{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Kral Space | type = Studio | artist = Irene Kral | cover = Kral Space.jpg | alt = | released = 1977 | recorded = June 1977 | venue = | studio = Sage & Sound Studios, Hollywood, CA | genre = Vocal jazz | length = 37:14 | label = Catalyst<br>CAT 7625 | producer = Dennis Smith and Pat Britt | chronology = Irene Kral | prev_title = Where Is Love? | prev_year = 1974 | next_title = Gentle Rain | next_year = 1977 }}
'''''Kral Space''''' is an album by vocalist Irene Kral, recorded in 1977 for the Catalyst label.<ref>[http://www.jazzlists.com/SJ_Label_Catalyst_7600.htm Catalyst Records 7600 series discography] accessed November 15, 2016</ref><ref name="Kral Discography">[http://www.danacountryman.com/irene/disco/disco.html Irene Kral discography], accessed November 15, 2016</ref><ref>Fitzgerald, M., [http://www.jazzdiscography.com/Leaders/KralIrene-ldr.php Irene Kral Leader Entry], accessed November 15, 2016</ref>
==Reception== {{Music ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = {{rating|4.5|5}}<ref name="Allmusic"/> |rev2 = ''The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide'' | rev2Score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref name=RSJRG>{{Cite book |editor-last=Swenson |editor-first=J. | author-link = | year = 1985 | title = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | publisher = Random House/Rolling Stone | location = USA | isbn = 0-394-72643-X | pages = 131 }}</ref> }} The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow stated: "Kral is heard throughout at the peak of her powers on this haunting session ... Her basic but heartfelt style and her ability to swing at the slowest tempos make Irene Kral one of jazz's great ballad singers."<ref name="Allmusic">{{AllMusic|first=Scott |last=Yanow |class=album |id= mw0000101293 |title=''Kral Space'' – Review |accessdate=November 15, 2016}}</ref> On ''All About Jazz''. Mathew Bahl said: "Always impeccably in tune, Irene Kral had a dry, resonant alto which she deployed to devastating effect. Her art was in her phrasing, which was aided by perfect diction and marked by her tendency to elongate her vowels. She could swing with the best of them, but no matter how fast the tempo, the lyrics always remained intact and their meaning driven home. Yet, it is the quiet intensity of her ballads that lingers most in the mind... All of Irene Kral’s talents are wonderfully displayed on ''Kral Space'' and the music is recommended without hesitation."<ref>Bahl, M., [https://www.allaboutjazz.com/kral-space-irene-kral-collectables-review-by-mathew-bahl.php All About Jazz Review]. Retrieved November 15, 2016.</ref>
==Track listing== # "Wheelers and Dealers" (Dave Frishberg) – 2:40 # "Star Eyes" (Gene de Paul, Don Raye) – 5:49 # "It Wasn't So Good It Couldn't Get Better" (Tommy Wolf, Fran Landesman) – 2:04 # "Once Upon Another Time" (Lan O'Kun) – 4:59 # "Experiment" (Cole Porter) – 2:00 # "Small Day Tomorrow" (Bob Dorough, Landesman) – 4:00 # "Some Time Ago" (Sergio Mihanovich) – 5:15 # "It's Nice Weather for Ducks" (Wolf, Landesman) – 2:22 # "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" (Porter) – 6:29 # "The Song Is You" (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 1:36
== Personnel == *Irene Kral – vocals *Alan Broadbent – piano *Fred Atwood – bass *Nick Ceroli – drums *Emil Richards – vibraphone, percussion
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Category:1977 albums Category:Irene Kral albums Category:Catalyst Records (jazz) albums