Fans of Grammy-winning musician Diana Krall will flock to the Filene Center at Wolf Trap on Thursday for a taste of that velvet, effortlessly smooth voice and piano playing that propelled her to stardom almost 15 years ago. Her appearance marks a stop on her 40-city 2012 “Summer Nights” tour.
In an evening filled with the sounds from her tenth studio album, “Quiet Nights,” released in 2009, Krall is joined on tour by guitarist Anthony Wilson, bassist Robert Hurst and drummer Karriem Riggins.
The “Quiet Nights” album, which recalls sultry Brazilian evenings with an anything-is-possible feel, marks an even higher sensual turn to her vocal approach.
“It’s not coy. It’s not ‘peel me a grape, little girl stuff,’ ” she said. “I feel this album’s very womanly.”
| Onstage |
| Diana Krall |
| » Where: Wolf Trap’s Filene Center, 1645 Trap Road, Vienna |
| » When: 8 p.m. Thursday |
| » Info: $50 in-house, $35 lawn; 877-965-3872; wolftrap.org |
Her producer, Tommy LiPuma, understands that sentiment well, having worked with her since 1994.
“She’s completely matured,” he has noted in a recent press release. “Even in the past few years. She approaches her vocal phrasing much more like an instrumentalist than a straight singer. It’s in her reading of the lyrics, and the timbre of her voice, much more misty, like Peggy Lee in her mature period.”
So, in that same “give me fever” mode, Krall oozes sensuality for her audiences, many of which may not even remember when the seductive beat of Brazil’s bossa nova style swept over the world, when bodies would automatically sway to dreamlike hits such as “The Girl from Ipanema” written by Brazil’s Antonio Carlos Jobim.
Krall, along with her friend, Canadian jazz singer Denzal Sinclaire, and her quartet, will present steamy takes on songs such as “You’re My Thrill” and “Where or When,” all infused with the traditional samba rhythms of Brazil, a country she has come to love.
And of the album “Quiet Nights,” where these songs live and are enjoyed by millions of fans, she has said, “It’s a sensual … record, and it’s intended to be that way.”
