is this the way to market 'jazz'?

[alocispepraluger102]

LINK

"Diana Krall has collaborated with Academy Award winning costume designer, Colleen Atwood and acclaimed photographer, Mark Seliger to create a series of beautiful and striking images for Krall’s new album, “Glad Rag Doll”. They are inspired by Alfred Cheney Johnston’s pictures of the girls of the Ziegfeld Follies taken during the 1920s.

Said Krall, “If there was an era to which I could choose to go back in time, it would be the 1920s, just because of the whole wildness of it all.”"

Edited August 15, 2012 by alocispepraluger102

[sonnymax]

LINK

"Diana Krall has collaborated with Academy Award winning costume designer, Colleen Atwood and acclaimed photographer, Mark Seliger to create a series of beautiful and striking images for Krall's new album, "Glad Rag Doll". They are inspired by Alfred Cheney Johnston's pictures of the girls of the Ziegfeld Follies taken during the 1920s.

Said Krall, "If there was an era to which I could choose to go back in time, it would be the 1920s, just because of the whole wildness of it all.""

It has been, and continues to be, a way of marketing female artists. I'm interested to see if any board members strongly object to this approach, given the fact that the "sexiest album covers" thread is currently 242 pages long, with 9,669 replies and 425,089 views.

[JSngry]

[Lazaro Vega]

Caption contest? "Oh Elvis...take off that capo...."

She looks NOT like the mother of twins.

[robertoart]

Will her live shows follow this theme.

[cih]

Alfred Cheney Johnston’s pictures of the girls of the Ziegfeld Follies

Edited August 15, 2012 by cih

[Mark Stryker]

Whether or not this is the way to market jazz is not the relevant question: More like: Is this the way to market Diana Krall?

[CraigP]

Whether or not this is the way to market jazz is not the relevant question: More like: Is this the way to market Diana Krall?

Exactly. I've seen another shot from this session, and in neither one does she look comfortable. So to me it's coming across as awkward.

[cih]

She looks great - whether or not it's right for jazz, or her own career, I've no idea. But it's not pornography..

[robertoart]

She looks great - whether or not it's right for jazz, or her own career, I've no idea. But it's not pornography..

No, it's not pornography.

[cih]

what I mean is - there's no reason to believe she isn't happy with it, and as such - she looks great.

[jazzbo]

She's really not all that. I'd rather see them market her playing a piano passionately.

[JSngry]

You mean like Tori Amos does?

[robertoart]

what I mean is - there's no reason to believe she isn't happy with it, and as such - she looks great.

I didn't mean to be facetious. It just read funny thats all. She looks good to me too. It's her decision in the end.

[Larry Kart]

Well, it's good way to market Krall. You can send one of those Krall dolls up to my room.

[cih]

what I mean is - there's no reason to believe she isn't happy with it, and as such - she looks great.

I didn't mean to be facetious. It just read funny thats all. She looks good to me too. It's her decision in the end.

I know - I realised after I typed it... I'm not an aficionado or anything :eye:

[alocispepraluger102]

Well, it's good way to market Krall. You can send one of those Krall dolls up to my room.

:party:

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Krall's photo isn't a patch on Johnson's girls. Photographers of lightly clad ladies back in the day had a better eye for line - even for Betty Grable's legs.

MG

[jazzbo]

You mean like Tori Amos does?

Don't follow what or how Tori Amos does. I just mean feature her playing piano and/or singing, not as a dubious sex object.

[robertoart]

what I mean is - there's no reason to believe she isn't happy with it, and as such - she looks great.

I didn't mean to be facetious. It just read funny thats all. She looks good to me too. It's her decision in the end.

I know - I realised after I typed it... I'm not an aficionado or anything :eye:

Me too. I had to look up what you meant.

[alocispepraluger102]

Krall's photo isn't a patch on Johnson's girls. Photographers of lightly clad ladies back in the day had a better eye for line - even for Betty Grable's legs.

MG

:party:

[alocispepraluger102]

"The problem with Jazz is....that its Jazz. If you can fool people into thinking its not jazz then it can only improve sales."

jazz certainly has a stigma with the vast majority. why???

[sonnymax]

"The problem with Jazz is....that its Jazz. If you can fool people into thinking its not jazz then it can only improve sales."

whom are you quoting?

[alocispepraluger102]

"The problem with Jazz is....that its Jazz. If you can fool people into thinking its not jazz then it can only improve sales."

whom are you quoting?

2 younger fellows in another forum.

[Shawn]

Marketing jazz is a scary concept. A large number of people out there just think "music for old people" when they hear the term, many others think background music for dinner parties and restaurants. I was doing all the audio/visual for a wedding a few weeks ago and the client asked me to put on "some boring piano jazz while we eat". I played great stuff for them (Red Garland, Duke Pearson, Dave Brubeck, Ahmad Jamal) but they wouldn't have known the difference if I had used a generic production library disc instead.