Diana Krall was born in Nanaimo, B.C., more than 11,000 km from Brazil and the bossa nova music that inspired her latest album, Quiet Nights. The 44-year-old singer-pianist started tinkling the ivories as a toddler and was gigging locally by her mid-teens. Her third album, 1996’s All for You: A Dedication to the Nat King Cole Trio, spent 70 weeks on Billboard’s Traditional Jazz chart and earned a Grammy nomination. By the end of the ’90s, with the Grammy-winning single “When I Look in Your Eyes,” Krall was an international star with crossover appeal rare to the jazz world. This decade has been just as steady, beginning with the number-one hit “The Look of Love” and concluding with her 10th and latest studio album, Quiet Nights. In this exclusive interview, Krall talks about Brazil’s musical heritage, what to do in Rio and where she loves to perform.
Diana Krall’s Latin love letter.
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Diana Krall has called this 10-song collection (plus two bonus tracks) a love letter to her husband, pop intellectual Elvis Costello. But anyone similarly smitten can apply these sentiments to their own life. True to album’s title, Krall slips seductively though the door with a breathy vocal over the orchestra for the first track, “Where or When.” The rest of the album — including “The Boy From Ipanema,” a gender-switched cover of the bossa nova classic — is arranged and delivered with a similar romantic vibe, making Quiet Nights the perfect soundtrack to, well, a quiet night in.
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