Philharmonic Center, Naples (FL), January 30, 2012

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I attended the Diana Krall show this past week at the Naples Philharmonic, and it was very good.

The combination of her singing and piano playing with the rest of the quartet was magical and very entertaining. The one problem for me was that the piano playing and the rest of the instruments were loud and did not allow her to show off her singing voice. She is an outstanding pianist, but her great talent is her singing.

Someone must get "the blanket from Linus." To make her performance outstanding, she has to leave the piano and stand at the microphone and sing in that beautiful jazz voice of hers.

She is very beautiful but seeing only the side of her is not a substitute for performing facing the audience.

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Diana Krall concert at Phil moved to January 30; second performance added

The Naples Philharmonic Center for the Arts has announced two important changes regarding the scheduled performance by Grammy Award-winning jazz singer and pianist Diana Krall.

Ms. Krall's performance scheduled for February 12 has been canceled, and she will instead give two performances, at 6 and again at 9 p.m. on January 30, 2012.

Krall has mesmerized audiences around the world with her seductive voice, distinctive phrasing and captivating stage presence. Cool, poised and beguiling, Krall is one of the most original and engaging figures in jazz music today. As Stephen Holden wrote in The New York Times, “Understatement and subtlety are what mark Diana Krall … as one of the most quietly expressive jazz singers of her generation.”

"She's completely matured," says ace producer Tommy LiPuma, who should know, having first worked with the singer in 1994. "Even in the past few years, she approaches her vocal phrasing much more like an instrumentalist than a straight singer. It's in her reading of the lyrics and the timbre ofher voice, much more misty like Peggy Lee in her mature period."