Whanganui Chronicle
  • Whanganui Chronicle home
  • Latest news
  • Sport
  • Business
  • Opinion
  • Lifestyle
  • Property
  • Death notices
  • Classifieds

Subscriptions

  • Herald Premium
  • Viva Premium
  • The Listener
  • BusinessDesk

Sections

  • Latest news
  • On The Up
  • Sport
  • Business
  • Opinion
  • Lifestyle
  • Property
    • All Property
    • Residential property listings
  • Rural
    • All Rural
    • Dairy farming
    • Sheep & beef farming
    • Horticulture
    • Animal health
    • Rural business
    • Rural life
    • Rural technology

Locations

  • Taranaki
  • National Park
  • Whakapapa
  • Ohakune
  • Raetihi
  • Taihape
  • Marton
  • Feilding
  • Palmerston North

Media

  • Video
  • Photo galleries
  • Today's Paper - E-Editions
  • Photo sales
  • Classifieds

Weather

  • New Plymouth
  • Whanganui
  • Palmertson North
  • Levin

NZME Network

  • Advertise with NZME
  • OneRoof
  • Driven Car Guide
  • BusinessDesk
  • Newstalk ZB
  • Sunlive
  • ZM
  • The Hits
  • Coast
  • Radio Hauraki
  • The Alternative Commentary Collective
  • Gold
  • Flava
  • iHeart Radio
  • Hokonui
  • Radio Wanaka
  • iHeartCountry New Zealand
  • Restaurant Hub
  • NZME Events

SubscribeSign In

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.
Home / Whanganui Chronicle / Lifestyle

Music Review: Diana Krall, Turn Up the Quiet

By Tony Nielsen
Hawkes Bay Today·
31 May, 2017 10:00 PM2 mins to read

Subscribe to listen

Access to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.
Already a subscriber?  Sign in here

Listening to articles is free for open-access content—explore other articles or learn more about text-to-speech.
‌
Save

    Share this article

Diana Krall. Pic supplied to NZH TimeOut NZH 27Oct12 - The Vaudeville songs on Krall's new album are close to her heart. HBG 04Feb15 - WALLFLOWER: Diana Krall's new release is a covers alb

Diana Krall. Pic supplied to NZH TimeOut NZH 27Oct12 - The Vaudeville songs on Krall's new album are close to her heart. HBG 04Feb15 - WALLFLOWER: Diana Krall's new release is a covers alb

The first word that comes to mind after a few listens to the new Diana Krall album Turn up the Quiet is swing.

This record has that elusive musical element in spades. While Krall herself deserves an honourable mention for that achievement, so too do her bandmates, notably guitarists Russell Malone, Anthony Wilson and Marc Ribot, and bassist extraordinaire Christian McBride.

Occasionally one hears critics opine that Krall is a little bland. Well definitely not so on this set of songs, as she brings nuanced vocals, stretches words and phrases and stamps her individuality on even the most familiar of tunes.

There's a good mix of both material and settings on Turn Up the Quiet, with small group workouts to lush orchestrations on Cole Porter's Night and Day, and on Dream and Sway.

Our own Kiwi-born musician Alan provides the orchestrations as a writer, arranger and conductor, a combination with Krall which really pays off.

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.
Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

The small combo songs are really appealing, with either Ribot or Malone or guitar, and a very tasty fiddle workout on I'm Confessing (That I Love You).

This approach tackles Like Someone in Love, Moonglow, No Moon At All, Dream and I'll See You in My Dreams. Standouts. Every one.

I can't deny that I've been a long-time fan of Krall's and seeing her live in Christchurch a few years back demonstrated even moreso that my appreciation of both her vocals and her skills from the piano stool were more than justified. Turn Up The Quiet, her 14th album, raises the bar and again shows us why 15 million album sales are no accident.

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

Rating 5/5 stars

Save

    Share this article

Latest from Lifestyle

Premium
OpinionGareth Carter

Gareth Carter: Growing potatoes in Whanganui

Premium
OpinionGareth Carter

Gardening: Pruning deciduous fruit trees and roses

Premium
Lifestyle

Gareth Carter: My favourite flowering plants for winter cheer


Sponsored

Solar bat monitors uncover secrets of Auckland’s night sky

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

Latest from Lifestyle

Premium
Premium
Gareth Carter: Growing potatoes in Whanganui
OpinionGareth Carter

Gareth Carter: Growing potatoes in Whanganui

COMMENT: Get started early to make the most of growing season.

11 Jul 04:00 PM
Premium
Premium
Gardening: Pruning deciduous fruit trees and roses
OpinionGareth Carter

Gardening: Pruning deciduous fruit trees and roses

04 Jul 04:00 PM
Premium
Premium
Gareth Carter: My favourite flowering plants for winter cheer
Lifestyle

Gareth Carter: My favourite flowering plants for winter cheer

27 Jun 05:00 PM


Solar bat monitors uncover secrets of Auckland’s night sky
Sponsored

Solar bat monitors uncover secrets of Auckland’s night sky

06 Jul 09:47 PM
NZ Herald
  • About NZ Herald
  • Meet the journalists
  • Newsletters
  • Classifieds
  • Help & support
  • Contact us
  • House rules
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of use
  • Competition terms & conditions
  • Our use of AI
Subscriber Services
  • Whanganui Chronicle e-edition
  • Manage your print subscription
  • Manage your digital subscription
  • Subscribe to Herald Premium
  • Subscribe to the Whanganui Chronicle
  • Gift a subscription
  • Subscriber FAQs
  • Subscription terms & conditions
  • Promotions and subscriber benefits
NZME Network
  • Whanganui Chronicle
  • The New Zealand Herald
  • The Northland Age
  • The Northern Advocate
  • Waikato Herald
  • Bay of Plenty Times
  • Rotorua Daily Post
  • Hawke's Bay Today
  • Viva
  • NZ Listener
  • Newstalk ZB
  • BusinessDesk
  • OneRoof
  • Driven Car Guide
  • iHeart Radio
  • Restaurant Hub
NZME
  • NZME Events
  • About NZME
  • NZME careers
  • Advertise with NZME
  • Digital self-service advertising
  • Book your classified ad
  • Photo sales
  • © Copyright 2025 NZME Publishing Limited
TOP