Fans of Diana Krall's most recent solo album, her 2017 release Turn Up the Quiet, will be delighted to hear that the five-time Grammy-winning jazz pianist and vocalist has returned to these sessions – the final recordings she made with her great friend, mentor and long-time producer, Tommy LiPuma – to mine material for this equally impressive follow-up. Enveloped by a gorgeous, understated string arrangement courtesy of the talismanic Alan Broadbent, there's a special poignancy to the album's lead-off song, ‘But Beautiful,’ as it was the last song that Krall and LiPuma completed together before the latter's death, aged 80, in March 2017.

Broadbent also provides the string orchestration for another standout, ‘Autumn In New York’ – featuring guitarist Russell Malone and bassist Christian McBride – and provides the most simpatico piano accompaniment on two stripped back piano-vocal duets, ‘More Than You Know’ and ‘Don't Smoke In Bed’. Elsewhere, Krall is joined by her regular trio of John Clayton, Jeff Hamilton and Anthony Wilson on ‘That's All’ and ‘Almost Like Being In Love’, the tempos of which are perfectly judged. Krall's great gift of melancholy and emotional sincerity are heard to especially moving effect on the album's title track, Bob Dylan's song of lost love, ‘This Dream Of You’, which features the extended ensemble of guitarist Marc Ribot, the lonesome fiddle of Stuart Duncan, plus the rhythm section of bassist Tony Garnier and drummer Karriem Riggins. It's this ensemble who accompany Krall in a susurrating, sotto voce take on ‘How Deep Is The Ocean’, all meticulously engineered and mixed by Al Schmitt.