Krall, Jones, or Some Other Popular Radio Jazz Quiz

Answer: Diana Krall

Many of Diana Krall's most popular releases in the late 1990s and the early 2000s were her interpretations of jazz and musical classics, and with her sixth album, "The Look of Love", appearing in 2001, she was pushed into a level of polish that got noticed. Despite this being an era of pop groups and dance hits on the radio, Krall went toe to toe on adult contemporary stations in North America.

"S'Wonderful", the first track on the disc, is a smooth interpretation of the "Funny Face" classic with Krall's voice backed by flutes, stand-up bass, and her piano. Krall would re-release the song in 2018 as part of her duet album, "Love Is Here to Stay", with Tony Bennett. The original song was a George and Ira Gershwin standard.

Answer: Diana Krall

Originally written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David for the 1967 James Bond parody "Casino Royale" (not to be confused with the Daniel Craig Bond film), "The Look of Love" has been performed and covered by numerous artists over the decades including Dusty Springfield (who sang the original) and Dionne Warwick. An Oscar nominee, it would go on to lose to "Talk to the Animals" from "Doctor Dolittle" (1967).

The song would become the namesake of Krall's sixth studio album wherein she would be accompanied by the London Symphony Orchestra on all instrumentation besides her own voice and her piano. The song would hit number twenty-two on the Billboard Adult Contemporary Chart in the United States, one of her highest-charting promotional singles altogether.

Answer: Diana Krall

While Krall's bread and butter has always been her arrangements of jazz classics, her seventh album release, "The Girl in the Other Room" (2004), was her first shot at original tracks. Written and composed (mostly) with her then-recent husband, Elvis Costello, it proved a successful venture, going double platinum in Canada and becoming one of the top-selling jazz albums of the decade. In the U.S., the disc would reach number four on the Billboard 200, a testament to the foothold that jazz was able to attain in pop culture at that moment.

The title track was amongst the more popular selections on the album. Interestingly, it never made an appearance on her 2007 greatest hits collection, "The Very Best of Diana Krall".

Answer: Diana Krall

Perhaps one of the few complaints that could be held for the jazz stylings of Diana Krall is her tendency to be too smooth. While jazz is often representative of a range of emotions, much of her works in the 1990s and 2000s were indicative of an emerging aesthetic that might be described as 'Starbucks music', played to suit a relaxed vibe with a mug of coffee in-hand.

"Peel Me a Grape" is a strong example of this, releasing in 1997 as part of her "Love Scenes" album. This track was originally written and composed by Dave Frishberg in 1962 and is, perhaps, one of Krall's more humorous selections. It would push "Love Scenes" to become Krall's first number one album on the Billboard US Traditional Jazz Albums chart and it would subsequently be included on "The Very Best of Diana Krall".

Answer: Norah Jones

Releasing in early 2002 to great critical acclaim, Norah Jones' "Don't Know Why" was a colossal success, winning a trio of Grammy Awards for the singer-songwriter. Then only twenty-three years old, Jones was a newcomer in the music scene (at least professionally, since her father was Ravi Shankar), but this track was a door-opener, appearing on international radio stations at such frequency that it would go multi-platinum.

It would reach number four on the Billboard US Adult Contemporary chart.

Answer: Norah Jones

The title track of Jones' debut album and the third single from the release, "Come Away With Me" was a sweeping, melancholic ballad that would top out at number twelve on the Billboard US Adult Alternative Airplay Chart. As a big picture track, it would be instrumental in helping push Jones' profile, at this time, into the stratosphere. While "Don't Know Why" would sweep the single track Grammy nominations, the greater album would win Album of the Year as well as Best Pop Vocal Album, a result of the crossover appeal where jazz and pop intersected in the early 2000s.

"Come Away With Me", the song, was written solely by Jones herself.

Answer: Norah Jones

Originally a deeper-cut track by Mark Dinning, released back in 1961, "Turn Me On" was picked up by Jones and subsequently became her fourth single from "Come Away With Me", finding new life as a soulful piano blues number. Perhaps the perfect track for a tender moment in a romantic film (or even a rom-com), "Turn Me On", as a single, still managed to go platinum in the U.S. despite failing to chart there. It would find more radio success in Canada and France, where the momentum coming out of the Grammy Awards would sustain the album through 2003.

Jones would have her next album, "Feels Like Home", on store shelves in early 2004.

Answer: Norah Jones

Though never released as a single from "Come Away With Me", "Feelin' the Same Way" is one of the more uptempo tracks on an otherwise soulful album. This song, along with the more melancholic "Seven Years" and mournful "Lonestar", was co-written with Lee Alexander, one of Jones' collaborators and band members in the country five-piece The Little Willies. Jones and Alexander would become something of a romantic item in the 2000s, living together in a partnership for much of the decade with the latter contributing songwriting credits on Jones' next few albums.

They would separate amicably in the 2010s.

Answer: Someone Else

A 2006 single from UK singer-songwriter Corinne Bailey Rae, "Put Your Records On" seemed to be on every pop radio station for a time in the middle of the decade. The catch is that the track was regarded as a number of different genres-- everything from pop to jazz to R&B to soul. It was, nonetheless, a well-regarded blending of all of these; it would manage number two on the UK Singles Chart while showing on six different Billboard charts in the U.S.

"Put Your Records On" would become Rae's most popular song, becoming a multi-platinum international single and finding itself nominated for two Grammy Awards.

Answer: Someone Else

A soul-blues track by Amy Winehouse, "You Know I'm No Good" was the second single appearing on Amy Winehouse's second album, "Back to Black", slotted between the mega-hit "Rehab" and the title track. While all of Winehouse's other singles were eclipsed by "Rehab's" release in 2006, "You Know I'm No Good" had its own unique success, peaking at number one on the UK Hip Hop/R&B Singles Chart and receiving a remixed version with featured vocals from Ghostface Killah, who included the track on his sixth studio album.

Answer: Someone Else

One of the earlier singles of singer-songwriter Adele, "Chasing Pavements" hit the radio stations in 2008 as part of her debut album, "19", a clear indication that the young artist had a level of maturity and tact that most radio artists weren't bringing to the airwaves at the time. Adele would, of course, go on to become one of the most celebrated names in pop and adult contemporary music for a generation.

"Chasing Pavements" would win one Grammy (though it was nominated for three), hit number one on the UK Indie Chart (and number two on the UK Singles Chart), and go multi-platinum all said and done. Her next major album, "21", would send her popularity into the stratosphere.

Answer: Someone Else

You want a classic? "It's Too Late" is the 1971 track from Carole King, one of the great singer-songwriters of her era. A chart-topper in the U.S. (on the Hot 100 and the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart), "It's Too Late" would go platinum quite quickly, being another feather in the cap of King's highly-celebrated "Tapestry" album, sharing an A-side with "I Feel the Earth Move".

It would go on to win the Record of the Year Grammy and be covered by a number of artists including British dance group Quartz in the early 1990s and Gloria Estefan, as a pop track, in the 1995.