy
(Ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh) Don't worry
(Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh) Be happy
(Ooh-ooh-ooh) Don't worry, be happy.
 
Now there is this song I wrote
I hope you learned it note for note, like good little children
Dn't worry, be happy
Now listen to what I said, in your life expect some trouble
But when you worry, you make it double
But don't worry, be happy, be happy now
 
Don't worry
(Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh) Be happy
(Ooh-ooh-ooh) Don't worry, be happy
(Ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh) Don't worry
(Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh) Be happy
(Ooh-ooh-ooh) Don't worry, be happy
(Ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh) don't worry, don't worry
(Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh) Don't do it, be happy
(Ooh-ooh-ooh) Put a smile in your face, don't bring everybody down like this
(Ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh) Don't worry
(Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh) It will soon pass, whatever it is
(Ooh-ooh-ooh) don't worry, be happy
(Ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh) I'm not worried
(Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh) I'm happy.

SORRY SEEMS TO BE THE HARDEST WORD

DIANA KRALL
SONGWRITERS:  JOHN ELTON & TAUPIN BERNIE
COUNTRY: CANADA
ALBUM: WALLFLOWER
LABEL: VERVE RECORDS
GENRE: JAZZ
YEAR: 2015
 
     Diana Jean Krall(born November 16, 1964) is a Canadian jazz pianist, and singer known for her contralto vocals. She has sold more than 15 million albums worldwide, including over six million in the US. On December 11, 2009, Billboard magazine named her the second greatest jazz artist of the decade (2000–2009), establishing her as one of the best-selling artists of her time.
       Krall is the only jazz singer to have had eight albums debuting at the top of the Billboard Jazz Albums. To date, she has won three Grammy Awards and eight Juno Awards. She has also earned nine gold, three platinum, and seven multi-platinum albums.
   Wallflower is the twelfth studio album by Canadian singer Diana Krall, released on February 3, 2015, by Verve Records. The album was produced by David Foster. The album's supporting tour, Wallflower World Tour, began in Boston on February 25, 2015.
       The album consists of cover songs of various pop and rock songs, the only previously unreleased track being "If I Take You Home Tonight" by Paul McCartney. He wrote the song for his album Kisses on the Bottom, in which he collaborated with Krall. Although the song did not make the cut for that album, Krall asked McCartney if she could record the song, and he gave his consent.
What have I got to do to make you love me?
What have I got to do to make you care?
What do I do when lightning strikes me?
And to wake to find that you're not there
 
What do I do to make you want me?
What have I got to do to be heard?
What do I say when it's all over?
And sorry seems to be the hardest word
 
It's sad, so sad
It's a sad, sad situation
And it's getting more and more absurd
 
It's sad, so sad
Why can't we talk it over?
Oh, it seems to me
That sorry seems to be the hardest word
 
It's sad, so sad
It's a sad, sad situation
And it's getting more and more absurd
 
It's sad, so sad
Why can't we talk it over?
Oh, it seems to me
That sorry seems to be the hardest word
 
What do I do to make you love me?
What have I got to do to be heard?
What do I do when lightning strikes me?
What have I got to do?
What have I got to do?
When sorry seems to be the hardest word. 

AUTUMN IN NEW YORK

DIANA KRALL
SONGWRITER: VERNON DUKE
COUNTRY: CANADA
ALBUM: THIS DREAM OF YOU
LABEL: VERVE RECORDS
GENRE: JAZZ
YEAR: 2020
 
      Diana Jean Krall (born November 16, 1964) is a Canadian jazz pianist, and singer known for her contralto vocals. She has sold more than 15 million albums worldwide, including over six million in the US. On December 11, 2009, Billboard magazine named her the second greatest jazz artist of the decade (2000–2009), establishing her as one of the best-selling artists of her time.
         Krall is the only jazz singer to have had eight albums debuting at the top of the Billboard Jazz Albums. To date, she has won three Grammy Awards and eight Juno Awards. She has also earned nine gold, three platinum, and seven multi-platinum albums.
           This Dream of You is the fifteenth studio album by Canadian singer Diana Krall, released on September 25, 2020, by Verve Records. The album spawned two singles released in August 2020.
        The album is named after Krall's rendition of the Bob Dylan song from his album Together Through Life(2009). The release is a collection of Krall's scores of studio recordings that she performed with her longtime producer Tommy LiPuma before his death in 2017. The dozen tracks was selected from over 30 recordings that the pair had laid down. The album was finished in May 2020 and produced by Krall herself. The "Autumn in New York" video was created to raise awareness for New York Cares, the largest volunteer organization in New York City founded in 1987.
Autumn in New York
Why does it seem so inviting?
Autumn in New York
It spells the thrill of first-nighting
Glittering crowds
And shimmering clouds
In canyons of steel
They're making me feel
I'm home
 
It's autumn in New York
That brings the promise of new love
Autumn in New York
Is often mingled with pain
Dreamers with empty hands
May sigh for exotic lands
It's autumn in New York
It's good to live it again
 
It's autumn in New York
That brings the promise of new love
Autumn in New York
Is often mingled with pain
Lovers that bless the dark
On benches in Central Park
It's autumn in New York
It's good to live it again.