Diana Krall's Wallflower and Bob Dylan's soulful Sinatra - two very different cover albums

Diana Krall has managed to balance the elements of jazz and pop in her music for years now, appealing to a broad audience as a singer while retaining enough credibility as a pianist to carry on getting booked for serious jazz festivals.

There isn't much jazz to be heard on her latest album, Wallflower (Verve), which is produced by Verve chairman and multiple Grammy Award-winning producer David Foster, a fellow Canadian and pianist known for his work with artists such as Barbra Streisand, Chicago, Whitney Houston and Michael Bublé.

The album takes its title from a 1971 Bob Dylan song, and most of the others were hits between the early 1960s and the mid-1980s. Few are a particularly obvious fit for Krall, but they are tunes she loved in her teens and twenties. She is now 50.

The exception is If I Take You Home Tonight, a Paul McCartney song originally intended for his 2012 Kisses on the Bottom album, on which Krall played piano. It didn't make the CD, and Krall asked if she could record it instead. McCartney said yes.

The other 11 tracks on the standard version of the CD are covers of tunes by The Eagles, Elton John, Jim Croce, Gilbert O' Sullivan, Crowded House and 10cc, among others. A "deluxe edition" includes four extra tracks: a duet with Georgie Fame on his old hit Yeh Yeh, The Beatles' In My Life, and live versions of Wallflower and Elton John's Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word.

Fame, incidentally, will be appearing at Grappa's Cellar on February 27 and 28.