While Krall might not be the most supple swingerthe jazz world has ever known, she instead has a tendency to place her notes before the beat like Sinatra sometimes did though certainly not with the same throwaway playfulness that made Frank's approach to song sound effortless and casual, though deceptively so.
Essex lost their first wicket in the third over when Varun Chopra edged a Matthew Nicholson out-swinger but Pettini and the in-form Bopara took advantage of some wayward bowling to seize control.