Yet Ms. Krall's latest album, "Glad Rag Doll, " shows that such definitions are now themselves out-dated.
As a preteen, Ms. Krall spent hours listening to her father's vast collection of 78-rpm records.
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Krall is one of the most highly acclaimed mainstream jazz vocalists to have emerged in recent years.
Maybe it's actually the ending of time that Ms. Krall has arrived at.
"Quiet Nights" debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 album charts last week, a career high for Krall.
The three young developers, John Boiles, Evan Krall and Yoni De Beule, showed the wacky video above at AngelHack.
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By comparison, Diana Krall is guilty as charged: possession of an illegal quantity of premeditation and forethought while singing jazz.
Ms. Krall's "Glad Rag Doll" consists mostly of songs so old that most listeners and reviewers don't even realize they're standards.
It would be "wholly inappropriate" for Congress to change drug safety law over Avandia, says Ronald Krall, Glaxo's chief medical officer.
In 1994, I witnessed a fledgling Ms. Krall recording a guest vocal on an album by alto saxophonist and arranger Benny Carter.
"There was something about turning 'Where or When' into a bossa nova that changes the feeling for me of the song, " Krall said.
In preparation for her new album, Ms. Krall selected 35 songs from her father's collection and gave sheet music to producer T Bone Burnett.
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The title also seems to refer to the cover shot: Ms. Krall in vintage lingerie, yet still clad more modestly than most contemporary pop stars.
Born in 1964, Ms. Krall grew up in British Columbia and today divides her time between Vancouver and New York with husband, Elvis Costello, and their children.
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Krall brought arranger and conductor Claus Ogerman on board.
What does Ms. Krall's father think of the album?
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Even though she is an honest woman now, the photos of Krall on her Web site have her wearing heels in bed and looking sweetly seductive, a marketing ploy she is reportedly not enthusiastic about.
"Glad Rag Doll, " right down to that Victoria's Secret cover, is instantly Ms. Krall's best album and proves not so much that "Everything Old Is New Again, " but that the concept of newness itself has lately become very old.
As one of a generation of "young lions" who came of age in the 1990s, McBride crosses easily from more traditional jazz forms into the fusion sounds of Weather Report, and pop touring and recording with Sting and Diana Krall.
Krall took the jazz world by the horns back in the mid-1990s, when her cool, understated approach to singing combined with her femme fatale looks and manner to make her the darling of audiences too young to remember names like Billie Holliday and Ella Fitzgerald.
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