Route 66 - Diana Krall

Route 66 - a young Diana Krall at the 1996 Montreal Jazz Festival.
Bass: Paul Keller
Guitar: Russell Malone

Diana Krall Returns to Broward Center

February 1, 2018 @ 8 PM

Au-Rene Theater 
at the 
Broward Center 

for the Performing Arts

201 SW Fifth Avenue, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33312

browardcenter.org

With her sultry, expressive vocals and evocative piano playing, Grammy & JUNO Award-winner Diana Krall will mesmerize you with her take on the American Songbook. Krall, the only jazz singer to have eight albums debut at the top of the Billboard Jazz Albums, reunited with Tommy LiPuma, the Grammy Award-winning producer of many of her acclaimed albums including All For You, The Look Of Love and Live In Paris, for her new album Turn up the Quiet. Don’t miss out on one of the most romantic concerts of the year.

Diana Krall #TurnUpTheQuiet

#DianaKrall #TurnUpTheQuiet at the National Arts Centre @SoundCheckBlg "Krall’s brand of entertainment seemed particularly fitting for such a grand venue in our nation’s capital city & as soon as the lights dimmed you could have heard a pin drop.” https://t.co/yNDKqWq9Xu pic.twitter.com/KqDNS4SqMr

— Diana Krall (@DianaKrall) December 7, 2017

Diana Krall delights fans at Chateau Ste. Michelle

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.

read more at: http://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/music/diana-krall-delighted-fans-at-chateau-ste-michelle/

Diana Krall

Singing in the rain getting ready for NAC show in Ottawa pic.twitter.com/7gbA4hrdSs

— Diana Krall (@DianaKrall) October 27, 2016

#DianaKrall

"#Love songs last because they are about feelings that don't change" Diana Krall • https://t.co/Git6jFARpm • pic.twitter.com/KZHa1sfEuE

— A Passion for Jazz!® (@APassion4Jazz) August 17, 2016

#DianaKrall

Diana Krall @Jazz_in_Marciac “All Or Nothing At All” with @anthony__wilson @KarriemRiggins & @roberthurst3 - https://t.co/K7FMAxFeZx

— Diana Krall (@DianaKrall) August 10, 2016

Diana Krall heads into the last week of European Tour

Diana Krall heads into the last week of European Tour with dates in France & Spain. Get Your Tickets While You Can! https://t.co/4R317iana5

— Diana Krall (@DianaKrall) July 25, 2016

Diana Krall to play Paramount

Posted by Paul de Barros
Sultry singer Diana Krall, who recently has added an Americana element to her jazz set with the superb, T-Bone Burnett-produced “Glad Rag Doll,” will appear in Seattle next year. Krall was in fine form at the Monterey Jazz Festival in September, though she had not by then integrated the two sides of her set very smoothly. By the time she gets here she may well have done so.
Read more: http://blogs.seattletimes.com/soundposts/2013/11/04/diana-krall-to-play-paramount/?syndication=rss

Diana Krall Live FULL CONCERT au Festival de Jazz de Montreux

Diana Krall: Old-Time Music, Rooted In Nostalgia

Photo: Mark Seliger/Courtesy of the artist

by NPR STAFF

Listening to Glad Rag Doll, Diana Krall's new album of revamped songs from the Prohibition era, you might assume the singer has a natural attraction to old music. You wouldn't be wrong; Krall has recorded plenty of midcentury jazz standards in her career.

But she says these particular songs from the 1920s and '30s never seemed old to her. She grew up singing them every weekend at her grandparents' house.

"After dinner, somebody would play the piano or the accordion or spoons, or whatever else was available in the kitchen," Krall says. "I was maybe 6 years old. Somebody was always playing something from a piece of sheet music. I still have the sheet music, and it still smells like cigarettes. I just thought that everybody's grandparents loved old music and loved jazz."

Some of the songs on the album come from her father's collection of 78s, which she says makes the project deeply personal. Krall and her 76-year-old father still spend time exploring his stacks of records.

"I spent about six hours with him recently," she says. "He just played records, and we just sort of looked at each other and tilted our heads, and it was all expressions on our face. There's so much said in those looks."

Krall says she was nervous about what her father would think, since she did not re-create the songs in their original style.

"This music is in my heart and is my sort of interpretation, not a tribute," she says. "But my dad is pretty open-minded and he kind of dug it, so I was thrilled about that."

From: http://www.npr.org/2012/11/08/163108110/diana-krall-old-time-music-rooted-in-nostalgia?ft=3&f=126134671&sc=nl&cc=jn-20121111

Jingle Bells....

Jazz star's new normal

Despite her 15 million albums sold, her international tours, her Grammy and Juno wins, her household-name celebrity and over-the-top glamorous CD covers, Diana Krall remains disarmingly normal. That's the impression that the Canadian jazz musician, who performs tonight at the sold-out National Arts Centre 2010 Gala, leaves after a 30-minute conversation.

The one qualification is that in Krall's case, "normal" refers to a "normal jazz player and music nut."
Like innumerable lesser known jazz musicians -- and many of her own fans -- Krall, after 15 years of stunning global success, is still blown away by music when it affirms the joy of togetherness, and even moved to tears by the mere presence of her own musical heroes.

Indeed, for all her achievements, she still expresses the same humble musical frustrations she likely had three decades ago. Then, she was a 16-year-old in Nanaimo, B.C., whose yearbook description noted that she wanted to be Oscar Peterson. What asked about what continues to drive her to make music, she instantly replied: "I'm so frustrated. I'm so frustrated. That's what it is. I want to be better. I want to be able to execute what's in my head, from my voice and my fingers, and I can't do it.

"There's something -- divine dissatisfaction -- in my own work that keeps me (going)," she says. "I don't get tired of the music." Chatting Thursday night from her Vancouver home, where she was about to prepare a salmon dinner for her three-year-old twin boys, Krall sounded warm, upbeat and self-effacing. By her own admission, she was also a bit rambling, which might have been due to jet lag. She had just returned from a three-week tour of South America.

"It's like I've been around the world in 80 days, quite frankly, just going so hard," she said. Last summer, in support of her 2009 CD Quiet Nights, she played a run of European jazz festivals. Earlier this year, she was in Australia and New Zealand. Her first concert in Canada after some months is "so important" to her, she said, at the same time recalling memories of other Ottawa appearances.

She singles out a 1997 performance with the NAC Orchestra in tribute to the Canadian composer and arranger Robert Farnon as a highlight of her career. She drops the name of Ottawa pianist Norbert Boyce, whom she called a "childhood friend" when they both lived in Nanaimo.

"He was one of the very first jazz piano players I ever met, and he was from Nanaimo. It was pretty groovy knowing that when I went to Ottawa, I would get a chance to play (for him)," Krall says.
She's grateful to Jacques Emond, the retired programming manager of the Ottawa International Jazz Festival, who presented her in 1990, three years before she released her first CD.

Read more: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/Jazz+star+normal/3612979/story.html#ixzz11a1Q8Get

Elvis Costello & Diana Krall

Elvis Costello & Diana Krall walk the Red Carpet at the 2009 Junos in Vancouver

Review: Diana Krall Fights the Chill....

The cold and windy conditions at Livermore's Wente Vineyards Thursday night might have been great for growing grapes, but wasn't ideal for the sold-out crowd that turned out to see Diana Krall. And the jazz singer-pianist certainly sympathized.

“I should have gotten some Diana Krall cashmere blankets made up for you," she quipped at one point. In lieu of that souvenir item, the Grammy award-winning star who performs at the Mountain Winery in Saratoga Tuesday and Wednesday did her best to heat up the night with 80 minutes' worth of sensational straight-ahead jazz, Latin-tinged numbers and bluesy ballads.

The 44-year-old Canadian musician and her top-notch band guitarist Anthony Wilson, drummer Jeff Hamilton and bassist Robert Hurst, in place of regular cohort John Clayton opened the show with a snappy take on the standard “I Love Being Here With You" and then moved straight into a lively run through Harold Arlen's “Let's Fall in Love."
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=41086

The Voice Is Dark and the Emphasis Mysterious

By STEPHEN HOLDEN
A subdued Diana Krall held forth on Tuesday at Carnegie Hall, where she gave the first of two concerts on consecutive nights with a 41-piece orchestra, augmented by a jazz trio (Jeff Hamilton on drums, Robert Hurst on bass, and Anthony Wilson on guitar). The music, much of it from her recent bossa-nova flavored album, “Quiet Nights” (Verve), maintained an aura of hushed introspection with occasional blips of swing, when her sturdy jazz pianism came to the fore.

When Ms. Krall paused to talk, her remarks — about traveling on a tour bus with her 2 ½-year-old twin sons; about meeting President Obama, who she said was unaware that her husband is Elvis Costello (he was impressed); about the similarity of New York’s recent rainy weather to the climate in her native Vancouver, British Columbia — were dry observations, offered in a low voice with barely a trace of a smile.

“Quiet Nights,” which closely follows the format of her enormously successful 2001 album, “The Look of Love,” has reversed the downward trajectory of Ms. Krall’s record sales. Both albums, arranged and orchestrated by Claus Ogerman, feature music that works equally well as ambient sound for the bedroom and restaurant and as foreground music of considerable psychological complexity.

Together Ms. Krall and Mr. Ogerman (who was absent; Alan Broadbent conducted the orchestra) treat songs as film-noir fragments in which everything remains ambiguous and unresolved. Ms. Krall doesn’t interpret lyrics in a literary manner. With her dark whispery alto, she slithers through songs in short stop-start phrases that sometimes reduce a melody to a single repeated note. One string of words may be elongated with an emphasis on a vowel or a scooped-up syllable; the next grouping may be nearly swallowed as she hurries to catch up.

The effect is to turn songs into mysterious stream-of-consciousness ruminations. Adopting a jazz singer’s prerogative, she turns standards (“Where or When,” “Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye,” “Love Letters”) expressing familiar romantic sentiments into semi-abstract, personal reflections whose meanings may not necessarily coincide with — and may even contradict — the words as written.

At the same time Mr. Ogerman’s lush arrangements, with their cool, sighing choruses of woodwinds and strings, carry advanced chromaticism to the edge of dissonance. Instead of a harmonic happy ending, the typical arrangement fades out like a ghost in the fog. The combination of voice and orchestration sustains an undercurrent of erotic tension fraught with foreboding. The truth remains hidden. That aura of ambiguity applied even to those numbers, like “P.S. I Love You” and “A Case of You,” that Ms. Krall sang while accompanying herself on piano, without the orchestra.

The concert’s somber mood was interrupted by some moments of hard swing (“ ’Deed I Do” and “I Love Being Here With You,” the latter prefaced by an extended stride piano solo) in which Ms. Krall’s emphasis on vocal sound over verbal elucidation was even more pronounced. Yes, on one level, Ms. Krall is a middle-of-the-road pop-jazz diva. But just below the surface lies an interpreter who is talking to herself in a private language that is all about rhythm.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/25/arts/music/25krall.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

Diana Krall more than launches album and test to be what “Mrs. Elvis Costello”

Diana Krall more than launches album and test to be what “Mrs. Elvis Costello”
New work of the pianista, “Quiet nights”, arrives at the store tuesday (31).
“I do not obtain to write a letter in hypothesis some”, says the artist.
Diana Krall can now be Mrs. Elvis Costello, but the artist awardee with the Grammy still is owner of an important proper career as jazzist, beyond having if launched as producing of records for nobody little than Barbra Streisand.
But Krall at any moment did not leave to reveal its side wife and mother when, recently, it spoke on its new album, “Quiet nights”, that it arrives at the store in the tuesday (31), its work of studio with Streisand and its presentation in the White House.
“Perhaps either the dribble”, it said, excusing itself, when its cellular one touched during the interview to Reuters. “The boys had lunchhed and now they are taking off its sleeping. It is all good. Elvis is taking care of of them in Vancouver”, affirmed with a sigh, thinking about its twin children Dexter and Frank, of 2 years.

Its marriage with Costello in 2003 joined two musical forces, and the influence of the British rock musician seemed clear in the album of Krall “The girl in to other room”, of 2004.
Diana Krall, 44 years, is known over all by its interpretations of standards of the jazz, but “Girl in to other room” included some songs that it wrote and composed with Costello. The puristas had not been total satisfied, because they had found that it moved away itself from what they waited, presenting materials that were more singer/composer contemporary of what properly jazz.
Krall remembered that some fans had left before the end a show it in that year in the Radio City Music Hall, in New York.

COMPACT DISC for children.
“I wait to be able to make a record for children. If I collaborated with Elvis, really I would be amused. We could make a crazy rock, and it would write on insects or something thus.”
But Krall said that it does not have plans to combine its talentos with the music of its husband in the albums of it. The two work independently in its records, but they hear ribbons demon one of the other.
Later that it records, Costello can give to ideas on the sequence of the songs, the effect and other elements of the after-production, but Krall remembers that dom of it is for writing letters, while of it is to compose the melodies. “I do not obtain to write a letter in hypothesis some”, said it.
“It is therefore that Elvis and I combine so well. We have the same intensity and passion for the things, we want to be artists and to make what we feel that it is the certainty.”

Singers of jazz homage Brazil...

Diana Krall launches “Quiet nights” and remembers Tone Jobim.
Jane Monheit shows to good Portuguese and song of Ivan Lins.
The relation of love between the jazz and the Brazilian music is old, that still today of the samples of that namoro is exactly firm and that the sorts continue if mixing. Test of this is the albums recently launched by the North American Jane Monheit and the Canadian Diana Krall, both bringing compositions of names consecrated of the bossa-new and the MPB.

A trip to Brazil in 2007 was what record inspired Diana Krall to dedicate to its 12º to the bossa-new - also it was this way again in the passed year, singing in homage to the anniversary of 50 years of the musical sort and recording a DVD, intitled “Live in River”, that it is foreseen to leave in May.
The record of Diana Krall gained the name of “Quiet nights”, heading in English for “Corcovado”, and brings in encarte a great photo of Rio De Janeiro. The repertoire makes one mix of classics of the jazz, as “Where or when”, celebrity in the voice of Frank Sinatra, with songs of Tone Jobim, as “Girl of Ipanema”, that it gained adaptation and it turned “The boy from Ipanema”, and” This its look ", sung in a macarrônico Portuguese. Beyond, clearly, of the song that of the name to the COMPACT DISC.

The record still brings “Only nice”, version in English of “Samba of summer”, signed for the Marcos brothers and Pablo Sergio Valle. E counts on the participation of the arranjador Claus Ogerman, that worked in such a way with Sinatra how much with Jobim.
Already Jane Monheit, in “The lovers, the dreamers and me”, basically follows the same prescription, only that instead of Tone Jobim, Ivan Lins sings, composer of who is fan since always and whose musics have the old habit to record. While it supports its repertoire of jazz with “Get out of town”, of Cole Porter, it brings a version in English of “Perhaps”, of Lins.

The excellent Portuguese of the singer - of skillful voice it only can be heard some bands later, in “The first time” (of Bide and Armando Marçal), in which it risks itself in a likeable samba. In 2007, the singer already had launched a record with strong Brazilian influences, showing partnerships with Sergio Mendes and Ivan Lins, beyond presenting a song of Jobim, “Only had of being with you”.
The surprise of this its new record is on account of the opening music, “Like to star”, composed for Corinne Bailey Rae, celebrity for hit “Put your records on”.
http://g1.globo.com/Noticias/Musica/0,,MUL1092372-7085,00.html

Diana Krall....

“I do not obtain to write a letter in hypothesis some”, says Diana Krall
For Steve James

New York (Reuters) - Diana Krall can now be Mrs. Elvis Costello, but the artist awardee with the Grammy still is owner of an important proper career as jazzista, beyond having if launched as producing of records for nobody little than Barbra Streisand.
But Krall at any moment did not leave to reveal its side wife and mother when, recently, it spoke on its new album, “Quiet Nights”, that it arrives at the store in the tuesday, its work of studio with Streisand and its presentation in the White House.
“Perhaps either the dribble”, it said, excusing itself, when its cellular one touched during the interview to Reuters.

“The boys had lunchhed and now they are taking off its soneca. It is all good. Elvis is taking care of of them in Vancouver”, affirmed with a sigh, thinking about its twin children Dexter and Frank, of 2 years.
Its marriage with Costello in 2003 joined two musical forces, and the influence of the British rock musician seemed clear in the album of Krall “The Girl in the Other Room”, of 2004.
Diana Krall, 44 years, is known over all by its interpretations of standards of the jazz, but “Girl in the Other Room” included some songs that it wrote and composed with Costello. The puristas had not been total satisfied, because they had found that it moved away itself from what they waited, presenting materials that were more singer/composer contemporary of what properly jazz.

Krall remembered that some fans had left before the end a show it in that year in the Radio City Music Hall, in New York.
The singer and Canadian pianista said that it can want to collaborate with the man to who calls Elvis - at least in public - in place its real name, Declan, on a COMPACT DISC for children.

“I wait to be able to make a record for children. If I collaborated with Elvis, really I would be amused. We could make a rock maluco, and it would write on insects or something thus.”
But Krall said that it does not have plans to combine its talentos with the music of its husband in the albums of it. The two work independently in its records, but they hear ribbons demon one of the other to see the reactions of the other.

Later that it records, Costello can give to ideas on the sequência of the songs, the effect and other elements of the after-production, but Krall remembers that dom of it is for writing letters, while of it is to compose the melodies. “I do not obtain to write a letter in hypothesis some”, said it.
“It is therefore that Elvis and I combine so well. We have the same intensity and passion for the things, we want to be artists and to make what we feel that is the certainty”, said it.
http://musica.uol.com.br/ultnot/reuters/2009/03/30/ult279u7528.jhtm

Diana Krall Included as Special Guest to Stevie Wonder's White House Event

Diana Krall was recently included in Stevie Wonder's White House event as a special guest. President Barack Obama was present yesterday at the event to award Stevie Wonder with the Second Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. Diana's participation at the ceremony will be broadcast on the new PBS Live at the White House series.
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=30890