Canadian jazz pianist and singer Diana Krall performs during her concert in Bartok Bela National Concert Hall of Mupa (Palace of Arts) in Budapest, Hungary, June 30, 2016. EPA/ZSOLT SZIGETVARY
Originally published July 29, 2017 at 8:27 am
Updated July 29, 2017 at 12:02 pm
By Paul de Barros - Special To The Seattle Times
Riding the success of her No. 1 jazz album, “Turn Up the Quiet” released by Verve Records in May, masterful Canadian singer-pianist Diana Krall delivered a magical, expressive concert Friday at Chateau Ste. Michelle to a sold-out crowd on the winery lawn.
Seated at the piano, wearing a floor-length black print dress, Krall ranged through a sample of songs from the romantic new album, as well as other tunes in a delightful variety of moods, a program Krall described as an “emotional weather report.” Though she hit a few scratchy notes at the start (thanks to the onset of a mild cold), by the time Krall and her crackerjack band got to their playful rendition of “Blue Skies” – which included an interpolation of Thelonious Monk’s be-bop take on the tune, “In Walked Bud” – she leaned into the evening with relaxed abandon.
“I’m having a tremendous time,” she said, then launched into a jaunty “On the Sunny Side of the Street.”
One of the evening’s great pleasures was the band’s quick-witted interplay. On a vigorously up-tempo version of Peggy Lee’s “I Don’t Know Enough About You,” guitarist Anthony Wilson dropped in a quote from “Sweet Georgia Brown,” which was echoed by fiddler Stuart Duncan, then again by Krall at the piano.
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