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Photos: Concert DIANA KRALL - Grand Théâtre de Québec (21.11.2017)

DIANA KRALL

Concert:  Grand Théâtre de Québec

21.11.2017

Photos: © Jean-François Grave

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DIANA KRALL on Her Love For Radio - Publicado por iHeartRadio Canada

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Turning Up the Quiet with Diana Krall

Diana Krall's love of radio started when she was a kid; growing up in a house with the radio on all the time. She explains why it's still so important to her.

Andrea Collins

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DIANA KRALL - Place des Arts, Montreal - 2015

Magical evening with Diana Krall

R. Thirsk June 3, 2015

My wife Brenda Biasutti and I hanging out with Diana Krall after her terrific concert in la belle ville.

My wife Brenda and I were at Place des Arts in Montréal last night to attend a concert by Diana Krall. Some dear friends and family members joined us for a memorable evening.

The concert was superb. Diana and her band played a wide variety of music from 1920s jazz to American standards to blues. 3,000 people were in attendance and Diana connected musically with every one of us. Her fingers flew over the keyboard and her voice was flawless. She put her own unique interpretation on original songs as well as compositions by Tom Waits, Paul McCartney and Joni Mitchell.

I admired how Diana and her five band mates worked together. It was obvious that they enjoy and respect each other. I was pleased to see that such teamwork produces the highest quality performance.

Besides being my favourite musician, Diana Krall is also a dear friend of our family. Unfortunately we see each other only rarely. When my wife and I do get together with Diana, we cherish the occasion.

I particularly cherished an occasion a few years ago when Diana and I worked together with students and teachers of Lord Beaverbrook High School in Calgary. It was a marvelous educational project. Over an academic year, the Beaverbrook students researched, wrote, edited, illustrated and composed the music for a book entitled ‘From Blue to Red’.

Front cover of ‘From Blue To Red’. It was produced by the students of Lord Beaverbrook High School as a hardcover book, audio book and e-book.

The book was targeted by the Lord Beaverbrook High School students for an elementary school readership. It tells an imaginative story of the first human mission to Mars. www.FromBlueToRed.net. For the students, it was an extraordinary learning experience.

The leaders of the project were teacher Ross McIntyre and artistic director Samantha Whelan Kotkas. Both are University of Calgary alumni. Compared to the central roles played by Ross and Samantha, the contributions of Diana Krall and me (i.e. narration of the story) were small.

Thanks to Ross and Samantha, the ‘From Blue To Red’ project is now established as a benchmark in Alberta for cross-curricular learning. If you have an interest in pedagogy and can spare 20 minutes, it would be worth your time to view the video documentary (also student-produced!) about the project. The documentary explains why and how the book was made.

I appreciated Diana Krall taking time from her busy schedule to participate in ‘From Blue To Red’. She understands that incredible things will be accomplished when students from art, science and music come together in a learning environment.

My wife and I enjoyed seeing Diana this evening. We beamed when we heard her sing and play. She brings joy to our world. In my next life, I think I’d like to be a jazz musician – the teamwork and creative aspects appeal to me. And I suspect that Diana would consider becoming an astronaut. She is a strong promoter of space exploration and enjoys pushing back all kinds of frontiers. Diana Krall is a national treasure and a good friend.

Fuente: robertthirsk.ca

Article: Diana Krall's new LP shows she's no 'Wallflower' (www.torontosun.com)

Diana Krall's new LP shows she's no 'Wallflower'

BY JANE STEVENSON, TORONTO SUN

FIRST POSTED: FRIDAY, MARCH 06, 2015 08:00 AM EST | UPDATED: SATURDAY, MARCH 07, 2015 08:00 AM EST

Diana Krall (QMI Agency file photo)

MONTREAL — Diana Krall is no Wallflower.

Yes, the Nanaimo, B.C.-born jazz singer’s 12th album is called that, after the Bob Dylan song — one of the dozen pop-rock tracks from the ’60s to ’80s she reinterprets on her latest LP.

But like the feisty Molly Shannon SNL character Sally O’Malley, Krall is no shrinking violet.

“I’m 50 and I kick and I stretch!” says the funny, friendly performer echoing the O’Malley catchphrase always delivered by Shannon in pulled-up red velour pants with a high kick.

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Turns out Krall is a half-century old and proud of it.

“I still feel like 16 but my back feels like 50,” she jokes. “But, no, I feel good. I think I’m in really good shape. And I don’t agree with (the saying), ‘Well, it’s just a number.’ It’s a significant number, as my Doan’s little pills tell me,” Kralls says with a laugh. Doan’s is an over-the-counter medication used to treat chronic back pain.

“I don’t know. I’ve got two eight-year-old kids (twin boys Dexter and Frank) and a great husband (British singer-songwriter Elvis Costello) and tremendous support. I’m more comfortable with my feelings. I’m not as hard on myself. I’m more acknowledging of what I’ve accomplished.”

Krall’s half-century mark comes up because of the December death of her beloved father and a recent bout with pneumonia, which caused both the Wallflower release and tour to be postponed from last October to this winter (she doesn’t tour Canada extensively until May).

“I’m still dealing with (the pneumonia),” she said. “I have what’s called reactive airways — it’s just really difficult to get over. I’m doing better. I do think getting more active — swimming, singing — helps.

“The most difficult thing about it was all the things that happened between August and December, not only to me, but to my family because my father passed away. It’s been a very painful time.”

Krall said it was torture when she couldn’t turn to singing and playing as an outlet to express herself.

“To have not been able to do that physically for six months hasn’t helped because where do you put it? Where does it go? It goes into walking around with a Phillips screwdriver and fixing cupboard doors and stuff like that. I’m sure I drive people crazy.”

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For now, she’s still working through her dad’s passing.

“I don’t believe there’s closure,” says Krall, whose eyes well up. “I do believe that there is a sense of feeling OK. I’m not through that yet. I feel Shiva (the Jewish mourning period) is very important and I need to sort of experience that time.”

The concept for Wallflower followed a much happier time playing at Neil Young’s annual Bridge School Benefit — “It is insanely artistic and beautiful and loving!” she says — and Krall just wanted to sing in the studio.

“I have this picture of me and Neil. He’s got his arms wrapped around me and he’s laughing. He feels like my uncle or something,” she says.

“He was just so kind to me ... It’s the feeling of being a little kid and going, ‘Oh. My. God.’ And I came back from that experience and I had a meeting with (Wallflower’s producer) David (Foster) and we sat down ... and we started to talk. We talked and talked and talked for three hours and decided we wouldn’t do a jazz record. I wanted to do something different.”

It helped that both Krall and 16-time Grammy winner Foster were from the same area of Vancouver Island and both play piano, which Foster does on most of Wallflower.

“I don’t think people realize what a piano player David Foster is and how he played with Dave Brubeck. We’re both from Victoria, Nanaimo, and we just started to work. I won’t say there weren’t a few doors slammed. As Sarah McLachlan has said, ‘He has no edit button!’ But I kind of learned to (ignore that) ... I don’t move away from the piano very often and I was able to come in and just sing.”

Krall says she already knew the songs on Wallflower — everything from The Eagles’ Desperado to Elton John’s Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word — from her time as a fledgling 19-year-old piano player doing the circuit.

“I played a lot of gin joints and a lot of bars,” she says. “I drove in my crap Toyota Tercel to my piano gigs, smoking cigarettes in a Laura Ashley dress, listening to Cuts Like a Knife, pulling up to the country club and (saying) to the valet: ‘Piano player.’ And then I had to sneak out with the cheese tray and put it in my trunk so I had something to eat that night.”

Krall points to Dylan’s recent Sinatra album, Shadows in the Night, as THE way to do an album of covers, even though she hates that word.

“He sounds like he’s lived them,” she said. “And it shows other people that reimagining or interpreting other people’s music isn’t just a cover exercise. It’s something very deep ... I’m not an actor but I sing songs that I can find some experience in ... You just have to find your story in it.”

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DIANA KRALL ON MOTHERHOOD

Diana Krall didn’t say if eight-year-old twin sons Dexter and Frank take musically after her and husband Elvis Costello just yet but apparently they do have a major funny bone courtesy of a certain Canadian funnyman.

“My kids are REALLY into Jim Carrey,” she says. “Every time we pull up to a parking space, they go, ‘Like a glove!’ It’s not great when they are talking out of their butts.”

But their taste also ranges to more sophisticated fare.

“We have a tradition,” says Krall. “Sunday night is Chaplin night. So we watch Charlie Chaplin every Sunday that we can. We all pile in bed and then they read the subtitles so when I go to school and the teacher says, ‘Did Dexter do his reading assignment? Did Frank do his reading assignment?’ I said, ‘Yes, they read subtitles! They read subtitles in a Charlie Chaplin film for an hour.’ And the teacher looks at me like (huh?). It’s reading!”

NOTABLE COVERS BY DIANA KRALL

Diana Krall’s Wallflower features the jazz pop singer-pianist covering pop-rock songs from the ‘60s to the ‘80s, but she has been a major interpreter of other people’s songs her entire career.

Here are five more notable modern tunes she’s covered over the years:

- Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell’s A Case of You was covered on Krall’s 2002 album Live in Paris.

- Billy Joel’s Just the Way You Are appeared on the Live in Paris LP as a bonus track.

- Husband Elvis Costello’s Almost Blue was covered on Krall’s 20004 disc, The Girl in the Other Room.

- Tom Waits’ The Heart of Saturday Night was covered on Krall’s 2007 collection, The Very Best of Diana Krall.

- Bob Dylan’s Simple Twist of Fate was covered by Krall on the 2012 charity fundraising album Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International.

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Fuente: www.torontosun.com

Diana Krall Opens Up To ET Canada About Her New Album & The Passing Of Her Father

Tune in to ET Canada tonight for Natasha Gargiulo's interview with Grammy winning Canadian music sensation Diana Krall.

International jazz sensation Diana Krall has a brand new album to add to her sparkling résumé. The Nanaimo-born singer/pianist's latest full length Wallflower has arrived in stores and Diana sat down with our Natasha Gargiulo to discuss this latest release.

"I started making the record in April while I was on tour with (her 2012 album) Glad Rag Doll," Diana told ET Canada. "So I was taking time in between tour to go to L.A., so it was a lot of... probably a lot more work than I realized to be on tour and make a record."

Wallflower boasts having superstar producer David Foster's fingerprints on the project, which makes sense considering he's also her label boss. Diana says that the album, which is comprised of covers of songs made famous by the likes of the Eagles and Elton John, has a certain flair to it.

"We made it very much like you would do a pop record and I wanted to do that," said the multiple Grammy winner.

Diana also opened up to us about how she was understandably devastated following the passing of her father in December.

"I can talk about it now without completely falling apart," she said. "It has to be acknowledged, it was such an important part of my life. I've always spoken about my dad. I've always talked about his influence on me."

Getting back to music is something Diana says is important for her well-being.

"It's been a tough year," said the popular recording artist. "That's why it's really good for me to get going and talk about the music and play music."

Fuente: www.etcanada.com

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Article: Concert Review: Diana Krall’s Glad Rag Doll tour wows NAC audience (www.ottawacitizen.com)

By Peter Robb, The Ottawa Citizen February 24, 2013

Canadian jazz pianist and singer Diana Krall performs at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Saturday, February 23.
Photograph by: James Park , James Park, Ottawa Citizen


NAC Presents Diana Krall
Southam Hall
Saturday Night, Feb. 23, 2013

OTTAWA — There was a certain amount of teeth-gnashing when Diana Krall released her latest CD, Glad Rag Doll, produced by the legendary T-Bone Burnett and featuring jazz standards from the 1920s and 1930s drawn from her father’s collection of 78 RPM albums. Not “jazzy” enough for some purists.

Well for the rest of us — me, and the nearly full house at the NAC Saturday night — it’s plenty jazzy, and funky, and bluesy and downright good enough. One shouldn’t really expect anything less from the queen of jazz piano, even when she’s battling a cold. The fact that she has chosen to express herself in the music of vaudeville made Krall’s Saturday night concert at the NAC well worth the very pricey price of admission.

That was most in evidence when Krall, through the force of her very open and quirky stage presence, created the intimate mood of a speakeasy, not unlike her very first gig as a 16-year-old piano player in a sports bar in Nanaimo, B.C. That’s not an easy feat to pull off in Southam Hall, which is where intimacy can go to die on occasion. However, she did it.

Many performers these days put on the Ritz and try to tell a story in their performances. Earlier this year, Loreena McKennitt used some well-placed props, including a row of candelabras, to enhance the meaning of certain songs. Krall embarked on her performance with a film intro featuring Steve Buscemi, the star of the hit TV series Boardwalk Empire, that blended into the overture that began the evening. The sense of performance continued through a string of film clips from the silent era in the main, that most of the time successfully complemented the songs being performed.

Krall’s music is always technically perfect, but sometimes she can be too calm, cool and collected.

Not Saturday night. In a show that lasted almost two hours, she was personal, talking a lot about her six-year-old boys, her great aunt who made it to New York in the 1920s as a singer and her own desire to skate on the Rideau Canal on Sunday, weather permitting. She said she bought some skates Saturday for just that purpose.

Talking aside, Krall delivered a night of great music, backed by a great five-man band, ranging from a lighthearted rendition of The Sunny Side of the Street to a powerful version of the torch song Lonely Avenue. She played her faves including Nat King Cole’s Boulevard of Broken Dreams and some Bob Dylan and Tom Waits.

The wistful title song Glad Rag Doll was beautifully rendered in a solo on a upright piano and dedicated to all the young women who made vaudeville their career in the Jazz Age. As she has been during her tour, she took requests from the audience.

Krall has explained her approach to performing in this tour. In a recent interview she said that “I know from the first few bars how the night will go. It’s like a dinner party. You know how sometimes you throw seven people at a table and they can’t find common ground and other times people sit down immediately and it’s like they’ve known each other for a million years? That’s how it feels when it’s good.

“All I do is I go onstage and feel out the vibe. After I suit up in my hockey gear, adjust my skates just so, and I watch the opening film from the side of the stage, and I watch the band’s accompaniment until it’s my time to go out and sit at the piano. I make sure my shoes are on the right feet and then away we go ... ”

Away we go indeed. The crowd was warm and receptive and gave her a richly deserved standing ovation at the end of the night. That prompted an encore that included a lyrical version of Prairie Lullaby.

The playlist from Saturday night:

WE JUST COULDN’T SAY GOODBYE

AIN’T NO SWEET MAN

JUST LIKE A BUTTERFLY

EVERYTHING’S MADE FOR LOVE

LET IT RAIN

TEMPTATION

PEEL ME A GRAPE

LET’S FACE THE MUSIC AND DANCE

GLAD RAG DOLL

SIT RIGHT DOWN AND WRITE MYSELF A LETTER

SIMPLE TWIST OF FATE

SUNNY SIDE OF THE STREET

LONELY AVENUE

JUST YOU, JUST ME

BOULEVARD OF BROKEN DREAMS

A LITTLE MIXED UP

HEART OF SATURDAY NIGHT

SUBTERRANEAN HOMESICK BLUES

PRAIRIE LULLABY

© Copyright (c) The Ottawa Citizen

Fuente: www.ottawacitizen.com

VID: DIANA KRALL IN MONTREAL

Diana Krall
"There Ain't No Sweet Man
That's Worth the Salt of My Tears"
de Fred Fisher

Glad Rag Doll

Diana Krall - piano et voix
Stewart Duncan - violon,guitare
Aram Bajakian - guitare
Patrick Warren - claviers
Dennis Crouch - basse
Karriem Riggins - batterie

Série Jazz à l'année 2012-2013
Jazz All Year Round Series 2012-2013

Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier - Place des Arts, Montréal, Qc (Ca)
27.02.2013

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Diana Krall Trio - Monday February 5, 1990 @ Ontario Science Centre

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