Diana Krall Tickets
All Concerts
GATINEAU, Canada
Overall Rating
3.3
By Bojang
Okay but not memorable
I was a bit disappointed, I hoped to hear her sing and play but each member of the backup band usually played long solos, taking up much of the evening.
By cnjones
Diana Krall @ Smart Financial Centre
This was a great concert and I enjoyed it thoroughly. The venue is very nice (my first time there). It is very clean and well maintained, lots of food and drink options available, plenty of parking, etc. The concert started 15 minutes late. I enjoyed all the music, but I really wanted to hear her sing more than anything else. All the musicians are fantastic, but I don't think it was necessary to have each musician (bassist, drummer, guitar, violin) do an extended solo on almost every song.
By Randy1NC
A Tad disappointing
Outstanding performance by the Grammy winning artist, BUT the show did not live up to expectations in terms of promoting the current album. Dubbed "the Wallflower Tour," only four tracks from the latest release were performed during the show. Ms. Krall was in TOP FORM, and she had assembled a powerhouse band, but the overemphasis on OLDER material was a definite minus. The crowd reaction to "California Dreaming," Jim Croce's "Operator" and "Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word" should have clued her in to how EXCITED most of us were to hear NEW MATERIAL. The reinterpretation of Tom Waits' "Temptation" was overlong, and I noticed many of my neighbors fidgeting in their seats or playing with their smartphones. After the show, my party agreed Temptation could have been scrapped and replaced with a tight medley of tunes from the current album.
By VegasGuy1
Too quiet for this rocknroller
Diana Krall is an excellent musician and her band is top rate too but for someone more used to the intensity of rock n roll her quiet music was putting me to sleep. The audience was enjoying it and she is very good at what she does,I'm just used to more adrenilene at my concerts
Bio
DIANA KRALL IN CONCERT
Born in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Diana Krall grew up on Vancouver Island in the western part of Canada and began studying the piano when she was four years old. By the time she was 15, she was playing jazz in local restaurants and bars.
Ms. Krall was still a teenager when she was awarded a scholarship to the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston. After two years in Boston she moved to Los Angeles, where she first me her Jazz influences, including John Clayton, pianist/singer Jimmy Rowles, and Ray Brown, the legendary bassist who served as her musical mentor (and played on Only Trust Your Heart). Ms. Krall had lived in Los Angeles for three years when she then moved to Toronto, and it was a Canadian label that gave her a chance to record for the first time. In 1993, the Montreal-based Justin Time Records released her debut album, Stepping Out. In 1994, she signed with GRP and recorded Only Trust Your Heart, which featured Brown on bass and Stanley Turrentine on tenor saxophone and marked the beginning of her association with Tommy LiPuma (who has worked with everyone from Barbra Streisand to George Benson).
Diana Krall is the only jazz singer to have eight albums debut at the top of the Billboard Jazz Albums chart. To date, her albums have garnered five Grammy® Awards, 10 Juno® Awards and have also earned nine gold, three platinum and seven multi-platinum albums. Krall's unique artistry transcends any single musical style and has made her one of the most recognizable and beloved artists of our time.