“We ate a lot," Streisand reports. “There's something about recording that makes me want to eat. We would bring in Italian food, or go out to dinner. Diana taught me how to roll a piece of chicken with cheese inside and put it in the microwave."
Making Love Is the Answer, the collection of traditional pop and jazz standards that arrives Tuesday, Streisand, 67, and Krall, 44, also played cards, traded stories about growing up and talked about “girly-girl stuff," as Krall puts it. And they challenged each other.
“Diana records differently than I usually do," says Streisand, whose last studio album was 2005's Guilty Pleasures. “I mostly sing live with an orchestra, where she'll sing with a quartet, then add the orchestra later." Working at Hollywood's legendary Capitol Studios with co-producer Tommy LiPuma, Krall set Streisand's vocals against both lush orchestral settings and intimate jazz-quartet arrangements. The latter are available on a bonus disc in the deluxe version of Love.
“The most fun we had, in a way, was with the quartet," Streisand says. “It was a throwback to the way I sang in clubs when I was 18 or 19 or 20."
The tracks were arranged by Johnny Mandel, who had worked previously with Streisand and Krall. Mandel's music also is represented in the collection, along with tunes by Jerome Kern, Leonard Bernstein and Jacques Brel.
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