Diana Krall Concerts Setlist

Diana Jean Krall is a Canadian jazz singer and pianist whose rich contralto voice has charmed audiences worldwide. Born in Nanaimo, British Columbia, she's one of the biggest and most successful jazz stars. Krall's discography includes well over a dozen albums, starting with her 1993 debut "Stepping Out" and continuing through 2020's "This Dream of You," which featured songs she had cut with producer Tommy LiPuma in the years leading up to his death in 2017. Her album "Turn Up the Quiet," released in 2017, won a Juno Award for vocal jazz album of the year. She is the only jazz singer with eight number one first week albums on the Billboard Jazz Albums chart, and was listed by Billboard in 2009 as the decade's second greatest jazz artist.

Having a musical family background, Krall started playing the piano at the young age of four. Her father was an amateur pianist and her mother sang in a local choir, inspiring her early love of music. At 15 years old, she was already a professional performer and played in restaurants locally.

Having won a scholarship to Berklee College of Music in Boston, where she studied 1981-1983, Krall gigged jazz in Los Angeles for a couple of years before returning to Canada in 1992 and recording her first album. In those early days, she met the great bass player Ray Brown, who assisted her immensely; he brought musicians to her.

Krall's artistic peak came with her third album, "All for You: A Dedication to the Nat King Cole Trio" (1996), which made it to the Grammy nomination and stayed on the Billboard jazz charts for a record 70 weeks. Her second "Love Scenes" (1997) soon became a best seller album.

Krall has throughout her career taped with music icons like Paul McCartney, and Ray Charles. She has worked with Grammy-winning producers like Tommy LiPuma, and others, making every effort to make the recordings without forsaking the jazz origins that originally excited her.