martes, 28 de agosto de 2012

Live review: Diana Krall, L.A. Philharmonic not the finest mesh at the Hollywood Bowl

August 26th, 2012, 10:45 am
posted by STEVEN MIRKIN, FOR THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER












Diana Krall with her trio and the L.A. Philharmonic in the first of two performances at the Hollywood Bowl.
Photos: Armando Brown, for the Register.

There were two concerts at the Bowl Saturday night. The first was Diana Krall with the L.A. Philharmonic: a perfectly fine night, easy listening sounds with good bone structure, the kind of music that makes the Canadian superstar the Norah Jones of jazz – an anodyne beauty with an aura of sophistication, perfect to accompany a happy hour of shopping in an upscale boutique.

The second also featured Krall, but with her hard-driving backing trio, playing loose-limbed piano jazz with a touch of New Orleans.

She never quite seemed to mesh with the Phil. There was an uneasy truce, to be sure: Krall, who has performed with orchestras for years, never could find common ground with conductor Alan Broadbent, her one-time piano teacher. On her own, however, or with her small group, she played with sly humor – dropping the Beatles “Come Together” into an effervescent reading of Irving Berlin’s “Cheek to Cheek,” slipping in a tender “Fly Me to the Moon” to honor Neil Armstrong.

Krall, whose natural inclination is to sing in front of the beat, brings songs an urgency, one matched by her percussive work on the piano, and her band, especially Kariem Riggins on drums, is flexible enough to follow. The evening’s standout was her solo reading of Dylan’s “Simple Twist of Fate,” which entranced the audience with its direct, soulful ache. The orchestra, on the other hand, too often weighted her down, lashing her vocals with cornstarch-thickened strings and ponderous, heaving horns.

Interestingly, Krall seems to be turning away from such settings. Glad Rag Doll, a new take on ’20s and ’30s songs due Oct. 2, finds her working with producer T Bone Burnett, a longtime collaborator of Elvis Costello’s (who she coyly referred to here as “Mr. E.C.” or “my husband”). Perhaps when she returns to promote that album, we’ll have a chance to hear her current interests.


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miércoles, 22 de agosto de 2012

Diana Krall's "Butterfly" is a new-fashioned 1927 song (www.dianakrall.com).

Diana Krall's "Butterfly" is a new-fashioned 1927 song

Diana Krall is seated under low light at an 1890 Steinway upright that she doesn't even touch until halfway through the take.

The "Recording" sign goes on and she begins to sing the verse of " "Just Like A Butterfly That’s Caught In The Rain," accompanied only by Bryan Sutton's Maccaferri guitar. The band commences to play with an effortless tread, while with lovely melancholy, Krall sings…


"I know that all of the world is cheery by that old cottage door

Why are my wings so weary?

I can't fly anymore"


It is one of the most beautifully realized performances from Diana Krall's extraordinary new record, 'Glad Rag Doll' – out October 2nd on Verve.

The song, written in the late 1920s and recorded originally by Annette Hanshaw in 1927, is among many on the album that were first recorded in the 1920s and 1930s.

Speaking of hearing Hanshaw while growing up in a household filled with 78rpm records, Krall said, "I just love the way she sang, always have. I knew Annette Hanshaw as well as any other singer before I discovered Carmen McRae and Ernestine Anderson."

Producer T Bone Burnett, spoke of the process of making these older songs vivid for the present time…

"We try to imagine ourselves sitting in the room with the person. What did it actually sound like when Annette Hanshaw or Lee Morse was singing and playing? It sounded exactly the same way as when you sing and play today.

Whatever the time and place, Krall says of "Just Like Butterfly", "I think that's my favorite but I don't have try to sound like them. It's more the story I'm trying to tell"

Then she added with a smile, "You know, it says "lonely" twice in "Just Like a Butterfly That's Caught In The Rain." The refrain is "Here I am lonely, tired and lonely." Okay, I'm lonely already. We get the point."

Fuente: www.dianakrall.com


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Diana Krall debuts ‘Just Like a Butterfly’ on canada.com (Canadian exclusive)


 

JUST LIKE A BUTTERFLY THAT'S CAUGHT IN THE RAIN
Harry MacGregor Woods (m) Mort Dixon (l) 1927

Here I am, lonely,
Tired and lonely,
Crying for home in vain,
Just like a butterfly that's caught in the rain!

Longing for flowers,
Dreaming of hours
Back in the sun-kissed lane,
Just like a butterfly that's caught in the rain!

I know that all of the world is cheery
By that old cottage door,
Why are my wings so weary?
I can't fly any more!

Here I am praying,
Brokenly saying,
"Give me the sun again!",
Just like a butterfly that's caught in the rain!

When it's raining from the sky,
And I see a butterfly,
I can almost hear him sighing
'Cause he has to stop his flying.
I can easily sympathise
With those helpless butterflies!

Here I am, lonely,
Tired and lonely,
Crying for home in vain,
Just like a butterfly that's caught in the rain!

Longing for flowers,
Dreaming of hours
Back in the sun-kissed lane,
Just like a butterfly that's caught in the rain!

I know that all of the world is cheery
By that old cottage door,
Why are my wings so weary?
I can't fly any more!

Here I am praying,
Brokenly saying,
"Give me the sun again!",
Just like a butterfly that's caught in the rain!


(Contributed by Peter Akers - April 2009_lyricsplayground.com)

Diana Krall delivers bossa nova-rich set to Thunder Valley audience (www.sacramentopress.com)


by Barry Wisdom, published on agosto 20, 2012 at 12:21 AM

photographs by Barry Wisdom












At 43, Diana Krall is no longer the wunderkind who snuck up on jazz lovers in 1993, and gave them a small, wet kiss on the back of their necks in the form of her debut album, "Stepping Out."

Seasoned as a pianist, singer, writer, Krall is now a wife (she's married to Elvis Costello) and mother with 12 albums to her credit, and a 13th ("Glad Rag Doll") due out Oct. 2, she is – as they say – not getting older, she's getting better.

Krall, accompanied by a tight combo, showed off her still-maturing virtuosity in a romantic, sensuous set on the Thunder Valley Casino Resort Amphitheatre stage Saturday evening. The warm, late-summer breezes seemed appropriate for the bossa nova-rich set list heavily influenced by her 2009 album "Quiet Nights."

Dressed casually in a three-quarter-sleeve, butterfly-print top and jeans, and sporting gold-framed, round-lensed Ray-Bans to shield her eyes from stage lights, Krall delivered her dreamy, delicious songs with a mix of steam and sex that enraptured and captivated the amphitheatre's concertgoers.

Krall's world tour continues Tuesday with a performance at the Turlock Community Theatre, before heading to the Hanford Fox Theatre (Aug. 22), and a two-night engagement at the Hollywood Bowl (Aug. 24-25). To view future tour stops, click here.


Fuente: www.sacramentopress.com

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PD: Muchìsimas gracias al Sr.Barry Wisdom, dueño de los derechos de las fotos, por permitir la publicaciòn de las mismas!

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jueves, 16 de agosto de 2012

Photos: Diana Krall Live: Freihofer’s Saratoga Jazz Festival @ SPAC, 7/1/12 (Day Two)

LISTEN: DIANA KRALL - "WIDE RIVER TO CROSS"

Tuesday, August 14, 2012 at 3:10PM


Being the wife of Elvis Costello does bring some perks. For acclaimed jazz chanteuse and pianist Diana Krall that gives you the chance to work directly with famed producer T Bone Burnett, the man behind Costello's recent Americana-centric studio work ("they're like brothers" Krall tells Rolling Stone). The result? Glad Rag Doll (October 2, Verve), an album of retro remakes from the back pages of the American songbook. For a preview, listen how Krall caresses Buddy Miller's gospel and blues ballad tinged "Wide River To Cross". Read more about the new album and stream another track at DC here. Read the full Rolling Stone interview here.




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viernes, 10 de agosto de 2012

Photos: Diana Krall - Milwaukee: 16, July 2012 (jeffreyascott.blogspot.com.ar)









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viernes, 3 de agosto de 2012

DIANA KRALL FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE?
August 2, 2012





It was just like any other night; pulling 78rpm records from a big stack in the den or playing half-remembered melodies from song folios piled up by the piano.

"I thought everybody knew about these things," said Diana Krall speaking of listening again to the marvelous, mischievous records that her Dad had collected during her childhood.

"Now I'm all grown up, I think I just wanted to live out one of the Carole Lombard characters that I saw on late-night pictures but with the music from the "Ziegfeld Follies.""

"It's 1920's music for the 21st Century."

It's precisely those records and visual images that inspired "Glad Rag Doll" - out October 2 on Verve - Krall's first collaboration with producer T-Bone Burnett.

"She was just possessed" said Burnett. "People might say this is all about old-fashioned music but it's very, very new-fashioned music."
Diana reworks Fred Fisher's "Ain't No Sweet Man That's Worth the Salt of My Tears" with Marc Ribot, T-Bone Burnett, Jay Bellerose, Dennis Crouch, Colin Linden, and Keefus Ciancia: http://bit.ly/MOSq7T

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For more information about Diana Krall, please contact Elizabeth Lutz (elutz@shorefire.com), David McTiernan (dmctiernan@shorefire.com), or Rebecca Shapiro (rshapiro@shorefire.com) at Shore Fire Media, 718.522.7171