Jazz Articles about Diana Krall

Diana Krall: Cool Jazz on a Hot Florida Night

by Mathew Bahl
March 12, 2004

Jazz critics have a tendency to recycle the same ideas over and over again regardless of whether any actual evidence exists to support their position. A favorite punching bag for decades has been the jazz artist “selling out" by leaving jazz to become “commercial." When Diana Krall's CDs began camping out at the top of the Billboard Jazz Chart and she started making the rounds on the late night talk shows, you could almost hear the critical knives being sharpened. ...

Diana Krall

by WBGO 88.3FM
February 3, 2004

WBGO Afternoon Jazz host Michael Bourne chats with pianist and singer Diana Krall. They discuss her upcoming performance at Radio City Music Hall and her latest album The Look of Love.

Michael Bourne: Do you ever feel dizzy from the whirlwind of everything that's been happening?

Diana Krall: I think I was overwhelmed at Radio City Music Hall. I was driving past Radio City Music Hall after arriving back in New York and not being here ...

Diana Krall: Live in Paris

by AAJ Staff
November 1, 2002

Those who have spent the last year or so on the International Space Station or shipwrecked on a deserted island may be forgiven for not knowing about Diana Krall's crossover conquest of the Jazz and Adult Contemporary charts; everyone else not familiar with Ms. Krall's visage, smooth sounds, and last recording The Look of Love will instantly receive a failing grade.

Live In Paris, Krall's first live album, was recorded in a series of performances last November29 through December 2 ...

Diana Krall: The Look Of Love

by Jim Santella
February 1, 2002

Lush strings and gliding flutes surround Diana Krall's tender vocals. Even her substantial piano interludes take on the appearance of drifting mists, through the mix of orchestral timbres. With an emphasis on her sultry vocal interpretations, the latest album reaches out to a broad, popular music audience. Nothing wrong with that. It's just that jazz fans usually want the improvised licks along with their melodies. Russell Malone does provide a few; and they're up to his usual high standards. Expressive ...

Diana Krall: The Look of Love

by John Sharpe
October 1, 2001

The career path she seems to have chosen must trouble jazz fans who have tracked Diana Krall’s meteoritic rise to stardom. Increasingly, emphasis is placed not on her talents as a fine mainstream jazz pianist, but on her smoky voice and obvious physical beauty. Her song choices border on the pedestrian, the arrangements have become tamer, she solos less and her trademark vocal delivery runs the risk of tumbling into self-parody. Sadly, Claus Ogerman's bossa nova-tinged orchestral arrangements leave little ...

Diana Krall: The Look of Love

by Mathew Bahl
October 1, 2001

If you took the time to catch Diana Krall on the road in recent months, you would have seen a talented mainstream jazz pianist fascinated by the possibilities of making music. You would have heard an interpretative singer fully capable of holding a large audience spellbound. And leaving the concert, you would not have suspected that the jazz artist on the stage would be almost entirely absent from her own next record.

The problem with The Look of Love, Diana ...

Diana Krall: When I Look In Your Eyes

by Amy L. Seibert
October 1, 2000

The jazz arena hails plenty of musicians/vocalists devoted to both the music and the instrument, but few have mastered both as well as Diana Krall. The British Columbia native began studying piano at the age of four; landed her first professional gig at 15, and by the age of 24 had the opportunity to work with Jimmy Rowles. Rowles gave Krall the chance to develop not only her piano playing, but also her vocal ability. It paid off.

Originally signing ...