Diana Krall

Diana Krall sharpened her global profile with When I Look in Your Eyes (1999), pairing lush Johnny Mandel orchestrations with a cool, controlled swing that pushed jazz back into the mainstream. She doubled down on that momentum with The Look of Love (2001), a platinum-selling, top-10 Billboard release that proved intimacy could still dominate a loud, pop-driven era.

By the early 2000s, Krall had taken her sound worldwide, capturing the heat of her stage presence on Live in Paris. After marrying Elvis Costello, she pivoted creatively—trading pure standards for confession and bite on The Girl in the Other Room (2004), her most personal record to date. It marked a turning point: Krall as songwriter, not just interpreter.

From there, she refused to stay comfortable. She drifted into bossa nova shadows on Quiet Nights, rewired vintage jazz with T Bone Burnett on Glad Rag Doll, and stripped modern pop classics bare on Wallflower. Collaborations with Ray Charles, Paul McCartney, Tony Bennett, and Barbra Streisand reinforced her status as a musician trusted by legends.

Later releases like Turn Up the Quiet and This Dream of You—completed after the death of longtime producer Tommy LiPuma—leaned into restraint, space, and emotional gravity. By 2024, touring with Sebastian Steinberg and Matt Chamberlain, Krall remained exactly where she thrives: understated, uncompromising, and impossible to drown out.