Diana on Piano Jazz, January 16 '07

[johnfoyle]

http://www.npr.org/programs/pianojazz/u ... uests.html

Each week NPR's award-winning program showcases both acclaimed artists and up-and-coming performers as they share music and memories with their legendary host, Marian McPartland.

Upcoming guest -


January 16

Diana Krall

Diana Krall is arguably the most popular female singer in the jazz world today. Though she originally came onto the scene as a pianist, Krall has since seduced audiences and critics with her warm sensuous vocals. She made her Piano Jazz debut ten years ago, shortly after the release of her first album. Now, she joins McPartland with songs from her most recent work, From This Moment On.

[scielle]

This is great!
Diana's always so much more forthcoming on radio than on TV... I wonder when this was recorded - anyone know?

[johnfoyle]

In one of the interviews Diana did in Sept./Oct. she mentioned enjoying being at Elvis' show with Marion in Boston and hopeing to record a show with Marion 'soon'. I can't find that feature right now but I do remember the comment being made.

[johnfoyle]

Hopefully someone in North America is watching the various NPR schedules and lets us all know about this!

[Bud]

Diana will be on WBFO on 27 January. WBFO has a live stream...

http://www.wbfo.org/programming/pjazz.php3

[johnfoyle]

Thanks Bud . With the 5 hour time difference that'll be one in the early hours of Sunday morning here. There was a time I'd be well able to stay up for it -now I'll have to have a nap earlier on on Saturday evening.......

[scielle]

A 17-minute preview of the show can be heard here:
http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/486/510056/6770064/SCERN_6770064.mp3

They talk of how a 15-year-old Diana searched out Marian's phone no. and called her up looking for advice. Also included are excerpts from her first Piano Jazz appearance back in 1994.
The show was recorded when Diana was 7.5 months pregnant.

[DKJAZZDIVA]

Thank you for this Scielle, how is her hand...can she play piano? I just love her and the thought of her not playing piano again is scary...DKJAZZDIVA

[narrow daylight]

http://www.npr.org/programs/pianojazz/#songlist


Set List for Diana Krall on Piano Jazz:
If I Had You (Campbell, Shapiro, Connelly)
Body and Soul (Green, Heyman, Sour)
PS I Love You (Jenkins, Mercer)
Little Girl Blue (Hart, Rodgers)
Exactly Like You (Fields, McHugh)
Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams (Barris, Koehler, Moll)
On Sunny Side of the Street (Fields, McHugh)
Portrait of Diana Krall (McPartland)
My Shining Hour (Arlen Mercer)

[scielle]

The Piano Jazz site now has a full audio file of the show. Or, try the link below -

http://www.npr.org/templates/dmg/dmg.php?mediaURL=/pt/20070112_pt_dkrall&mediaType=RM

[Coda]

Thanks for the link, scielle. That was very enjoyable.

[gundy516]

Just took time to listen to the program. It was very enjoyable. It made my day!
thanks!

[Bud]

I sure hope her carpal tunnel issue is related to the pregancy!

[fore15]

WOW!!!....thank you so much for the link! It was WONDERFUL! DK is the GREATEST isn't she!? man..that really just put me in a great mood!

[scielle]

NPR has the following scheduled on an upcoming Piano Jazz. Not sure, but I think this may be a rerun of an old (mid-90's) appearance.

August 1: Diana Krall
Singer/pianist Diana Krall is one of the true superstars in the music world today! This amazing performer has brought a new energy to the jazz scene and new fans to the music. Krall made her first appearance on Piano Jazz in 1995, just as her career was about to take off. Performances include Krall's versions of "I've Got the World on a String" and "I'm a Lucky So and So."

[Bud]

Here's a link to the mid-90s interview:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... d=15032078

There are links to other Diana appearances or features on NPR, as well...

[scielle]

Aw, she name-checks Bryan Stovell, how sweet.

Bryan, btw, is still teaching over in Nanaimo. He also chairs the concert band division at this cross-Canada students' music festival that I volunteer-stage-manage at every year. I shared lunch with the man in the National Arts Centre greenroom several weeks ago and can attest to the fact that he's a super-cool gentleman, still churning out uber-talented students.

Also, that's a first time in a long time that I listened to Jimmy - I forgot what a wonderful tune it is. Diana really should write more. Or perhaps she does, just doesn't put it out there on albums for the rest of the world to hear, which is a shame, because GITOR is still my favourite of her albums and I hope she does release some of her own material soon.

[narrowdaylight]

Marian McPartland died: http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertain ... story.html

Marian McPartland, jazz pianist and radio host, dies at 95

After beginning her career in British music halls, Marian McPartland came to the United States and became a most unexpected jazz star. She forged a distinctive style on piano, made scores of albums and composed music that was recorded by superstars.

But her greatest contribution to jazz came later in life, through her illuminating interviews and impromptu performances with musicians on her long-
running NPR program, “Piano Jazz.”

She was 61 when the first “Piano Jazz” episode — with pianist Billy Taylor — aired in 1979. By the time she stepped away from the series in 2011, Ms. McPartland had won a Peabody Award for broadcasting and a Grammy Award for lifetime achievement. She also helped a generation learn about jazz through her searching interviews, conducted in her dulcet-toned, sometimes irreverent, British-accented voice.

“Marian McPartland has done more for jazz pianists than anyone in the entire world,” jazz impresario George Wein said in 1991.

Ms. McPartland died Aug. 20 at her home in Port Washington, N.Y. She was 95.

Her death was announced by NPR. The cause was not disclosed.

Trained as a classical pianist at a conservatory in her native England, Ms. McPartland was drawn to the improvisational freedom of jazz, a world dominated by men and derived from African American culture.

She succeeded in spite of “three hopeless strikes against her,” as countryman critic Leonard Feather put it 1951: She was British, white and a woman.

Yet she managed to use her background as an outsider, “without American social, racial and class baggage,” to her musical advantage, Paul de Barros wrote in his 2012 biography of Ms. McPartland, “Shall We Play That One Together?”

“It allowed her to perceive jazz from the start as a high art,” he wrote.

During the 1950s, Ms. McPartland led a trio in New York nightclubs, most notably the Hickory House, and soon became one of the era’s few women to become established as jazz instrumentalists.

She was one of only two women included in Art Kane’s renowned group portrait of jazz musicians on a Harlem street in 1958. She stood in the front row, next to Mary Lou Williams, in the photograph of 57 musicians that became the inspiration for Jean Bach’s Oscar-nominated 1994 documentary, “A Great Day in Harlem.”

Ms. McPartland was a pioneering woman in jazz and often appeared at the Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Festival at the Kennedy Center. A teenaged Diana Krall called her for career advice, and Ms. McPartland often gave air time on “Piano Jazz” to female performers, from Carmen McRae to Norah Jones.

Nonetheless, she was reluctant to identify herself as a feminist. Replying to a question from Ms. magazine co-founder Gloria Steinem at a college forum in 1974, Ms. McPartland shrugged off the idea that she had faced discrimination.

“It always seemed like an advantage to be a woman,” she said.

Margaret Marian Turner was born March 20, 1918, in Slough, England, outside London. Her father was an engineer with the British arsenal, and her mother followed the strict class rules of the times.

[Bud]

Sad news. I was fortunate to see her tape a live session of Piano Jazz with guest Peter Cincotti some years ago at the Kennedy Center.

RIP Marian McPartland

[Bud]

Here's a link that still works to Diana's most recent interview with Marian: http://www.npr.org/2013/03/22/175052067 ... piano-jazz