Photos Concert: Diana Krall in Sala Palatului (Romania - Bucuresti)

Photos: Cristina Foarfa_23 Nov 2009

PHOTOS, ARTICLE, JAZZ IN VIENNE 2010

Diva Krall au théâtre antique

Comme d'habitude la star du piano avait ses manies. Le backstage transformé en camp retranché des fois que des yeux ordinaires aient pu accrocher les cheveux de la miss ou pire croiser son regard. Sacrilège. Idem pendant les balances, les t-shirts bleus des bénévoles de l'accueil étaient remplacés par de solides gaillards en noir (par ailleurs fort courtois) d'une agence de sécurité privée, afin de dissuader toute personne non autorisée à pénètrer le périmètre de sécurité autour de l'astre ou à sortir de sa poche ce qui pourrait s'apparenter à un appareil de prise de vue. Evidemment à la conférence de presse point de Diana Krall. La presse française, pire rhonalpine, ne la valant pas. On s'en passera.

Début du concert, dans la fosse des photographes c'est la panique... ils n'ont droit d'appuyer sur leur déclencheur que durant le premier morceau. Avec le soleil en contre-jour, les fumigènes, va falloir faire vite. Comme d'habitude elle arrive sur scène avec sa moue légèrement dédaigneuse, arborant à peine un léger sourire à la vue des gradins archi-combles pour elle. Elle doit calculer les dollars. Elle s'assied au piano et démarre son concert. Elle doit être de bonne humeur car elle a tournée la tête à deux reprises vers le public offrant aux photographes la possibilité de la shooter ce qui n'était pas arrivé lors des deux derniers concerts dans la région (A Vienne en 2008 et à Lyon en 2009). Fin du premier morceau. Les photographes sont évacués avec fermeté. Faut pas pousser quand même ! Le concert continue... du Diana Krall sans surprise.

Pascal Derathé

Une chronique plus complète sera proposée dans l'édition de lundi prochain. 

Fuente: www.jazz-rhone-alpes.com

DIANA KRALL IN JAZZBEAT (SEPTEMBER 2002)

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Diana Krall & Tony Bennett @ CapitalOne BlackCreek Festival reviewed by Stanley Fefferman

Saturday, July 2, 2011. Rexall Centre, Toronto.

Diana Krall, fast and sassy in a little black dress crosses the stage before 7000 fans at the Rexall amphitheatre in Toronto, sits down at the keyboard and shows she’s got chops. She’s also shows great taste in her set-list—picked flowers from the Great American Songbook, which she jazzes, often to a Bossa Nova beat, and vocally styles in a way that’s all her own. She delivers “I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face” (My Fair Lady—Lerner and Loewe, 1956) in a blue-tinged style, improvising the melody as she sings, flattening it, extending some vowels, cutting others short: in short, a jazz musician’s performance—intelligent and full of soul.

Ms. Krall gives her band lots of room to shine: Robert L. Hurst III on bass, Anthony Wilson on guitar, and drummer K. Miggins (who does some great bare meat bongo beating on “Exactly Like You” (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy MacHugh, 1930). During her keyboard solo, a low-flying airbus added it’s bass-drone to the proceedings. Ms. Krall looked up from the keyboard, scoped it thoughtfully, then, with her signature wry smile, started singing lines from “Let’s Get Away From it All,” and (homage to Tony Bennet or Mary Ford) “Fly Me To The Moon.” A moment of high performance art IMHO.

From there she fearlessly went to the surrealistic “Jockey Full of Bourbon” from Tom Waits’ 1985 Album Rain Dogs, even singing through cupped hands to get Waits’ bullhorn effect. She merged that tune with Joni Mitchell’s reverent, hyper-Canadian 1970 love-song “A Case of You,” and finished the set cheeky and classy with Irving Berlin’s 1935 Fred Astaire movie hit “Cheek To Cheek.”

Tony Bennett is Tony Bennett is Tony Bennett. Just for being who he is, when he smiles with that flash of verve, he gets a standing ovation. At this point, his way of delivering a song relies on a smooth, rhythmic recitation that can suddenly soar for those screaming high notes, where ( as Bing Crosby used to say about the low notes) ” the money is.” When Mr. Bennett sings,”I’ve Got Rythmn”(Gershwins, Porgy & Bess, 1930) you think he’s singing to you, for you, about the way he feels. He can make you relive musical history in a setlist that includes “Steppin’ Out With My Baby” (Irving Berlin, Easter Parade,1948); his own 1950 hit of a 1930′s song “Sing, You Sinners,” and, also from 1950, “Cold, Cold Heart,” that Hank Williams brought to the top of the country-music chart and Bennett brought to the top of the Billboard Pop chart.

Alas, when real-time thunder, lightning and rain interrupted all this hand-on-heart enjoyment, streams of senior fans, umbrellas unfurled, flowed from the stadium to their cars, and despite Mr. Bennett’s trooper stance, and a wet but willing remnant of fans, there was no singing in the rain. The concert was cancelled. Too bad: I might have heard Tony Bennett live doing my favourite of his lines “Because of you, there’s a song in my heart….”

Fuente: opusonereview.com

*****

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*****

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International Festival de Jazz - Montreal 2011

The Diana Krall concert was spectacular. Our third time seeing her, and each time has been so very different. This was a solo performaance, she played piano and sang. But for her encore she demonstrated her nascent skills on the ukelele.

We waited for her at the artists' exit/entrance, and watched someone else have her photograph taken with Canada's national treasure.

Fuente: margaretevansporter.blogspot.com