AP - Apr 1, 2009
Between a new album, an upcoming tour, producing a record for Barbra Streisand, a marriage to Elvis Costello and 2-year-old twin boys, it s hard to imagine Diana Krall can relax these days. But her hectic...
More »Reuters - Mar 30, 2009
Diana Krall may be Mrs. Elvis Costello now, but the Grammy winner is still her own woman when it comes to her career as a jazz musician, as well as a budding record producer for no less than Barbra Streisand...
More »AP - Dec 8, 2008
Diana Krall describes her first record in three years as intimate, sensual and erotic. I m not coy single girl singing Peel Me A Grape. I love that song but I don t love it for me any more, Krall...
More »Reuters - Aug 19, 2007
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 gone right over with the Rat...
More »Reuters - Apr 27, 2007
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, Calif., the Grammy Award-winning...
More »AP - Feb 22, 2007
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 the festival has brought legends...
More »Reuters - Jan 25, 2007
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 with splashes of jazz. Critics...
More »Reuters - Dec 30, 2006
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 Showcase, this jazz-drenched city s...
More »E! Online - Dec 11, 2006
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 in New York, twin sons Dexter...
More »AP - Dec 8, 2006
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, according to a statement from...
More »Reuters - Nov 20, 2006
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 micromovies, each with a new guest star, a...
More »Reuters - Nov 1, 2006
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 its October 2005 release. The...
More »Reuters - Oct 13, 2006
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 unprecedented move, Vince Gill s new...
More »AP - Sep 18, 2006
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, she once again surrounds herself...
More »AP - Aug 28, 2006
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 incredible no matter how many...
More »Reuters - Aug 28, 2006
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 automation, big business and...
More »Reuters - Jul 4, 2006
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 more than 20 years. Now 80...
More »AP - Jun 25, 2006
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 spokesman confirmed the pregnancy...
More »AP - Jun 14, 2006
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 American Classic. The album of...
More »Reuters - Apr 27, 2006
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 festival, organizers announced on Thursday...
More »AP - Feb 15, 2006
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 award. The Alberta rockers Juno...
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