The girl in the other room

"The Girl in the Other Room is, without question, a jazz record in the same manner her other outings are. The fact that it isn't made up of musty and dusty "classics" may irk the narrow-minded and reactionary, but it doesn't change the fact that this bold recording is a jazz record made with care, creativity, and a wonderfully intimate aesthetic fueling its 12 songs. Produced by Tommy LiPuma and Krall, the non-original material ranges from the Mississippi-fueled jazzed-up blues of Mose Allison's "Stop This World" to contemporary songs that are reinvented in Krall's image ... These covers are striking ... They act as bridges to the startling, emotionally charged poetics in the material Krall has composed with [Elvis] Costello. Totaling half the album, this material is full of grief, darkness, and a tentative re-emergence from the shadows".

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