Seeing the great Diana
Krall again, now that she's a mother, is a real kick in the
head, as Dean Martin used to say.
And the way she talked about maternity would have...
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Diana Krall will hit the road this
summer in North America, with jazz trumpeter Chris Botti
supporting on 18 of the 38 dates.
Beginning June 8-9 at Yoshi's in Oakland,...
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A tiny college town surrounded by farmland seems an unlikely venue for the annual Lionel Hampton International Jazz Festival.
But this week marks the 40th straight year...
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Brazilian singer Rosa
Passos has played for audiences from New York's Carnegie Hall
to Japan, enchanting them with the gentle, wistful melodies of
her homeland, enlivened...
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In a city that lost several beloved
institutions in 2006, the sound coming out of Chicago's jazz
scene is providing a year-end coda no one wants to hear.
The Jazz...
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Hopefully, between the two of them, Elvis Costello and Diana Krall know plenty of lullabies.
The musically inclined couple welcomed their first children together Wednesday...
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Elvis Costello and wife Diana Krall are the parents of twin boys.
The new arrivals — named Dexter Henry Lorcan and Frank Harlan James — were born on Wednesday,...
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This birthday gift to
the grand old man of pop is probably the best thing of its sort
that you will ever see.
Nine Tony Bennett classics are heard in nine...
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Canadian rock act Nickelback will
hit the road one last time to promote its hit album "All the
Right Reasons," which has sold four million copies in the
United States since...
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Usually when an artist releases a
multiple-CD collection, it's a boxed set of greatest hits,
perhaps with a few previously unreleased tunes thrown in. In a
possibly...
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Diana Krall, "From This Moment On" (Verve)
Sultry songstress Diana Krall feels right at home on her swinging new release, "From This Moment On."
Luckily for Krall fans,...
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Ticket sales have been far from spectacular, but Ivan Neville says performing at the same Hurricane Katrina anniversary concert Tuesday night as Stevie Wonder is going to be...
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You may have seen the recent photos
of Bob Dylan looking uncannily like Charlie Chaplin, and his
44th album, "Modern Times," shares a title with Chaplin's 1936
classic about...
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B.B. King and his guitar
Lucille, on a final tour in Europe, has bid an emotional
farewell to fans at the Montreux Jazz Festival, where the "King
of Blues" has performed for...
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Diana Krall and husband Elvis Costello announced Sunday that the jazz singer is pregnant and due in December — just in time for their third wedding anniversary.
A...
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Tony Bennett has recruited more than a dozen music heavyweights, including Bono, Paul McCartney and Barbra Streisand, to sing on his new album, "Tony Bennett: Duets/An...
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Deep Purple, whose 1970s hit "Smoke on
the Water" describes a concert fire raging in Montreux, is
returning to the Swiss lakeside resort to close the 40th annual
jazz...
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Nickelback, the first Canadian band to debut No. 1 on the Billboard chart in over 30 years, received a leading six nominations Wednesday for Canada's annual top music...
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Tony Bennett breaks with tradition on his Grammy-nominated CD, "The Art of Romance," by doing something he had shied away from throughout a recording career dating back more...
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Diana Krall made sure she didn't overthink her "Christmas Songs" album. She just wanted to have fun.
So she lit candles, decorated a tree at a Los Angeles studio and...
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Shirley Horn, the great jazz vocalist and pianist and one of the
last links to the Miles Davis era, has died at age 71, her label
announced Friday.
The Grammy-winning...
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The November 22 Blue Note release
"Higher Ground" will feature highlights from Jazz at Lincoln
Center's Hurricane Katrina benefit concert.
The 15-track disc includes...
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With the exception of the now-famous Kanye West outburst, celebrity-driven benefits for Hurricane Katrina victims have followed a familiar formula — musicians singing...
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Celebrities including Ellen DeGeneres, Jay Leno, Master P and Dave Matthews are contributing star power to relief efforts for victims of Hurricane Katrina.
DeGeneres, a...
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Avril Lavigne leads the pack of nominees for the 34th Annual Juno Awards, Canada's version of the Grammys, which will be held April 3 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Lavigne is up...
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Never one to rest on his laurels,
Elvis Costello has a variety of projects on the horizon,
including a 10-inch vinyl EP of previously unreleased
recordings, two DVDs and a...
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A trip to "The Red Light
District" scored Ludacris his second consecutive No. 1 album on
the U.S. pop charts Wednesday.
The Atlanta rapper/actor's fourth Disturbing Tha...
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Like that smiling skydiver on the deodorant ads? Can't get enough of his sunny joshing on MTV's "Pimp My Ride"?
Prepare to meet the cunning, sometimes caustic musician...
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Since establishing himself as a solo
artist, Sting's tour's have become grand affairs featuring
large bands. That will change in April, when he launches the
Broken Music...
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Swedish DJ Eric Prydz rebounded to the
top of the UK pop charts Sunday, bouncing heart-throb Robbie Williams down to number three.
Prydz's "Call on Me" regained its hold...
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Sonic Youth, David Johansen, Andrew
W.K., Sean Lennon and Suicide's Alan Vega have joined the
lineup for an Oct. 8 New York show to benefit Cedars Sinai
Cancer Research...
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Ray Charles is being remembered as a musical innovator who blended genres of music to create a new style. Charles died on Thursday of acute liver disease at age 73.
Ray...
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Quotes about singer Ray Charles , upon his death at 73 Thursday:
"Ray Charles was a man we particularly admired both as a friend and as an artist. We had a great time...
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When Ray Charles was recording what would be his last CD, "Genius Loves Company," at times he felt too sick to sing his best. But even as his heath waned, the consummate...
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Montreal will be Canada's hot spot
this summer as the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal
celebrates its 25th anniversary June 30-July 11.
The festival, founded by...
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Are you better off than you were
four years ago? If you asked acoustic piano manufacturers and
retailers, the answer most likely would be no.
Aside from being a musical...
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Usher
has turned Eminem's
world upside down.
Last
week, the Eminem -led D12
World ended Usher's five-week run at number one on the album
chart, but in this week's...
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Usher's
new confession: He can't touch Eminem.
Becoming the first new chart topper since March, the
Eminem -led rap group D12 knocked off Usher's Confessions
and took...
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American music icon Ray Charles ,
whose voice gave birth to soul music, has been reduced to a
whisper, and cannot stand without support.
The 73-year-old singer/songwriter...
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Clint Eastwood 's passion
for music began when he was very young, playing trumpet and
piano. "I played when I was a kid, but I drifted away from all
of it when I got into...
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Peter Cincotti may love Paris, but as the Rodgers and Hart standard goes, he'll have Manhattan.
Cincotti describes his past year as "one big blur" of interchangeable...
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Generations of families who grew
up singing "Can you tell me how to get to Sesame Street?" will
soon have a new tune to hum.
In the Sony Wonder April 6 home video release...
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Elvis Costello , the singer-songwriter
who once crooned "Everyday I Write the Book," is making good on
his word.
Publisher Simon & Schuster confirmed on Thursday that...
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It appears there's still no way to beat Norah and Clay.
On the album sales charts, Norah
Jones continued to fend off all contenders as Feels
Like Home secured its sixth...
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Elvis Costello has agreed to a two-book deal with Simon & Schuster, but don't expect any juicy music industry gossip.
In a statement issued Tuesday, the publisher said...
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Though she's known mainly in Quebec
as a jazz vocalist, Coral Egan may well be Canada's next pop
star.
Montreal-based Justin Time, Canada's premier jazz label,
released...
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A huge archive of live recordings from
the world's leading pop, rock and jazz artists spanning the
past four decades has become available for exploitation.
Claude Nobs,...
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For five decades, names like Ella Fitzgerald and Jimi Hendrix have blared out in neon letters above the doors of the Olympia concert hall.
The famed Paris concert hall...
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All hail the vocalists! Four song
stylists are among the victors in this year's jazz chart
recaps, on the strength of albums first released in 2002.
The No. 1 album on the...
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British pop singer Elvis Costello has
married Canadian jazz artist Diana Krall in a private ceremony
in Britain, Costello's agent said on Thursday.
"Diana Krall and...
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The 25th edition of the Montreal
International Jazz Festival will feature singer Diana Krall and
piano legends Oliver Jones and Oscar Peterson, organizers said
on...
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Grammy and Juno Award winner Diana Krall said she has already begun recording tracks for her next CD project, with more recording sessions scheduled for next week in the San...
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Contemporary and classic female jazz vocalists performing timeless tunes is the focus of Lady Sings The Blues, a new two-CD collection that bows Tuesday (March 25).
The...
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Grammy-winning singer and pianist Diana Krall continues her worldwide Look Of Love tour trek through the summer. In July and the early part of August she will perform in...
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Platinum-selling singer and pianist Diana Krall lost her mother on Sunday (May 26), in Vancouver. Adella Krall died at age 60 after a long battle with cancer.
In 1996, Mrs....
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Acclaimed jazz pianist and vocalist Diana Krall has earned major kudos in her native land. The performer from Nanaimo, British Columbia, racked up three honors at the 2002...
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Singer and pianist Diana Krall will continue to promote her current CD The Look Of Love on a newly announced slate of 2002 concert dates in the United States.
The Look Of...
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Singer-pianist Diana Krall, the first jazz artist to go platinum in Canada, will return the favor by playing a free concert at Toronto's historic Union Station on September...
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Singer/pianist Diana Krall has achieved a milestone few contemporary jazz players are able to reach: Her album When I Look In Your Eyes has achieved platinum status for...
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Singer-pianist Diana Krall won a Grammy for best jazz vocal performance for her critically-acclaimed album When I Look In Your Eyes, although she lost album of the year...
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Courtesy of RockOnTV (www.rockontv.com):
NBC:
Late Night With Conan O'Brien - Diana Krall guests. (To read a Diana Krall feature, click here.)
Today: Musical guest Smokey...
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He isn't playing "Misty" for you anymore, but Academy Award-winning actor/ director Clint Eastwood takes his passion for jazz another step in his latest feature film, True...
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Actor Kelsey Grammer will host the 40th annual Grammy Awards, according to sponsors the National Academy Of Recording Arts & Sciences. The three-time Emmy-winner, whose...
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Fiona Apple, Clint Black, Deana Carter, Shawn Colvin, Sammy Hagar, Wyclef Jean, Diana Krall and Usher will read the nominations for the 40th annual Grammy Awards at a New...
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Sister Hazel, Diana Krall, the Mavericks, Fiona Apple, Keiko Matsui, Jeff Foxworthy, Linda Eder and Ricardo Lemvo are among the artists set for the 40th annual National...
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