There's nothing exceptional in this article, and as I said in french, I only post it because of the pics.
Lindsay, if you think you can work on them and make them better, I will send them to you in this case.
Diana Krall
Jazz Appeal
Her warm and swaying voice, her divine compositions have travelled all aorund the world. Recently in Paris for the release of her seventh album, this queen of jazz takes the break without a wrong note. Lesson of harmony.
By Jean-luc Wachthausen.
Traveler without luggage, she came to Paris, between two planes, slightly out, together with her assistant and of her stylist, ready to play the game of promotion. "A little frightened but very excited too" at the idea of making a session of photos for "Madame Figaro" with dresses and accessories which stick on her lifestyle, on iher personal tastes where beauty and inspiration combine, following the example of her music, sweet and sensual.
For this Canadian born in Nanaimo, mining town of British Columbia, the capital is quite, at the same moment, a dream, an Eldorado and an Aladdin's cave. During her last visit, two years ago, the blonde Diana had had just the time to do shopping, what is always good for morale when ones plays the girls of the air during months with, for unique horizon, the stage, a hotel room and the airport's halls.
This time, to please herself and stay in her favourite domain, between smart glamour and innocent sex-appeal, between swing and romance, she chose an attractive pullover Zadig and Voltaire, two dresses Lanvin (one black and one gold), a magnificent coat Saint Laurent and some pairs of shoes she hurried to buy just after the session. Working dresses, in a sense, for this musician who takes up with the tradition of "glamour girls" as Peggy Lee and Julie London. By her physical appearance, first, all in blondness but where we can guess a iron will in her face - a kind of coolness say her detractors. By her voice then, warm, swaying, with a touch of teasing in her phrasé.
Nothing in her childhood would have let augur such an artist's career. Diana starts playing piano at the age of four, studies Bach and Goldberg but listens, on her parents 78 LP record player, to Nat King Cole and Billie Holiday. At seventeen, after having played in bars for raging hockey players, Diana Krall obtains a scholarship for the famous musical college of Berklee, in Boston. Three years later, she is in Los Angeles, spoiled by pygmalions like bassist Ray Brown (Ella Fitzgerald's ex-husband) and pianist Jimmy Rowles, who accompanied the biggest stars- Julie London, Billie Holiday and even Marilyn Monroe. The beautiful Clint Eastwood will compose her a song "Why Should I Care?" (For his film "True Crime"), so that she goes out of the anonymity and publishes in autumn 2001, just after the attacks of September, 11th, "The Look Of Love". An album of peaceful and silky ballads, recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra and sold to more than four million copies in the world. On September 13th, in Paris, she plays and sings with a lump in her throat, "I Love Being Here With You", striking like a nutcase on her piano, by anger, by impotence, by resentment in front of the tragedy. It is the occasion to discover the human qualities of the musician who admits: " the piano is my preferred instrument, and the jazz my natural language. " Patience will be necessary before Diana Krall, whose model is Ella Fitzgerald, is considered as the actual best pianist and a jazz singer. Her new album, The Girl in the Other Room, the seventh, allows her to illustrate the area of her inspiration. We find standards signed by Joni Mitchell, Tom Waits and... Elvis Costello, the man of her life, who has the chic to stick words on her music. Their meeting during a concert turned in love at first sight. The English rocker found in her a sort of muse who floods him with pages of writing, with memories of childhood that he restores in form of poems. No doubt, Diana Krall made her capsize his heart, she who dreams by her music only " to raise the spirit and weave links of love with the public ".
Talk about looking sexy without even trying! Geez! That Lanvin dress is too die for. It's perfect for her. Now, why didn't she wear THAT to the Oscars? Speaking of which, doesn't she look like some fantastic, moody art-house actress in these photos? Great stuff, Remi. Ah, where was that waiting room again? 
