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Three years later, she recorded her first album. In 1990, Krall moved to New York and began performing regularly with her own trio. While there, she also began studying with Jimmy Rowles, who encouraged her to sing as well as play piano. The legendary bassist Ray Brown had heard Krall in Canada, and he encouraged her to move to Los Angeles to study with him. When she was 17, she played at the Vancouver International Jazz Festival and won a scholarship to Boston's Berklee School of Music.

She began studying the piano at age 4 and had several small jazz groups while in high school. Both her father, who collected jazz records and played a bit of stride piano, and her mother (also a pianist) encouraged her interest in jazz and exposed her to all of the great players.

About a month later, and just two months before her delivery date, Diana and I got together for this session.Ĭanadian pianist, singer and songwriter Diana Krall grew up in a town called Nanaimo on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. It felt so good playing together, so we decided that day that we wanted to do a Piano Jazz session before she had her babies. She was six months pregnant at the time with twins, but she was gracious enough to surprise the audience there with a few tunes before Elvis and I wrapped up the show. I was there doing a live taping of Piano Jazz with her husband, Elvis Costello. At that time, she was just beginning to realize her potential as a singer, and I knew she was going to go far.ĭiana and I met up recently at the 2006 Tanglewood Jazz Festival. She was a shy young thing, but, boy, could she play. Several years later, after she had put out a few CDs, I had her on the show. She was looking for a little career advice. One day, out of the blue, I got a call from her. She'll tell you that she grew up listening to Piano Jazz and A Prairie Home Companion on Saturday nights with her family. Diana Krall first came to my attention when she was still a young piano player in British Columbia.