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| 04/14/14 06:56 PM |
Jazz
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Friday night, I went to see Diana Krall at the local theatre. I love to go watch a professional play live. The equipment that she had - both a grand and an upright player piano, and a keyboard, were pretty amazing. If you like jazz, so was her band.
She got her start at 15 years old, playing in a silent movie theatre/bowling alley, and she would play the piano to go along with all those old silent movies.
The backdrop for the concert was also an old silent movie from 1902 called "Voyage to the Moon", while most of the songs for the concert were the songs she had rescued from her Dad's old 78's from the 1920's and 30's.
wuchang
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| 04/14/14 09:36 PM |
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Re: Jazz
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She is one of the Wu Chang Clan favorites but the Mrs isn't too keen on Diana's hubby
but I think Elvis Costello is one of the best as well
Glad you got to see her live--she is one of the best musician/singer/songwriters working today
Did she play "The Girl In The Next Room"?
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| 04/14/14 10:47 PM |
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Re: Jazz
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I don't remember that. We possess the same self-deprecating sense of humour, so I 'get her'. She played Glad Rag Doll, for all of the women who work so hard in chorus lines. Harder work, she said, than she's had to do, as she is a feminist.
When someone asked her to play an Elvis song, she said that she would, just as soon as one of Costello's fans asked him to play one of her tunes.
She joked about having her children in a "Rich Hippie School" in NYC, and her humble roots, and on heritage day she sent her kids with a ukulele, because that was her first instrument. Cheap and portable. And, she could fill the bathtub with gin, sing and play the ukulele, while having a dirty martini. All that, without fear of dropping a radio, in the tub.
What I do remember her playing, and I have recorded, but the quality isn't that good, is an 8 minute version of Tom Waits' "Temptation". Costello's influence on her music IS undeniable. It was an awesome show.