Recording with Streisand?

[scielle]

I suspect that Barbara Streisand album (http://www.dianakrallfans.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1638) is being recorded next week:

This is from the DK site:

Diana is in New York and will be traveling to Los Angeles at the end of this week. She will be back in the recording studio. Stay tuned! Diana's new CD is scheduled to be released in early 2009.

And this from Jeff Hamilton's:

Nov. 17-25 JH; Recording w/ Barbra Streisand, Los Angeles, CA

Oh, am I good or what?! Now somebody pls get me a gig at MI6

[Bud]

Nicely done, scielle!

[scielle]

http://broadwayworld.com/article/Barbara_Streisand_Set_To_Begin_Recording_63rd_Album_1117_20081114

BarbraNews.com announced today, Friday November 14th 2008 that Barbra Streisand will return to the recording studio on Monday November 17th to record her first studio album since Guilty Pleasures, which was released on September 20th, 2005 and subsequently went Gold within weeks of it's release.

Streisand broke the news of the upcoming project to radio listeners prior to the Presidential elections. She will work along side Diana Krall for the very first time.

It's not yet clear what Krall's role will be -- but BarbaraNews is pretty certain that she'll be involved with the arrangements.

[Samuel]

I've found this on You Tube:

"Barbra Streisand will return to the Recording Studio next week to start work on her 63rd album -- produced by Diana Krall."

http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=h8P7ka2Bl ... re=related

[Coda]

Good finds, Sam and scielle.

[narrow daylight]

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/art ... AD94ULPOO2

Diana Krall to release Brazilian jazz record

Diana Krall describes her first record in three years as intimate, sensual — and erotic.
(...)

"Quiet Nights," to be released on March 31, is Krall's CD of new material in three years. The sultry jazz vocalist and pianist known for her crossover appeal had twin sons with husband Elvis Costello in 2006; they turned 2 Dec. 6. Krall said she's never been happier, and the record reflects that.

(...)
In addition to finishing "Quiet Nights," Krall is producing a new Barbra Streisand record that is slated to be completed in January and released sometime in 2009.
Krall intends to tour North America in April following the release of "Quiet Nights."

"I think I've reached the best time in my life," Krall said. "I really went through some rough spots with the death of my mother (in 2002). ... But now that I have my own family, I'm working as hard as I ever worked, but I feel like I have it all."

[Coda]

Producing Bab's record? That's great! I'm also very much looking forward to the new album...and the possibility of a tour in April.

[narrow daylight]

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news ... c0e2b0&p=1

Home at last

(...)
She has also been in L.A. producing a new album for Barbra Streisand.

The collaboration with Streisand started when Krall was pregnant. "She'd come to some of my gigs and mentioned that she needed inspiration for her tour, so I started sending her CDs."

Streisand surprised Krall at her Madison Square Garden concert in 2006 when she dedicated the song Down With Love to her. The shout-out turned the heads of audience members Oprah Winfrey and Rosie O'Donnell.

Krall shakes her head, incredulous. "I mean I'm just this girl from Nanaimo, and I'm pregnant, out to here with the twins. And then I got the phone call asking me to work with her."

She was so stunned, she says she didn't call back. At least not right away. She had to absorb it. But soon she was down at Streisand's house, playing songs on her piano. Now she's booking orchestra times, tracking budgets.

"Cool, eh?" says Krall, who is suddenly just the girl from Nanaimo again, as surprised as anyone at the thought.

"We speak to each other as women, as moms. She's someone I really admire. We talk about art and architecture and design and clothes. The normal things."
(...)

[Coda]

I'd love to talk about art and architecture and design and clothes with Babs and Diana, too! I'd be happy to chat with them over a coffee cup or a wine glass!

[Bud]

BARBRA STREISAND? You won't see her at any of the Inauguration functions -- though she was most certainly asked to appear! But she and Diana Krall will watch the ceremonies from a recording studio in L.A. where they're working feverishly on Barbra's new album. Diana is producing with her trio. They are toiling like crazy in a limited two-week time period that unfortunately coincides with Washington's festivities. Barbra says she is happy she could do her L.A. fund-raiser for the president-elect and even though she won't be in D.C. on Tuesday, he knows her heart is there along with 300 million other Americans.

http://www.variety.com/article/VR111799 ... =2062&cs=1

EC is doing a big inaugural event out here in DC. Guess Diana won't be with him

[Coda]

Maybe she'll get a gig or two at the White House, especially since Obama likes jazz.

[scielle]

She's already played there during the Clinton administration - and more than once, I belive.

[Coda]

Yes, I remember a picture of her shaking Bill's hand, I believe outside the White House.
If Obama also likes punk rock, maybe Elvis can share a gig with Diana!

[Bud]

"This is (Krall's) first time producing," says Streisand, 66, who is executive producer. "She's so good at what she does, and I like her so much as a person. We're working with a small group, like I did when I was a young performer." Tracks in progress include standards such as Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most and In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning.

http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/new ... entl_N.htm

[Andrea]

Q Diana Krall is producing your new album. Is she also singing on it?

A I’m trying to convince her to sing with me, but she’s resisting it. She plays the piano for me on several songs, but it’s not over yet. I’m still working on her to try to do a duet with me. ... We have to find the right song.

http://www.telegram.com/article/2009020 ... 90378/1102

[Bud]

Isn't Barbra known to be rather difficult if she doesn't get her way??

[scielle]

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/shinan/archive/2009/03/31/shinan-govani-diana-krall-and-barbra-streisand-diva-is-as-diva-does.aspx

Shinan Govani: Diana Krall and Barbra Streisand: Diva is as diva does

Diana Krall. Her voice loops, famously wanders. But is it any match for the arc that has been her life over the last decade?


For one, she shares a Vancouver bed with Elvis Costello that they, in turn, share with their twin boys, “because,” as she reveals in a new interview, “we all, at some point, end up in the same bed.” Secondly, she’s bunking, these days, with Barbra Streisand — on the latter’s new album!


The woman who famously would not change her nose has met her songsmith match, they’re saying. The album, Krall tells the upcoming Chatelaine, is a combination of standards and bossa nova and hard-core hip hop. Actually, I made that last bit up. Standards and bossa nova, yes! Plus, some “very challenging adult songs.” Challenging? Even for One of the Greatest Singers of All Time? That’s what Krall says.


Goes on Ms. Nanaimo about the stupendous Streisand: “She worked so hard. We wanted to find songs that were art-meets-commercial, that mean something to her, that tell a story about a woman who is her age, and I think that was accomplished. It’s been quite an extraordinary thing to be part of, and I’m learning a lot.”


One tinge of disappointment that does, though, come sputtering through the pages of this Chatelaine? It’s that, though Krall is hocus-pocusing this album, she’s nowhere to be actually found on it. A duet between the two, one would think, would have been a no-brainer. Right?


“We couldn’t find the right tune,” Krall says. Translation, moi thinks: Ms. Streisand does not sing anything that Ms. Streisand is not 100% into.


Not that one can blame her. This is the way it is, and always has been, for the star of The Way We Were.

[narrow daylight]

http://www.edmontonsun.com/Entertainmen ... 6-sun.html

Diana Krall found herself not only producing Barbra Streisand's new album from last November until this February but also playing piano on the disc which still doesn't have a title or release date.

The two women met ten years ago and when the Nanaimo, B.C., singer became pregnant more recently (her twins are now two and a half years old), Streisand called to say she was getting ready to tour again and needed "some songs to be inspired by."

"And so I sent her some CDs and sent her some music and her manager and her main guy from Columbia, Jay Landers, I think encouraged her and called my management a couple of times," said Krall. "And then we had a meeting about it. And I said, 'Are you interested in doing a record the way I make records? Because this is the only way I know how to make records is we do it pretty much live.' And she was like, 'Yeah, absolutely.' "

Krall said they started listening to music together at Streisand's house and Barbra -- who is a fan of such jazz greats as Shirley Horn and Nancy Wilson -- wound up recording songs like Here's to Life, Where do You Start, Love Dance, and You Must Believe in Spring.

"She did a couple of songs just with piano which I think are just brilliant. And my job is to make sure she's happy and comfortable and inspired in what she's doing. That I'm not taking her out of something that's so far from (her) reality. I'm trying to just like strip things down a little bit."

And while Streisand lived up to her reputation -- "she is tough, she is a perfectionist, all true," said Krall -- the two women had a grand time together both in and out of the studio.

"One of my favourite moments with her was when we played cards," said Krall. "We playing gin rummy together in the studio. We had been planning on playing cards at her house but so far we've watched movies there and things like that."

Still, it seems a shame that they never wound up recording a duet together.

"We were planning on a duet, we were trying to find the right tune, and our schedules are so insane that I don't know when we can find a moment to do that, if we can, then we will, but I don't think it's necessary. I think it's her album. I don't have to be singing on it. And I know some people will say, 'Well, that's not right.' But it's a beautiful album and it's about her."

[Coda]

Thanks, narrow daylight.

[Bud]

Playbill.com: New Streisand Recording, "Love Is the Answer," Due in September

http://bit.ly/10pMZb

By Andrew Gans
22 Jun 2009

The newest solo recording from Barbra Streisand — the actress' first studio collection since 2005 — is due in stores in the fall.

Entitled "Love Is the Answer," the CD will arrive on the Columbia Records label Sept. 29.

The new recording, press notes state, "presents the artist as a cabaret and jazz singer of emotional clarity, depth and maturity, offering the listener a warm and intimate selection of late night meditations on love's powers, heartbreaks and solaces."

The new disc provides Streisand the opportunity to work with Grammy-winning Canadian jazz artist Diana Krall (piano) and her quartet (guitar, bass, drums). Orchestrations were penned by Grammy-winning arranger Johnny Mandel.

Song titles have yet to be announced.

Barbra Streisand starred on Broadway in I Can Get It for You Wholesale and Funny Girl, earning Tony Award nominations for both performances. She received a 1970 Special Tony Award. The actress, composer and director has won two Academy Awards: for Best Actress in a Leading Role in "Funny Girl" and for Best Music, Original Song (with Paul Williams) for the "A Star Is Born" song "Evergreen." Her Grammy-winning recordings are numerous. Streisand is also a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors.