Diana Krall

I wasn't around to experience that myself, but, you know...

Piano playing songstress Diana Krall did it back in 99.

And no wonder.

Let's Fall in Love is just such a terrific and versatile song.

really i

love i love just canadian come on we skate But I remember I skated down one time to Diana Krall's house when we were hanging out back in the day to play Scrabble.

And she's like, you can't do that.

You're going to die.

And I used to send...

Mary Ann Topper, may she rest in peace, the famous manager who managed Diana Krall and Joshua Redman.

She was Kyle Eastwood's manager.

I used to send her postcards of gigs I was doing.

This guy, Rob Heller, an icon in the music business.

This guy, he managed Tony Bennett, Diana Krall, Don Rickles, Michael Bublé, the Smothers Brothers, Natalie Cole, Paul Anka, just to name a few, and Smokey at the time.

So I thought, well, there's kind of really nothing that I could do that would rub this guy the wrong way, given that he's been in the business so long.

He was representing Tony Bennett and Don Rickles in the old Vegas mob days.

So that was an amazing solo show.

It was him and Diana Krall.

They both performed.

She was the opening act with her incredible piano and vocals.

But sort of at the time I was doing it, which was like... 2010-ish, it was very gendered, like kind of a biological essentialist type of gendering.

So this was like the peak of Diana Krall, who's a famous Canadian jazz singer and pianist.

And everyone wanted me to like wear a cocktail dress and long gloves and all this.

And I was like shaving my head and... you know trying to look like I didn't know I didn't even know what was available to me as a performing artist in jazz and so it's funny to like look back on this and really see it as like a part of this story of mine

Yeah.

I think I read Licentious.

This is like the middle part of the novel with Diana.

And I remember the word, this is described as licentious.

Freddie Hubbard first from Blue Spirits in 1968 and The Melting Pot, followed by Sonny Rollins with the track No More from Sonny Rollins with the Modern Jazz Quartet back in 1953.

Onwards we go there with a couple of great jazz vocals, firstly from Diana Krall, then Norah Jones.

Do I love you? Oh my, do I? Honey, did I do? Do I want you? Oh my, do I? Honey, did I do? I'm glad that I'm the one who found you Do I love you, oh my, do I, my dear, did I do? so so I love you, oh my, do I honey, deed, I do Do I want you, oh my, do I honey, deed, I do I'm glad that I'm the one who found you Oh, my, do I, honey, deed I do

The Jazz Session, Friday and Sunday, 9pm until 11pm, with Tony Davenport.

never something i could hide when i see we made it through another day then i say Throw its cover down, won't be again And if I'm right, it's the only way

Those are really superb, aren't they? Got a lovely feel to them.

Diana Krall from A Night in Paris in 2001 and Did I Do, followed by Norah Jones from the Feels Like Home album in 2004 and Sunrise.

Back, though, to our featured artist and album for the show, David Axelrod with Heavy Axe from 1974.

There's a great bass player in Detroit named Paul Keller.

I guess most notably, Paul was Diana Krall's first bass player.

Oh, cool.

Incredible bass player.

And it wasn't until later on when I started, you know, listening, like some, I forget, some of this stuff popped up.

I think it was Diana Krall.

And I don't know a lot about jazz artists, you know, and I only learn about jazz artists by listening to their Christmas albums.

So I had heard, you know, I have this Diana Krall Christmas album, which is amazing.

I love it.

And then it's like, I wonder what one of her regular albums sounds like.

And then you pop it on and it sounds just like her Christmas album, but it's not Christmas.

But that's kind of the thing about jazz that I've discovered.