Article: Concert Klassik am Dom: Diana Krall, 14 de julio de Domplatz Linz

"Klassik am Dom": Diana Krall, nicht nur wettermäßig ganz in ihrem Element

Zum Auftakt der OÖN-Konzertreihe begeisterte die Jazzsängerin 2700 Fans in Linz.

Der kanadische Jazz-Superstar Diana Krall und Bassist John Clayton bei ihrem Auftritt am Domplatz in Linz Bild: Alexander Schwarzl

Diana Krall und Sauwetter, das ist offenbar eine veritable Liebesbeziehung. "Das ist genau mein Wetter, es erinnert mich an daheim", kommentierte die von der Westküste Kanadas stammende 51-Jährige die ins Grausliche tendierenden äußeren Umstände zum Auftakt der "Klassik am Dom"-Reihe am Donnerstagabend. Grinsend fügte der Jazz-Superstar noch an: "Je miserabler das Wetter, desto glücklicher bin ich."

Von Regen und Wind also ausreichend euphorisiert, bestritt Krall ihr Oberösterreich-Debüt am Linzer Domplatz – und es war eine famose Premiere! Die 2700 wetterfesten Besucher bekamen eine knapp zweistündige Show geboten, die auf gefinkelte Art und Weise Jazz mit Pop, Improvisation mit Songwriterkunst sowie Herz mit technischer Brillanz vermählte.

Tendiert die seit 2003 mit dem britischen Rockstar Elvis Costello verheiratete Sängerin auf ihren Studioalben dazu, die Ecken und Kanten ihres Sounds zu glätten, was gelegentlich zu leichter Edelkitsch-Schlagseite führt, so war davon bei ihrem gefeierten Linz-Auftritt nur in seltenen Momenten zu bemerken.
Ein großartiges Begleittrio

Geschuldet war diese unvermutete Rauheit und Eindringlichkeit nicht zuletzt ihrer formidablen Begleitband, bestehend aus dem Gitarristen Anthony Wilson, Schlagzeuger Jeff Hamilton und dem virtuosen John Clayton am Bass. Das glänzend aufgelegte Trio bereitete das rhythmische Fundament, auf welchem Diana Krall – gewandet in eine überschaubar stylische Straßenmeisterei-Windjacke – ihr präzises Klavierspiel und ihre kühle und doch so eindringliche Stimme wirken ließ.

Musikalische Höhepunkte gab es an diesem Abend reichlich, mit Sicherheit zählten die beiden von Irving Berlin geschriebenen "How Deep Is The Ocean" und "Let’s Face The Music And Dance" dazu, letzteres von Nat King Cole populär gemacht. Ebenfalls sehr schön: eine seelenvolle Version von Burt Bacharachs Evergreen "The Look Of Love" und das extrem lässige "Let’s Fall In Love".

"They Sat Together In The Park/ As The Evening Sky Grew Dark" – einen echten Gänsehautmoment provozierte Krall mit ihrer wunderschönen, geradezu hypnotischen Darbietung von Bob Dylans waidwundem Trennungssong "Simple Twist Of Fate". Ein Traum.

Mit Bacharachs "Walk On By" und einer feinen Interpretation von "Boulevard Of Broken Dreams" (für die Jüngeren: Al Dubin und Harry Warren aus dem Jahr 1933, nicht Green Day!) entließ Diana Krall sichtlich beglückte und berührte Zuschauer schließlich in die kalte Nacht. Miserables Wetter, tolles Konzert.

Klassik am Dom: Diana Krall , 14. Juli, Domplatz Linz

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Concert: "Ravinia Recap: Diana Krall" - jwcdaily.com

Ravinia Recap: Diana Krall

by DNS Contributor • June 29, 2017

Close to 6,000 people filled Ravinia Festival on June 28 to see Grammy award-winning Canadian jazz pianist and singer Diana Krall perform. These photos capture the energy and excitement from the stage:

Diana Krall performing at Ravinia Festival on June 29, 2017

Fuente: jwcdaily.com/2017/06/29/diana-krall/

Article: "At 52, jazz singer Diana Krall is not keeping Quiet" - www.straitstimes.com

At 52, jazz singer Diana Krall is not keeping Quiet

Diana Krall’s latest album, Turn Up The Quiet, is a reflection of her progress in dealing with grief. PHOTO: NYTIMES

PUBLISHEDJUN 21, 2017, 5:00 AM SGT

NEW YORK • On a spring afternoon, Diana Krall sat in an empty Cafe Carlyle, quoting lines from Woody Allen's hit 1986 movie Hannah And Her Sisters in a respectable New York accent.

Krall, the jazz pianist and singer, mentioned a scene in which Allen's character takes a date to see singer-pianist Bobby Short, the Carlyle's longtime cultural ambassador.

Krall met Short more than two decades ago while she was still an aspiring musician. She was then too shy to tell him she played the piano.

"I would just sit in the background, in that chair," she said, pointing to the back of the room.

The Krall of today is not hiding in any corners. Now 52, she is easily the most high-profile female jazz artist of her generation, with a string of gold and platinum albums.

Her film and television projects include an upcoming Amazon series adapting children's book series Pete The Cat. Krall and husband, musician Elvis Costello, 62, voice Pete's parents.

Krall is now eager to engage that veteran stature by mentoring younger musicians.

Today, she will perform at the Beacon Theatre, supporting her latest album, Turn Up The Quiet, a collection of standards released last month that was firmly guided by her artistic authority.

"If she had an idea for something and it felt definite, she would let us know," said drummer Jeff Hamilton, a frequent collaborator who played on the record.

"In the past, she might have said: Is this okay with you guys?"

Quiet is also her last album with producer Tommy LiPuma, who died at age 80 in March.

LiPuma, who first worked with Krall on her 1995 sophomore album, Only Trust Your Heart, was indefatigable to the end, she said.

"He wasn't a frail old man," she noted, adding that he would stay in the studio "as late as possible".

Though the shock has not worn off, Krall has come to see Quiet, which includes songs by Cole Porter, Irving Berlin and Johnny Mercer, as a testament to the values LiPuma embodied for her.

"He took such joy in life," she said.

"He had a tremendous sense of humour and taught me the importance of taking time to be with my family."

Since Krall began a recording career in the early 1990s, her screensiren looks and alluring alto - a voice at once cool and sultry, wielded with a rhythmic sophistication and discretion culled from years of leading with her other instrument - have provided, for some, an aura of unattainable glamour.

But Krall will bluntly point out that she is "hopeless in a gown, because when you sit down at the piano, everything shifts and you just get so frustrated".

When she is recording, visions of actresses Lauren Bacall and Bette Davis may dance in her head.

But she feels more of a kinship with a goofier goddess (and onetime Allen muse), Diane Keaton.

"I can't finish sentences; I go all over the place," Krall said, which is true, to the extent that in her enthusiasm about any given subject - movies, photography and family are consuming interests - she seems eager to leave nothing and no one out.

Discussing the artists she has admired or has been lucky to work with or would like to work with more often - she is less a namedropper than a breathless music nerd, quietly geeking out over the likes of trumpeter Wynton Marsalis and singer Julie London.

Over more than two decades in the public eye, during which she has become half of an atypically durable celebrity couple, and a mother - she and Costello have twin boys, now 10 - she has lost a stream of close relatives and mentors.

Quiet is also a reflection of her progress in dealing with grief.

"It gets to the point where you need to laugh," she said. "And we had so much fun making this record; that's what I hope comes through."

Krall recruited and led three ensembles for the album, one of them featuring bassist John Clayton and Hamilton, who both began working with her when she was 19.

For the singer, the jazz and pop standards on Quiet represent not the past but the enduring.

"It's not about a period of time or a demographic. It's about finding romance in everything, in beauty or in things that are sad."

NYTIMES

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