Just the Way You Are
Context
A cover of the Billy Joel song, Just the Way You Are closes Diana Krall's album Live in Paris, recorded in 2002 at the Olympia and released on October 1, 2002 under the production of Tommy LiPuma, with Al Schmitt engineering and Alan Broadbent conducting. The record documents the pianist-singer at the peak of her popularity, after the success of The Look of Love.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese. Among the origins and influences of Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese: Classic blues (women singers), Swing, big bands, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).