Diana Krall & 'The Look Of Love' Arranger Claus Ogerman Reunite For 'Pretty Wild' 'Quiet Nights' (Out 3.31 From Verve)

New York, NY. (Top40 Charts/ Shore Fire Media) - When Diana Krall and arranger Claus Ogerman teamed up for the first time in 2001, the result was Krall's multi-platinum, chart-topping, GRAMMY-winning album 'The Look of Love.' The two have come together again for the first time since for Krall's new album 'Quiet Nights,' out 3.31 from Verve, and the powerhouse pairing is proving their mutual respect and admiration can still produce fantastic music.

Ogerman emerged out of semi-retirement to work on 'Quiet Nights,' eager to have another opportunity to collaborate with Krall. "I think Claus really fell in love with her the first time around," says Krall's longtime producer Tommy LiPuma, who introduced the two in 2000. And LiPuma also notes that Ogerman "still says that 'The Look of Love' was probably the best album that he had ever been involved with. So he's very conscious of what she is capable of doing."

In addition to his understanding of Krall's talent, Ogerman was a natural fit for the Brazilian-inspired 'Quiet Nights' as he arranged many of bossa nova's first wave of recordings, working with the likes of Jobim and Gilberto, as well as Frank Sinatra, Stan Getz and Bill Evans. But as Krall explains, he enjoyed taking a new approach to these much-loved songs for her latest record: "There was a lot of him saying, 'I've written these things a hundred times, now I'm gonna really do something crazy.' And some of the arrangements he did are pretty wild."

"The trust I have with Claus is complete," Krall says assuredly. "We met in New York, where I played him 25 tunes and from there we edited it down to 15. He wrote the arrangements and after that there was no editing, no changes."
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