Diana Krall - Live at the Montreal Jazz Festival
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Actor: Diana KrallDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Live, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 89 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-11-23
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Verve
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Movie Review: "I Have The Skill Still To Disguise My Tears"
Summary: 4 Stars
"It's such an honor to be here - it's so amazing! This is a very important place for me and a very important international jazz festival. I thank my lucky stars I can play here for you with these great musicians: on guitar Anthony Wilson, on the bass Robert Hurst and on the drums Peter Erskine." ~ Diana Krall ~
This live concert of Diana Krall on the opening night of the 25th anniversary of Festival de Jazz de Montr?al held at Bell Centre in Montr?al, Canada on June 29, 2004 is a showcase of her gorgeous and sultry vocal flair, amazing chops on Steinway grand piano and songwriting skills. Her outstanding musical qualities combined with the incredible talents of the aforementioned back-up musicians are contributing factors that made this live concert a fabulous one. The venue was full-packed and the audiences were very appreciative of the effortless and engaging performances of the Grammy-winning singer/songwriter/pianist and her trio of skilled musicians.
As Diana Krall settles comfortably and takes a seat at her favorite instrument, she exudes a confident persona and displays a terrific stage presence that flawlessly complements the magnificent trio of Wilson, Hurst and Erskine, three of the most creative musicians/soloists the jazz world has ever known.
Out of a dozen performances which include an encore, my top choices are "East of The Sun and West of The Moon," "All Or Nothing At All" and "Abandoned Masquerade," an original song that she co-wrote with "one of her favorite songwriters" who happens to be her hubby, Elvis Costelo. He wrote the lyrics, she wrote the music. What a sweet pair of songwriters they truly are. She sings this song with poignancy and heartfelt emotion particularly these lines...
"I have the skill still to disguise my tears...
...Even though you're suffering
You try to hide it
And pretend you're so nonchalant
You can cry a pool of tears
And sit beside it
Then perhaps you'll know what you want
I hope you'd never feel this much despair
Or know the meaning of that empty chair..."
She shares some tidbits behind her original songs and performed a song that she wrote about the place she came from - Vancouver Island, one of the most beautiful places in British Columbia, where she started writing songs and how important and how inspiring it is for her to be spending time there.
I could have given this a five-star-rating if there were at least more beautiful standards in the repertoire. The material is mostly a display of her original songs that were written with Elvis Costelo. Nevertheless, I still enjoyed it and would gladly recommend it for your viewing pleasure. I also look forward to watching one of her live shows this Spring. I just hope that she will perform some of my all-time favorite songs from The Very Best of Diana Krall and her forthcoming album, Quiet Nights. That would be awesome!
Summary of Diana Krall - Live at the Montreal Jazz Festival
Studio: Uni Dist Corp (music) Release Date: 12/13/2004Diana Krall: Live at the Montreal Jazz Festival is a portrait of an already-accomplished musician in the process of evolving into a great artist. Always a fine jazz pianist, an expressive singer, and a capable interpreter (mostly of the Great American Songbook), Krall spent little time developing an original voice prior to her marriage to Elvis Costello and her CD The Girl in the Other Room, which features multiple songwriting collaborations with Costello as well as more adventurous choices in cover material (Joni Mitchell's "Black Crow," Tom Waits's "Temptation"). That 2004 recording is the centerpiece of this concert; fully nine of the 13 selections here, including the Waits and Mitchell songs as well as five Costello-Krall compositions, were drawn from it. Purists may lament the lessening of the straight-ahead jazz element in Krall's music (indeed, with its simple major chords and countryish lilt, the original "Narrow Daylight" will inevitably invite comparisons to Norah Jones). But Krall and her excellent band still swing mightily (cf. an extended version of the standard "All or Nothing at All") and improvise like the seasoned jazz pros they are. It's a heady combination: Krall is at least as good an instrumentalist as her contemporaries; add to that her singing and now an interest in songwriting that reflects the influence of pop music as well as jazz, and you have a genuinely unique talent. --Sam Graham
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