Hamilton Place Theatre, Ontario (CAN), March 3, 2013

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HECFI announced Monday that Diana Krall and her Glad Rag Doll tour will stop at Hamilton Place Theatre on March 3. Krall’s latest release “Glad Rag Doll” is out this week. Tickets to the March concert go on sale Friday, Oct. 5, 10 a.m. Reserved seating is $110, $95 and $75 plus applicable service charges and venue fees, available at Copps Coliseum Box Office, TicketMaster outlets or by phone 905-527-7666.

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A fine blend of old … and not so old

Diana Krall likes to talk up the old-timey aspects of her current tour to support her latest CD, Glad Rag Doll.

For sure, Krall played plenty of old nuggets dating back to the 1920s and ’30s in her two-hour performance at Hamilton Place on Sunday night.

She had the stage decked out with Vaudevillian antiques, including her father’s old gramophone record player, which sat in a prized place atop a table at stage left. Video and still photo collages, stretching back to the days of the Ziegfeld follies provided a backdrop to Krall and her five-piece band.

She even sang the new album’s title track, Glad Rag Doll (1928), while seated at a beautifully preserved Peerless upright piano.

Songs such as the gospel-tinged Let It Rain (1928), Sunny Side Of The Street (1930), Just a Butterfly That’s Caught in the Rain, and We Just Couldn’t Say Goodbye hearkened back to the songbooks her grandparents had stacked up around the piano at their home in Nanaimo, B.C., when Krall was growing up.

It was all very sentimental, just like the Betty Boop cartoon footage that played to the near-capacity crowd of more than 2,000 shortly before the concert started.

The highlight of Sunday’s show, however, was found in the more contemporary songs Krall performed from the books of Neil Young, Tom Waits and Bob Dylan. These, after all, were the songs with which Krall, 48, grew up.

While the grandparents were upstairs singing along with the music of Teddy Wilson, Harry M. Woods and Bix Beiderbecke, the teenage Krall was in the basement listening to her records — Harvest, Blood On The Tracks and Rain Dogs. Let’s face it, you can’t grow up in a logging town such as Nanaimo listening to nothing but modern jazz, especially when you’re playing in bars known more for the size of their TV screens than the quality of their pianos.

It was a delight to see Krall and her band rock out to Dylan’s free-form boogie Subterranean Homesick Blues. It may have caught some of the jazz lovers in the audience by surprise, but it was great to watch Krall standing up and pounding away at the keyboard while band member Aram Bajakian let rip a fiery guitar solo interlaced with Stuart Duncan’s electric violin.

Ditto for the band’s rendition of Waits’ Temptation and the dirgelike pace Krall set for the Dylan ballad Simple Twist Of Fate.

Even some of the old-timey songs were given rocked-up treatments by Krall.

“This song was first recorded by Bing Crosby, although I don’t think he’d recognize it,” Krall said in introducing There Ain’t No Sweet Man That’s Worth The Salt Of My Tears, which contained another barn-burning solo by Bajakian.

At the antique Peerless piano, Krall followed Glad Rag Doll with a heartfelt cover of Neil Young’s A Man Needs A Maid, with a couple of verses of Heart Of Gold thrown in for good measure.

Plus, she gave us a particularly ominous version of Doc Pomus’s Lonely Avenue, as well as a raucous treatment of Betty James’s early ’60s R&B hit I’m a Little Mixed Up.

Krall’s onstage energy was all the more surprising since she was not fully recovered from an upper respiratory infection that forced her to reschedule two shows last week in Buffalo and Kingston.

“I’ve go a snotty nose,” she confessed before leading the band in Simple Twist Of Fate.

Despite the flu bug, Krall was remarkably chatty and personable, although at times scattered.

“It must be the antibiotics,” she said, in the middle of one rambling tale.

Somewhere inside Krall’s jazz persona, beats the heart of a rock ‘n’ roller.

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Neil Young’s A Man Needs A Maid?

Nice. Would love to hear it.

Also from the Harvest LP, I've always thought "Out On The Weekend" would be a good one for DK to cover.

From the review: "Somewhere inside Krall’s jazz persona, beats the heart of a rock ‘n’ roller"

I've known this since the very first time I saw her live: Yoshi's (Oakland), New Year's Eve 98/99. Diana and Russell (Malone) rocked the hell out of that room. I remember turning to Mrs Mapache and saying "THIS blows Peel Me A Grape away."