Diana Krall
Paul Jarret & Jim Black

The Very Best of Diana Krall came out in 2007. The compilation looked back over 15 years of a fantastic international career. 12 years later, after venturing into pop with Wallflower (2015), Diana Krall has returned to her roots. The proof is Turn Up The Quiet (2017), her fifteenth and last album to date paying a moving tribute to the Great American Songbook tradition. It was produced by Tommy LiPuma, the legendary blues sculptor who, after working with Miles Davis, Al Jarreau and George Benson and just before he passed away (March 2017), spent his time carving out a sound setting for Diana Krall's voice and piano. The Canadian star is not only a strong combo pianist but also a ringleader. Her trademark is still her innate sense of tempo fine-tuned with her mentors Ray Brown and Jimmy Rowles. Slightly deeper than back when she regularly paid tribute to Nat King Cole (e.g. her album All for You from 1996), Diana Krall's smoky tone doesn't always suit jazz classics. From The Girl in the Other Room (2004) onwards, she made original tracks by her husband Elvis Costello her own and a cameo of 60s and 70s pop nostalgia. Today, Diana Krall goes back to basics with classics from I’m Confessin’ to Night and Day.

Line-up : Diana Krall (p, v), Robert Hurst (b), Karriem Riggins (dms) + special guest Joe Lovano (s)

Regular price: 49€

TER Train + concert : 51,40 €

Reduced price : 46 €

15-25 years old price : 30 €

4-14 years old price : 4 €

Crédit photo: © DR

Talents Adami Jazz gives a young musician the chance to work with a world-renowned artist on their dream project then perform it at five major festivals. This year the panel selected the guitarist Paul Jarret with guest drummer Jim Black. The young Parisian (born in 1985) remembers: "One day I borrowed a Jim Black record, AlasNoAxis, by chance. And the album's uncompromising libertarian jazz and grunge sounds deeply affected me and made me what I am." Influenced by rock and electro groups and the current New York jazz scene in equal measure, Paul Jarret creates sometimes barbed music whose melody is always the central theme. He founded the Pj5 quintet and won two prizes at the 2012 La Défense Competition. He regularly visits Sweden where he has founded the EMMA quartet with Scandinavian musicians. As for the Californian drummer Jim Black, he joined the Berklee College in Boston the year that Paul Jarret was born. He'd barely arrived in New York before he created an intuitive and impulsive approach to playing drums (inspired by Bob Moses) behind Tim Berne, Dave Douglas or Ellery Eskelin who regularly appeared on stage at the Knitting Factory or John Zorn's Tonic. The percussionist, a sort of radical extension of Joey Baron or Han Bennink, and guitarist have one thing in common: grunge.

Line-up : Paul Jarret (g), Jim Black (dms), Jozef Dumoulin (p), Julien Pontvianne

Crédit photo: © P. Ito