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November 22, 2004 - Here's a little visual for your Jazz tastes this holiday season - Diana Krall is set to release a new concert DVD. "Live at the Montreal Jazz Festival" will be out this Tuesday November 23 and features the boys she was on the road with this year; Anthony Wilson on guitar, drummer Peter Erskine, and Robert Hurst on bass. If you liked her most recent CD "The Girl From The Other Room" this live set should be in your collection, it features "Abandoned Masquerade," "Departure Bay," and "Narrow Daylight." The Verve album has already gone gold in the U.S. and double platinum in her native Canada. The DVD ... features three covers from "Other Room," Tom Waits ("Temptation"), Mose Allison ("Stop This World"), and Joni Mitchell ("Black Crow"). Special bonus features on the Live at the Montreal Jazz Festival DVD include the music video for "Narrow Daylight," a photo gallery, artist biography and discography. Krall also digs into the vaults for the live set with older tunes like "All Or Nothing At All" from her album Love Scenes and "East of the Sun (West of the Moon)" and "Devil May Care" from "When I Look in Your Eyes."
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Since the early 90's the career of pianist and singer Diana Krall, born in 1964 in Canadian British Columbia, has been on an upward swing. The blond jazz chanteuse modestly attributes this success ... to a degree of luck. However, anyone who has experienced one of her various live shows in Europe, will have very quickly been taken by an immense radiance, and, above all, have been impressed by her enormous talent and musical versatility. Indeed, the elegant and sensitive combination of sincerity, intuition, and last but not least sensuality, are without comparison in hardly any other, current or past, music artiste. Her piano play is effortless yet virtuous, has incredible swing, hiding away in the background only to jump to the fore and draw on the drama of the listener’s heartache. Whilst sensitivity towards the tone and volume of her instrument, lends towards an effective improvisation.
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Despite her wide-sweeping commercial success, Diana Krall has a problem. Too often over the course of her career, she has suppressed her tendencies toward making more meaningful jazz by chasing the larger sales figures that have been dangled in front of her. Although she undeniably has reaped the financial benefits of her approach, there ... is no doubt that she has gotten where she is simply by following the safest route to her destination, and this, of course, has undermined her credibility as an artist. Fans may have lapped them up, but the world hardly needed to receive new interpretations of George Gershwin’s ’S Wonderful, Cole Porter’s I’ve Got You under My Skin, or Burt Bacharach’s The Look of Love, especially those that inferiorly follow in the footsteps of the countless others that have come before them.
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At seventeen, Diana Krall the Vancouver International Jazz Festival rewarded her a scholarship to study at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Diana completed three terms there, and then moved to Los Angeles on the persuasion of the celebrated bass player Ray Brown and drummer Jeff Hamilton, who were fascinated by her playing while she was in Nanaimo. Both Brown and Hamilton convinced Krall to study with pianist Jimmy Rowles, with whom she began to sing. They ... introduced her to several influential teachers and producers. Krall relocated to New York in 1990.Krall’s first album, “Stepping Out”, in which she did the recording with John Clayton and Jeff Hamilton, was released in 1993. Her second album, “Only Trust Your Heart”, was released in 1995.
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Diana Krall grew up in British Columbia, Canada where she learned to play classical piano at 4-years old then joined her high school jazz band. Krall learned a lot from her father who had an extensive record collection. Krall went on to attend the Berklee College of Music on a music scholarship and after playing in L.A. and other various places, Krall ended up in New York where she recorded her first album. This first album only sparked Krall's career and allowed her to make a crossover out of jazz and play in the Lilith Fair. Buy your tickets today so you are not left out of seeing Diana Krall live.
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Born in 1965 on Canada's Vancouver Island, Diana Krall was raised on jazz. Both parents were jazz pianists, and she studied piano at age four. The family met at Grandma's to make music; Fats Waller was everyone's idol. Diana drew inspiration from Nat King Cole and from piano-playing singers, particularly Carmen McRae. She played in the school band, but by age 15 had a gig three nights a week in the town of Nanaimo.
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