Costello, whose pseudonym comes from a mixture of Elvis Presley and his musician father's stage name, was due to perform gigs inManchester, Pula, Croatia, Graz and Vienna in Austria, Tysnes in Norway and Rattvik, Sweden. It ends with a happy-sad, affecting take on Singin In The Rain, while the lead single is an aching version of Irving Berlins 1932 composition How Deep Is The Ocean. she begins to name a hokey, old-time husband-and-wife act, then cuts . Hed walk into a studio and say, What are we doing?, and Id say, I dont know, and go from there. In. Heres what you need to know about Krall: Krall is a successful pianist and singer, best known for her contralto vocals, according to Wikipedia. 'I was elated and relieved that our European summer tour could go ahead. A good thing that I don't think about it!". I love the Stooges. You started talking about But Beautiful. 'It was impossible to judge how this advisory would line up with the demands on a traveling musician, playing 90-minute to two-hour-plus performances on a nightly basis but by the time we reached the Edinburgh Playhouse, I was almost fooled into thinking that normal service had been resumed. He wasnt well at that time. Going back to Autumn in New York, for example, I was shocked to hear it again. But I wonder if it also speaks to her husband's health scare. There's a nice fruit plate on the coffee table. The kids had started back at school, albeit for half the week, mum was able to go back to work almost full-time, and dad was preparing for a quick dash to visit his elderly mother for the first time in months. " This won't do. . OK. [23] The album's dozen tracks were selected from over 30 unused recordings previously laid down by Krall with her longtime producer Tommy LiPuma before his death in 2017. ", The CD starts off light and eases into heavier territory. Suddenly the song is explicitly about her lost mother. Krall has been a straight person in her life and she has never been in any controversy in her entire career. LONDON (AP) Elvis Costello has canceled the rest of his European summer tour after undergoing surgery for a "small but very aggressive" cancerous tumor. Why have we forgotten the most accomplished man in Europe? Does this album contain shades of concern for her husband? So what was it like working with Elvis Costello? The old Tom Waits albums took another spin on the hi-fi. Released in April 2004, it quickly rose to the top five in the United Kingdom and made the Australian top 40 album charts. She also joined Ray Charles on his Genius Loves Company album in 2004 for the song "You Don't Know Me", and her 2004 performance at Bell Centre, Montreal on June 29 was released as her second live CD and DVD, Live at the Montreal Jazz Festival, released on November 23, 2004.[11][12][13]. LiPuma is known for considering structure and tempo first, then deconstructing and reconstructing. She moved on to other projects, including touring and promoting Love Is Here To Stay, her 2018 album with Tony Bennett. Daughter-in-law of Ross McManus. We are in a suite at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills, Calif. Billie Holiday in particular - stacks of Billie Holiday - and Jimmy Rowles.". He was recovering. She has also appeared in a variety of movies and television shows, including Public Enemy and Melrose Place. What do you do when loss follows loss like the waves of some horrible storm? On a spring afternoon, Diana Krall sat in an empty Caf Carlyle, quoting lines from Woody Allens Hannah and Her Sisters in a respectable New Yawk accent. We were performing together on an old stage and Elvis had on very new, very modern and pointy shoes., He leaned back to sing the high note and all of a sudden I couldnt see him anymore. Learn how your comment data is processed. We went in, and let it happen. I dont think that directly affected anything, she adds, returning to her husbands health. [10], After marrying English singer-songwriter Elvis Costello in 2003, Krall worked with him as a lyricist and began to compose her own songs, resulting in the album The Girl in the Other Room. Its what I find truthful and beautiful.. Six of the tunes are by Krall and Costello. The more that we worked together, the more intimate that process, and trust, became. Its middle lyrics are fleetingly mournful: Although deep down I wished it would rain/ washing away all the sadness and tears/ that will never fall so heavily again. The less Tommy said, the more he knew he would get from me. The Diana Krall of today isnt hiding in any corners. It would be a bleak way to end an album if it didn't come after a couplet from I'm Coming Through, still another Krall-Costello original: Only the love you gave to me will save me/I think she knew. Elvis can sit with the kids running around, in a totally cuckoo space, and focus.. The trauma of losing her mother led, in a roundabout way, to this new record. 'My apologies go to our ticket holders in Manchester, Pula, Graz, Vienna, Tysnes and Rattvik but I would rather disappoint our friends there by not appearing than in pressing on with a show that is compromised and eventually puts my health at risk.'. It was a lightning bolt, life-changing in the same way seeing Oscar (Peterson) was. He alluded to the nature of his cancer which is not specifically named by addressing his male fans: Gentleman [sic], do talk to your friends youll find you are not alone seek your doctors advice if you are in doubt or when it is timely and act as swiftly as you may in these matters. [24] The album was completed in May 2020 with production finished by Krall herself,[25] and included the jazz standard "Autumn in New York" for which a video was created to raise awareness for New York Cares, the largest volunteer organization in New York City founded in 1987. The division between his contributions and hers is, of course, hardly clear. Stanley Donen and Raw Power, right? Her album These Days earned an Album of the Year nominee in 2008. In late May 2007, Krall was featured in a Lexus ad campaign. It was May 2002 when Adella Krall finally succumbed to cancer. Now 52, she is easily the most high-profile female jazz artist of her generation, with a string of gold and platinum albums as well as film and TV projects, including an upcoming Amazon series. Battling cancer is the cause Krall holds dearest. Variety is a part of Penske Media Corporation. When I'm playing with the musicians I'm playing with. I came from Vancouver where I just devoured everything I had access to, which included seeing greats such as Oscar Peterson and Ray Brown. Frank came up to me the other day and said, Youll really like this show its got jazz in it. This is how hes negotiating with me, she told USA Today. Over more than two decades in the public eye, during which she has become half of an atypically durable celebrity couple, and a mother she and Mr. Costello have twin boys, now 10 she has lost a stream of close relatives and mentors, and the album is a reflection of her progress in dealing with grief. A month later, two of Krall's most cherished musical mentors, singer Rosemary Clooney and bassist Ray Brown, died within days of each other. ", Wells, P. (2014). Not to undermine what I do, but hearing him up-close like this is something I rarely get the chance to do. After two years, she released her second album titled Only Trust Your Heart. "You know: just write what you know," she says. Thats an eclectic jump between Kubrick and Donen. Krall was raised in Nanaimo, a small community on Vancouver Island, where she began performing professionally at age 15 as a jazz pianist. Does she still enjoy his movies? That sense of valediction permeates the whole album. In September 2001, Krall began a world tour. He sent me all of his movies. I think it honours Tommy and what we did. The English singer-songwriter, born Declan Patrick MacManus, has been married to Canadian jazz pianist and singer Diana Krall since 2003. She knew when it was time to get hot, to turn it on., For Ms. Krall, the jazz and pop standards on Quiet, like the many others she has performed through the years, represent not the past but the enduring. You have entered an incorrect email address! And a creative time, too. Tommy and I, wed go in the studio and have a good time, begins the 55-year-old. Diana Jean Krall was born in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada, to Adella A. Is it ever helpful to talk about this stuff with a visiting scribe, I ask forlornly? When she was in high school, she was a member of a student jazz group and began playing professionally in restaurants when she was just 15-years-old. He would be completely quiet. At first there was only a sensitive woman racked with loss and groping for a way forward. Lets all wish him well and hope that he is able to return to a relatively good lifestyle again. I can remember having to do press on Turn Up the Quiet ten days after he died I was torn into bits between dealing with the shock of that happening, then talking about a record. This song accompanies the film's ending credits (chapter 12) and was composed by fellow Canadian, David Foster. She eventually won a scholarship to attend the Berklee College of Music in Boston, where she studied for three years before moving to Los Angeles. Published: 10:14 GMT, 6 July 2018 | Updated: 16:36 GMT, 6 July 2018. People listen.. She met her husband through Elton John, and the couple have two children. [22], September 2020 brought the release of her sixteenth studio album, This Dream of You, named after Krall's rendition of the Bob Dylan song from his 2009 album Together Through Life. He then worked in a series of office jobs which inspired some of his early songs, before returning to London in 1974 where launched his career by writing music and performing in pubs. Thats all Tommy. It may save your life. [21] The album features the song "Fascinating Rhythm", originally recorded by Bennett in 1949, which earned him a Guinness World Record for the "longest time between the release of an original recording and a re-recording of the same single by the same artist" 68 years and 342 days. She was awarded the OBC (Member of the Order of British Columbia) on an unknown date of . Diana Krall. As with 2017s Turn Up the Quiet, Krall is joined on This Dream of You by what she calls her extended family: her longtime backing trio of John Clayton, Jeff Hamilton and Anthony Wilson on several tracks, rhythm masters Christian McBride and Russell Malone on two tunes, and the quartet of Marc Ribot, Stuart Duncan, Tony Garnier and Karriem Riggins on the rest of the LP. I would just sit in the background, in that chair, she said, pointing toward the back of the room, as far from the stage as the intimate space allows. If you look on the inner sleeve, its her piano. Shes referring to Jo Andres, the wife of actor Steve Buscemi, a very dear friend of mine and artistic colleague she did the [video for] When The Curtain Comes Down. Todays different, so how are we going to choose our next response? One tune, I've Changed My Address, is a tribute to Bradley's, which turned from jazz haven into a sports bar while Krall wasn't looking. I knew there were some tracks that Tommy might want to fix, or overdub. He passed away before we finished everything, and rather than leave those songs in a vault, I worked through it. Diana Krall. Seguing into someone else long in your life: Tommy LiPuma, your longtime producer, and the man behind the sessions that yielded Turn Out the Lights and This Dream of You. Did you read Ben Sidrans new biography, The Ballad of Tommy LiPuma? Tommy introduced me to Stanley, and I felt very sad when he passed, so perhaps this is my way a tribute to be paid. Her waist size is 26 inches and her hip size is 32 inches. ", But in between the piano solos, the lyrics - both to Krall's own tunes and to the ones she covers - are shot through with homecoming, loss, longing and gratitude. But Beautiful. He loved that song. Diana Krall, Elvis Costellos Wife: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know, Copyright 2023 Heavy, Inc. All rights reserved. Now 52, she is easily the most high-profile female jazz artist of her generation, with a string of gold and platinum albums as well as film and TV projects, including an upcoming Amazon series adapting the childrens book series Pete the Cat. (Ms. Krall and her husband, Elvis Costello, voice Petes parents.) Then again, we were always in a first-take situation. Theyre at a cool age. She developed a taste for jazz in her early teens, playing in a Canadian jazz group for restaurants in Nanaimo. I didnt want to do a jazz record, when it came to Wallflower. ", Still, duty calls. So, opening the album with that track felt right. She did all my visuals. After completing her course at Berklee College of Music, Diana returned to Canada and began her career as a professional singer and musician in 1993. What came out is, as always, about keeping it nice and loose. Its important for you to do your work, but its also been important for me to come home and read to my children and have the luxury of having time with them.. I think his stuffs more pointed that mine. I worked and worked and got to New York City and was introduced to Carl Griffin (then the senior VP of A&R at GRP Records) who was, credit where credits due, looking to sign me first. Krall stayed in L.A. for three years. The Canadian . [7] In high school, she was a member of a student jazz group; at 15, she began playing professionally in local restaurants. Last year we were laughing; we sang in church so beautifully/Now her perfume's on the bathroom counter/And I'm sitting in the back pew crying. [20], On September 14, 2018, a joint album between Krall and Tony Bennett, Love Is Here to Stay, was released. "No, it's a drag," she says, and she can't keep from laughing. She released her first album,Stepping Out in 1993. Krall told USA Today that, as much as she loves her work and performing live, she tries to keep it separate from her family life, and tries not to let it interfere with spending time with her children. 'Take very good care of your loved ones but gentleman, do talk to you friends - you'll find you are not alone - seek your doctor's advice if you are in doubt or when it is timely and act as swiftly as you may in these matters. Krall met Costello through Elton John, who introduced the two at the Grammys in 2002. That is why they have started using her as a fashion model. The 2001 movie "The Score" (US and Germany), starring Robert De Niro and Marlon Brando, featured a recording of Krall's entitled: "I'll Make It Up As I Go." Signing up enhances your TCE experience with the ability to save items to your personal reading list, and access the interactive map. The trauma of losing her mother led, in a roundabout way, to this new record. Some like it, NOT! The tour launches with a free concert at Toronto's Union Station on April 28, advancing to a succession of cross-country dates starting with Calgary (May 2-4). In 2003, she received an honorary Ph.D. from theUniversity of Victoria and he was inducted intoCanadas Walk of Fame in 2004. It gets to the point where you need to laugh, she said. 'He had rarely, if ever, seen such a small but very aggressive cancerous malignancy that could be defeated by a single surgery. I'm very driven, but I also care very much about having balance and time with my family, with my husband and my father and my sister. With over 30 additional songs recorded between the producer, the platinum-plated pianist-vocalist and their players during these same often spare sessions, more marvelous recordings were in order for release, in the form of This Dream of You.. What do you recall about getting to know LiPuma? She is much keener to talk about the future of music. Its not about a period of time or a demographic. So I felt it was good to look back. It's just not safe right now, so it. Krall is the only jazz singer to have had eight albums debuting at the top of the Billboard Jazz Albums. ", Costello and Krall were in Vancouver for a benefit concert with Elton John that wound up raising $810,000 for the leukemia/bone marrow transplant program at Vancouver General Hospital, where Krall's mother, Adella, was treated before she died of a rare form of bone cancer in 2002, at age 60. Costello has been married three times and has a son with his first wife, whom he married in 1974, and twin sons born in 2006 with third wife Diana Krall, a Canadian singer and pianist he wed in 2003. Krall was born on November 16, 1964, in Nanaimo, British Columbia, the daughter of Adella A. I cant keep up with him. Battling cancer is the cause Krall holds dearest. Her 11th studio album, Glad Rag Doll, produced by T Bone Burnett, was released on October 2, 2012, and covered mainly jazz tunes from the 1920s and 1930s. There are no other records of her past relationships. So how did the Grammy Award-winning newlyweds make the new album? Like everyone, were taking time to love, laugh and comfort each other, and find comfort in music, art and reading. "I'm so surprised at the press, you know?" Listen to Diana Krall's new . Diana Krall is married to the English musician Elvis Costello. Did he have to shield? I bought the right records and had the right educators: Ornette Coleman, Bill Evans, Miles Davis. 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Was that true of all of your sessions, in particular those that yielded This Dream of You? Diana Jean Krall OC OBC (born November 16, 1964) is a Canadian jazz pianist and singer, known for her contralto vocals. [Then when] he died, it was such a sudden thing. I wanted to keep going and see what we came up with. He has also written music for films including Notting Hill and Cold Mountain and has appeared as himself in films and television including 30 Rock, The Simpsons and Austin Powers. Like so many of us, Krall went home. Look, we didnt want it to end. Thats part of the reason why I play that song, to remind me of that time, one of my favorite parts of being in New York. Krall covers a Costello number from before they met, Almost Blue, and songs by Mitchell, Tom Waits and Mose Allison. Our health minister here, she is so beautiful and helpful, beams Krall down the Zoom portal from her piano-side seat in what looks like the family music room. And as long as we keep the conversation to the musical roots of that collaboration, everything's cool. . Krall began studying piano herself at the age of four[6] and took exams through The Royal Conservatory of Music. Krall was awarded theOrder of British Columbia in 2000. She is one of the highest-paid singers and she has accumulated a net worth of $20 million as of 2022, throughout her career but her salary is not revealed yet. On September 13, 2012, Krall performed "Fly Me to the Moon" at astronaut Neil Armstrong's memorial service in Washington, D.C. Ms. Krall, the jazz pianist and singer, mentioned a scene in which Mr. Allens character takes a date to see Bobby Short, the Carlyles longtime cultural ambassador. Of course he is, and so is she. Elvis Costello has revealed he is battling a very aggressive form of cancer and has cancelled his European tour. Actress: Public Enemies. In 2011, Krall went on a private retreat to Sri Lanka. "No - no! Twenty-five years is a long time. 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