She has 24 years worth of albums, releasing her first in 1993, and her most recent in 2017. She has also appeared in a variety of movies and television shows, including Public Enemy and Melrose Place. 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. . In 1995, when she was still unknown, Diana Krall was booked at the Montral International Jazz Festival as part of a tribute concert to Nat King Coleone of her major influences. And on Wednesday she will perform at the Beacon Theater, supporting her latest album, Turn Up the Quiet, a collection of standards released in May that was firmly guided by her artistic authority. What do you do when loss follows loss like the waves of some horrible storm? Go to Bradley's" - the lost, lamented Greenwich Village club where Krall and so many other young musicians used to sit at the bar and watch the world's best jazzmen play what was, by common accord, the best piano in town. Her album From This Moment On was nominated for Best Jazz Vocal Album in 2007. Slowly, at first without much purpose, Krall started to do what she had not been famous for doing. I have been interviewing the 39-year-old singer from Nanaimo, B.C., at intervals for almost a decade, and her instincts have never been those of a diva or a fashion plate or a socialite. She was interested in music since her childhood. Krall has been playing the piano professionally since she was 4-years-old, has been 25 years worth of albums and touring under her belt, and met her husband through musical legend Elton John. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. "I'm so surprised at the press, you know?" I come down, have a cup of coffee, hes outside playing his guitar, working! Krall began studying piano herself at the age of four[6] and took exams through The Royal Conservatory of Music. They have been together for 15 years now and they are still together. I bought the right records and had the right educators: Ornette Coleman, Bill Evans, Miles Davis. I ask if her concern for Costello reared up again this year. Costello eventually signed with independent record label Stiff and released his first music in 1977. Krall was raised in Nanaimo, a small community on Vancouver Island, where she began performing professionally at age 15 as a jazz pianist.. In August 2000, Krall partnered with Tony Bennett for a 20-city tour, and in 200809 they worked together again for a song on the TV series Spectacle: Elvis Costello with Orchestral arrangements by Johnny Mandel provided the background for her fifth studio album When I Look in Your Eyes (1999), her first released through Verve Records. "When I'm doing something I can feel, and that I can personally relate to. . Diana Krall, Elvis Costellos Wife: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know, Copyright 2023 Heavy, Inc. All rights reserved. She holed up there with an old hi-fi and all the LPs she'd accumulated "from the time I was 16 to whenever they stopped making them." [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. "When people say it's a departure, it still swings," she insists. I knew there were some tracks that Tommy might want to fix, or overdub. Please review our, You need to be a subscriber to join the conversation. ", 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. My whole hope is that I can go and talk to young people, go into schools with my band," says Krall. Hes really healthy, hes doing great. Elvis had cancer. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. The Diana Krall of today isnt hiding in any corners. The couple had twin sons named Dexter Henry Lorcan and Frank Harlan James, born December 6, 2006, in New York City. lines with 2004's "The Girl in the Other Room," an underrated album of mostly original material she co-wrote with husband Elvis . In 2004, she was inducted intoCanadas Walk of Fame and made an Officer of theOrder of Canada the following year. where she performed with her husband, Elvis Costello, as well as friends James Taylor, Elton John, and Sarah McLachlan. Its so austere, so simple; the strings came in at exactly the right time. The couple began dating each other back in the 2000s. Learn how your comment data is processed. The title track from the album, a cover of the Casino Royale standard popularized in the late 1960s by Dusty Springfield and Srgio Mendes, reached number 22 on the adult contemporary chart. Diana Krall embarks on her 19-city Canadian and U.S. tour. The 22-million-selling artist's 15th album is a collection of intimate, classy covers of standards, with the title track a tilt at the Bob Dylan song from his 2009 album Together Through Life. Krall then filed them away when her garlanded longtime producer and collaborator Tommy LiPuma (Barbra Streisand, Miles Davis, Natalie Cole and countless more) died in March that year, aged 80. And what hes doing is extraordinary. And a creative time, too. Youve got me thinking about Tommy", Composing herself, she continues:So, the last sessions that we did, Tommy was already not feeling so great but was like: Lets just keep going, explore, keep going til we dont have any time left So we ended up with an abundance of material. He and I would argue about that song Wed still be having a conversation about where we would be putting that song. The 63-year-old singer-songwriter said. Joni Mitchell too. Costello is the son of late jazz musician Ross MacManus, pictured, who died in 2011, Other stars Costello has performed alongside include former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney, pictured here with the 63-year-old at the Royal Albert Hall in 1999, Costello is a regular sight at the Oscars and is pictured here with his wife at the 2004 ceremony, Costello had a reputation as an 'angry' musician in his youth, pictured left, but his sound mellowed in the 1980s and he has gone on to write and perform in a variety of styles. Stanley Donen and Raw Power, right? She moved on to other projects, including touring and promoting Love Is Here To Stay, her 2018 album with Tony Bennett. [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. I think his stuffs more pointed that mine. Costello, pictured with his wife, also urged men to seek medical advice if they had any worrying symptoms that might be cancer, Costello is well-known for his collaborations and is pictured here performing live with superstars Bruce Springsteen, centre, and The Edge of U2, left, at the Grammy Awards in 2006, He has also worked with music legendBurt Bacharach, left, and they released an album together in the late 1990s. 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. 'The spirit has been more than willing but I have to now accept that it is going to take longer than I would have wished for me to recover my full strength. But hes busy on his own stuff!. The mother of international jazz sensation Diana Krall has lost her six-year battle with cancer. 'To leave you with some more optimistic news, The Imposters and I - together with several of our other friends - have made a magnificent new record of which we are truly proud. ), and basically took most of the night off, letting her bandmates do an extended jam session with lengthy solos on every song! He was recovering from treatment of a small but very aggressive cancerous malignancy, according to a statement posted to hiswebsite. My husband, Elvis Costello, Diana Krall begins, spelling it out unnecessarily, is here now, but he was supposed to see his mom in Liverpool on Sunday. Somebody told me, though: It should be more upbeat. Ms. Krall is now eager to engage that veteran stature by mentoring younger musicians the way Rosemary Clooney, Marian McPartland and others encouraged her. She released her first album,Stepping Out in 1993. The album included covers of Billy Joel's "Just the Way You Are" (a hit on U.S. smooth jazz radio) and Joni Mitchell's "A Case Of You", and was also released as a video album. The division between his contributions and hers is, of course, hardly clear. In it LiPuma talks about being there near the start of your career, first hearing you and not entirely digging it, then seeing you on BET doing Body and Soul and getting that light bulb moment that you were a hardcore jazz purist. [1] She has sold more than 15 million albums worldwide, including over six million in the US. ", Truth be told, the hardest work - the work she almost cannot stand - is talking to me and all the other reporters lined up to ask her about the Krall and Costello show. Well, first of all, it sounds unabashedly like a jazz record. she begins to name a hokey, old-time husband-and-wife act, then cuts . 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. Adella, was treated before she died of a rare form of bone cancer in 2002, at age 60. I did my own album before all that and raised my own money for it. The trauma of losing her mother led, in a roundabout way, to this new record. Krall is discussing what might be the most audacious album of her career, The Girl in the Other Room (to be released April 27 on Verve/Universal Music Canada). When do the clocks change in 2023? And then he got very ill. 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. Im having a moment here, its hot. I was concerned for everybody. Healthy mother-of-two, 32, collapsed and died from brain bleed while she led fitness bounce class. 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. That was the process. On December 11, 2009, Billboard magazine named her the second greatest jazz artist of the decade (20002009), establishing her as one of the best-selling artists of her time. The new album is exquisitely curated, but the bookends of But Beautiful and Singin in the Rain are truly sumptuous exclamations. . In person, though, Ms. Krall will bluntly point out that she is hopeless in a gown, because when you sit down at the piano, everything shifts and you just get so frustrated. When she is recording, visions of Lauren Bacall and Bette Davis may dance in Ms. Kralls head, but she feels more of a kinship to a goofier goddess (and onetime muse of Mr. Allen), Diane Keaton. But, far from a recent recording, the tracks were laid down in 2016 and 2017. "I said, 'Let's just look at what is here.' It's long ago and far away. Thats all Tommy. As she puts it: I dont think I could have moved forward unless I did this. How about, for example, a fully collaborative album with her husband? So what was it like working with Elvis Costello? "Things change, you know? The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. Diana Krall made two bold decisions when she came to record her tenth studio album this year . It's a balmy afternoon outside. What, it's a good thing that people are curious about you and Elvis? Appearing on Jessie Ware's Table Manners podcast, which. 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. She has also appeared in several TV shows including Anything Else, Mississippi Rising, and Public Enemies. He tasted moderate success and was signed to Columbia Records in the US a few months later, even performing on Saturday Night Live in the same year, only to be banned from the show for more than a decade for stopping mid-performance to play a song he had been told not to sing by the producers. the producer Tommy LiPuma, who died at 80. Raw Power. I worked with Iggy Pop last summer (both recorded on Thomas Dutroncs version of Cest si bon), and have been known to play along with Stooges albums late at night. Tommy introduced me to Stanley, and I felt very sad when he passed, so perhaps this is my way a tribute to be paid. 'He had rarely, if ever, seen such a small but very aggressive cancerous malignancy that could be defeated by a single surgery. Her album These Days earned an Album of the Year nominee in 2008. ", Wells, P. (2014). Narrow Daylight is barely more than a sketch, its odd phrase lengths making it seem almost incomplete. Their relationship is going very well and there is no chance of divorce at all. Diana Krall, Elvis Costello's wife, started playing the piano when she was just 4-years-old. At first, they didn't. How does she feel about him today, given the allegations against him of sexual abuse by his daughter Dylan (allegations he denies)? I learned a lot from him about the nature of hard work. I came from Vancouver where I just devoured everything I had access to, which included seeing greats such as Oscar Peterson and Ray Brown. Talking about the rumors and controversy,Diana was rumored to have hooked up with the famous American vocalist Michael Franks in her past but none of them ever talked about the rumor. By August 2002 she'd bought a house on Vancouver Island, near Nanaimo. ", The CD starts off light and eases into heavier territory. He would sit with me in the room when we recorded. The subtle and insightful interpreter of the great old tunes from the classic age of jazz and popular song, chestnuts like Let's Fall In Love, How Deep is the Ocean, Cry Me a River, began to write. When she last spoke to the Telegraph, in 2017, she said that some of her influences as a songwriter were filmic and, specifically, that Woody Allen was everything to me. In 1996, she was nominated for Grammy Awards for her third album, All for You: A Dedication to the Nat King Cole Trio. Prepare for peak pothole season! Ever so quietly. I went to visit him and we were still talking about the record, and he said: Make sure that you finish this and take care of it.. You have to find your own thing in there. My mother had cancer, I lost my best girlfriend. In this she had, as she demurely phrases it, "the good fortune to collaborate with Elvis Costello." Theyre at a cool age. Then another. Does she still enjoy his movies? In 2003, she received an honorary Ph.D. from theUniversity of Victoria and he was inducted intoCanadas Walk of Fame in 2004. Listen to Diana Krall's new . These people Alan, Al, the musicians, Tommy would bring in their own ideas, many more, at times, than I may have come in with. Like everyone, were taking time to love, laugh and comfort each other, and find comfort in music, art and reading. The message is the first time Costello has revealed he has cancer. 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. Or Joni Mitchell.". She married Costello shortly after in 2003 at Elton Johns estate on the outskirts of London. 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. Im just glad we have this time together and hes healthy., The Telegraph values your comments but kindly requests all posts are on topic, constructive and respectful. Diana Jean Krall OC OBC (born November 16, 1964) is a Canadian jazz pianist and singer known for her contralto vocals. Stanley (Donen) and I were friends. She joinedRay Charleson hisGenius Loves Companyalbum in 2004 on the song, You Dont Know Me. 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. 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