Diana Krall at Kings Park

Fotos: Kevin Seng

Fuente: www.watoday.com.au

Even the ducks at Kings Park couldn't help but shout out their admiration for the performance of the extraordinary artist Diana Krall.

Twice she was interrupted by an enthusiastic quack, coming from the prime seats in the pond at the centre of the Botanic Garden, to which she responded with a husky-voiced "thank you".

It was the perfect evening for the concert – a still, balmy Perth summer night which created superb conditions to carry the amazing tunes coming from the stage into the surrounding bush.

Jazz musician Diana Krall captivated the crowd at Kings Park in Perth.... 
 

Gig review: Diana Krall - A day at the Green

STAY THE NIGHT: Diana Krall during her 'A day at the Green' concert held at Villa Maria Winery at Auckland.

New Zealand was treated to a rare event; not one, not two, but three performances by chanteuses of jazz and blues on Saturday, as Diana Krall came to Auckland for the Villa Maria Estate's 'A day at the Green'.

Melody Gardot, Madeleine Peyroux and Diana Krall
Where: Villa Maria Estate,
When: Saturday, February 20

An elegant Melody Gardot was first on stage at 6pm and welcomed us to the Litilth Fare of Jazz. Her sultry rendition of Baby I'm a Fool for Love had the audience practically swooning in their seats. The next song was If the Stars were all Mine had them truly captured. Her backing band all played accomplished pieces but the biggest cheer was for the guy who played two saxophones at the same time!

Gardot still carries some of the effects of her cycle/car crash in 2003. The legacy of this is that she was left hyper-sensitive to light and sound and thus wears sunglasses all the time, not out of place at the Villa Maria grounds as the evening sun set slowly over our shoulders. She still relies on a cane and when it fell over on stage, there was a cheer for the stage hand who gallantly came to her rescue and retrieved it from the floor.

All too soon her set was over and around me it was said that she was not on stage nearly long enough.

Madeleine Peyroux arrived on stage at 7pm sharp. Her set was relaxed but slick, and included several of her well known songs, Her opening song Don't Wait Too Long from her Careless Love CD was followed by Bare Bones then I Must be Saved both from her Bare Bones CD.

As is the nature of Jazz and Blues the music can wander off into pure instrumental pieces ...much to the crowds delight! Her rendition of Leon Cohen's song Dance Me to the End of Love was appreciatively applauded, as was her final piece was Instead again from Bare Bones CD.

There was a 30 minute wait for the main billing Diana Krall to come on stage. Not a problem in the balmy Feb evening, as The Villa Maria Estate venue was the perfect place to be, all smart and relaxed and extremely organized. They have worked out the best places to site all the usual wine, food stalls and the amenities and is now a very polished venue.

All the vines were covered in net, sort of sad, but we did notice security were quick to question anyone getting too close to the netting than was respectable.

Darkness brought Krall on stage to the Steinway piano at center stage. Her opening song, I Love Being Here with You, was very apt as we were all glad to see her as well.

Lets Fall in Love was a hit with the audience. Tom Jones arrived early into her set and Krall acknowledged his arrival.

The Auckland Philharmonic Orchestra ably conducted by Alan Broadbent accompanied the superstar and her band.

Krall's polished repartee with the audience threatened to get out of control with the loud (tipsy, perhaps) idiot sitting behind me, started yelling out to her that she was great. That and insisting on giving us all a monologue of how totally marvelous she was through out the evening, seriously made me wonder if I would get arrested for clouting him with my bottle of Pinot Gris!

Krall's selection of tunes covered several of her well known songs Quiet nights, Love Letters along with the Nat King Cole's Lets Face the Music and Dance but it was the Joni Mitchell cover A Case of You brought audible purrs of pleasure from the audience. They also were appreciative to the solo moments from the band's keyboard, bass and drums solo pieces. But the best applause was for Diana herself as she tinkled the ivories through out the evening.

As the evening progressed the rapture with audience continued... all too soon the show was over. If tickets for her next one were put on sale at the end of the show they would have sold out.

Fuente: www.stuff.co.nz

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Diana Krall performing at A Day on the Green

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The Diana Krall interview in New Zealand

Last updated 12:02 16/02/2010

It's been five years since Diana Krall last toured New Zealand - she thinks ("is it? It must be something like that?"). And in that five years she has released a couple of new albums - and a best of - but she has been very busy with other things.

"Right, yes, I have but do you know what?" - she is speaking quickly down the line - "I can't even think of all that right now, even though I know where you're going, because, do you know what - right now I am waiting to hear about my little boy who has had an allergic reaction to something and we're waiting to hear about his tests and so my mind is on that and it is on doing interviews and getting ready to play and to travel again and my mind is on so many things."

We both pause. I feel like I need to catch my breath as much as she does. And then there is a burst of laughter, and then "well that's set the tone then hasn't it? I've screwed this up for you."

Krall is the mother of three-year-old twin boys. They are, she tells me, the world to her - her family means everything. But music will never go completely on the back-burner. Because music is also the world to her...and with that we're back at the point where I wanted to start the interview; back to Krall discussing how she is now an international jazz-singing and -playing sensation - a bona fide pop star in the modern jazz world - and she is a mother. A mother who takes her kids on the road with her, setting up makeshift daycare centres in hotel rooms and apartment lodgings around the world...she doesn't see the need to separate the roles ("I can do both - it's not that hard") and tells me that actually doing both creates the perfect space for each facet to exist.

"You know what - I was always playing out at nights, in jazz clubs, staying up, not sleeping. As a mother you're not normally out at jazz clubs, but you're also not sleeping. So I have just combined the two." There's a break for a generous laugh, and then "I find that I get moments...and making music is always about moments; taking moments, making moments, making something from the moments you take. I just have a good reason now to not waste the precious moments I get."

Krall says that being a fulltime mother also means, simply, "I have lots going on right now but I'm happier. And that leads to being happy making music for me too."

The kids travel with Krall when she tours but they will not be making the trip out to Australia and New Zealand. "They're going on the road with their father this time. So they're still going on the road."

And this is good - this is how Krall and Costello want to raise the children, introducing them to music at any early stage, keeping as many members of the family together at any one time as is possible.

"They're learning - and they're enjoying - they love all kinds of music and we get to listen to lots in the cars, in transit..."

Whose music do they prefer?

"Actually their favourite thing to sing along to is Sheryl Crow, which I think is just fine. I mean she has some great singalong songs. I'm not sure their father thinks that's as great as I do - but he's certainly not unhappy about it. It's very affirming - it takes me back to when I was young and hearing music for the first time. I mean I was raised on Ray Brown, which is why he is - still - such a hero to me."

Krall says it is "definitely on the cards" to consider making a children's album and she wants to write a children's book. "My kids are just obsessed at the moment with monsters, they're all 'Mummy, Mummy, there are no monsters, right?' And I'm like, 'you know what, actually...'" she bursts into a big laugh; just the one.

I suggest that this is where she introduces her sons to some people from the record companies...

The laugh stops. "Well, yeah I've met some monsters in this industry I guess - but I do have to be serious here and say that I have just been so lucky with my record company; so lucky with the people I've been involved with, particularly in the last few years, I'm just blessed to be able to do this thing that I do; to tour and record and to know that there is an audience that appreciates my music."

Krall has just released Quiet Nights; it's available now as a special tour-edition with a bonus DVD. She says it came from a desire to "go back to some favourite songs I had never recorded; to get involved again with large band arrangements, with strings and things to go around the quartet".

She enjoys the freedom and scope of playing shows with an orchestra - or with her quartet. "You guys are just getting me and my band - but we're great; I have some amazing musicians in my band and you're just going to love it."

And will they have time to visit any of the wineries they are playing at?

"Oh, we don't drink," Krall tells me. And then, she almost bursts as she blurts out "I'm kidding. Man we play these gigs so we can get close to the alcohol! By the time you see me I'm probably going to have cramp in my arm and won't be able to play because I will have pulled so many corks out of so many wine bottles."

Diana Krall will be playing shows with Melody Gardot and Madeleine Peyroux.

She says she has not played with either but is looking forward to it. "I loved Melody's album; she has a great future ahead of her and I have kept up with Madeleine's work and particularly I love the new album [Bare Bones] where she did all the writing herself and was involved with all the songs. She's a great talent and I'm excited to come down there and to have them with me. I'm actually feeling like a fan who gets to go to the show."

And with that, Krall is off to check on one of her babies. The fulltime mother is also a professional musician and clearly a professional interviewee...

Click here for the details about the tour.

Fuente: www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment

Qualidade técnica impecável sobressai em show de Diana Krall em Curitiba

A cantora Diana Krall tocou clássicos do jazz e da bossa nova em apresentação no Teatro Positivo

A cantora canadense Diana Krall bem que tentou aquecer o público curitibano com sua homenagem à bossa nova, na noite desta segunda-feira (3) no Teatro Positivo. No entanto, após tentativas frustradas de levantar a voz da platéia, que permaneceu durante todo o tempo sentada e em silêncio, o que transpareceu foi a qualidade técnica impecável de Diana e dos três músicos que a acompanharam.

Os instrumentos ficaram posicionados com certa distância da platéia, e Diana permaneceu durante toda apresentação sentada frente ao piano. “Colocaram-nos longe, mas vamos fazer vocês se sentirem mais perto”, comentou logo após sua entrada no palco, que aconteceu com cerca de 25 minutos de atraso.  

Das treze canções que integraram o repertório, apenas três eram de fato do gênero bossa nova. “Todas as músicas do meu novo CD foram inspiradas nas visitas feitas pela cantora ao Brasil”, explicou Diana durante a apresentação, que preferiu dar maior preferência e destaque a grandes canções de jazz com uma pitada ou outra de bossa nova em alguns arranjos e solos instrumentais.

Foi na oitava canção do show que o gênero brasileiro começou a ganhar maior destaque. “Samba de Verão”, conhecida também pelo título em inglês “Summer Samba (So Nice), foi responsável por abrir o set de bossa nova.

Em seguida, Diana deixou clara sua admiração por Tom Jobim. Neste ponto, a cantora deixou o piano um pouco de lado e ofereceu maior destaque ao violão e voz. Em primeiro lugar, foi a vez da versão em inglês de “Corcovado”. Em seguida, “Esse Seu Olhar” cantada totalmente em português.

Uma tentativa muito bem-sucedida da cantora que tentou ao máximo incentivar a participação da platéia. “Eu não sei como é, cantem e me mostrem”, dizia Diana. A platéia permaneceu em silêncio.

Ao lado de John Clayton (contrabaixo), Jeff Hamilton (bateria) e Anthony Wilson (violão), Diana esbanjou técnica e precisão nos solos de grandes clássicos do jazz. O destaque foi para canções eternizadas na voz de Frank Sinatra como “Let’s Fall In Love”, “Come Dance With Me”, “I’ve Got You Under My Skin” e “Exactly Like You”.

Em “Exactly Like You”, a cantora declarou ainda que a canção ganhou um novo significado após o casamento com o marido Elvis Costello e a chegada de seus dois filhos gêmeos há cerca de dois anos.

Diana apresentou ainda canções já conhecidas em sua voz e na de outros intérpretes como “The Look Of Love”, a mais conhecida do público brasileiro por integrar a trilha sonora da novela “Duas Caras”; “I’ll String Along With You”, “Deed I Do” e “Not for Me”.

Com duração de cerca de 1h20, Diana terminou o show com o bis “’S Wonderful”, que fechou com um único e tímido acorde do clássico “Garota de Ipanema”.

Fotos: Diego Pisante

Fuente: www.gazetadopovo.com.br...